Tamara Merrill Books in Order

Family members turn to baking as they share memories of love and loss across generations. Familiar recipes and quiet conversations become a way to carry grief, rediscover connections, and find comfort in the rituals that hold them together.

After a painful betrayal, Marylou relies on her outspoken friend Sarah while trying to rebuild her confidence. An unexpected new connection offers the possibility of happiness, but also raises difficult questions as she pieces her life back together.

With World War II over, the Augustus family tries to restore ordinary life without surrendering its carefully guarded secrets. As younger relatives question inherited obligations, the struggle between personal freedom and family loyalty threatens the legacy their elders defend.

In 1960, Elizabeth Augustus abandons college and disappears into San Francisco under an invented identity. While her father hires a detective to find her, the life she builds around deception gradually challenges the family story she fled.

In early twentieth-century Maine, Cora becomes involved with the marginalized families of Malaga Island as prejudice threatens their community. A century later, Georgia O’Brien’s mother needs cancer treatment, exposing ancestry that challenges her family’s understanding of its identity.

Anne believes she has married an ideal man until life with Brian Anderson reveals a frightening private reality. Behind the appearance of a perfect marriage, abuse and secrecy force her to confront the distance between reputation and everyday survival.

Eleven-year-old Harriet spends long stretches alone, finding companionship in two crows while her parents neglect her. Facing the prospect of foster care, she begins to treat killing as a practical solution, promising herself that each death will be the last.

Sarah Blake follows her missing son into snowy woods and wakes days later in a hospital. Her former husband insists their marriage never ended, while an unfamiliar child and contradictory accounts leave her struggling to uncover what happened to her real son.

As war approaches in 1937, the wealthy Augustus family struggles to contain secrets accumulated across generations. Patriarch Walter insists on protecting their reputation, but gossip and conflicting desires threaten the carefully maintained order of marriages, loyalties, and appearances.