The Emerald Sisters Books in Order
Part ofKate Hewitt Books in OrderThis page shows The Emerald Sisters books by Kate Hewitt in order, with short summaries, series background, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 29, 2026
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The Emerald Sisters books in publication order
4 books
The Girl on the Boat
by Kate Hewitt
2024
Fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the *SS St Louis*, Sophie Weiss finds friendship with three other Jewish women and makes a promise that will shape all their futures. It is a gripping wartime beginning.
The Girl Who Risked It All
by Kate Hewitt
2024
Separated from her sister in wartime France, Hannah joins the Resistance and risks everything to save innocent lives. Hewitt gives the story urgency without losing its emotional core.
The Girl with a Secret
by Kate Hewitt
2024
After the *SS St Louis* is turned away, Rosa tries to build a life in England while hiding what she did to survive. Her past will not stay quiet for long.
The Girl Who Never Gave Up
by Kate Hewitt
2025
Rachel's fight to survive the Holocaust becomes even more desperate when she discovers she is pregnant. This is the harshest and most heartbreaking book in the series, and maybe the bravest.
The Emerald Sisters books in chronological order
The Girl on the Boat
by Kate Hewitt
2024The Emerald Sisters, Book 1
The Girl with a Secret
by Kate Hewitt
2024The Emerald Sisters, Book 2
The Girl Who Risked It All
by Kate Hewitt
2024The Emerald Sisters, Book 3
The Girl Who Never Gave Up
by Kate Hewitt
2025The Emerald Sisters, Book 4
Series background & context
The Emerald Sisters is a wartime historical series that begins aboard the SS St Louis in 1939. Four Jewish women, Sophie, Rosa, Hannah, and Rachel, become friends while fleeing Nazi Germany, and Sophie breaks her late mother's emerald into four pieces so they can carry a promise of reunion with them.
That promise drives the whole series. Each book follows one woman into a different corner of wartime Europe, tracing survival, resistance, hiding, internment, love, and impossible choices. The books are connected by friendship as much as blood, and by the question of whether these women will ever find one another again.
Hewitt keeps the scale personal. The history is large and frightening, but each novel stays rooted in a woman's daily fear, hope, and determination. The result is emotional rather than military historical fiction, with a strong thread of courage and endurance.
If you like wartime novels built around female friendship and survival, start with The Girl on the Boat and read straight through.
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