VS Kemanis Books in Order

Sixteen stories examine the bonds and conflicts shaping family life, from a hidden past to the pressures of raising a disabled child. Children and adults navigate grief, estrangement, and unexpected connections that unsettle their understanding of one another.

Seventeen stories follow women confronting the limits others place on their lives and the boundaries they set themselves. Scientists, musicians, and performers face professional setbacks and personal losses while seeking fulfillment, independence, and ways to continue.

Newly assigned to financial crimes, prosecutor Dana Hargrove is pressured to recruit her banking friend as an informant. When a money-laundering investigation implicates the friend's husband, Dana secretly investigates while weighing professional obligations against personal loyalty.

In 1994 New York, prosecutor Dana Hargrove juggles a demanding murder trial with concerns about her young child's caregiver. A nighttime call during her on-duty homicide rotation brings another investigation dangerously close to her family life.

New trial bureau chief Dana Hargrove faces a murdered fashion designer and an innocence project's challenges to old convictions. A subpoena interrupts her planned family vacation, drawing her into questions that threaten her professional reputation and past decisions.

Eleven stories explore relationships in which love and criminal behavior become entangled. Marriages, professional ambitions, and hidden desires bring ordinary people close to danger, exposing the self-deception and compromises beneath their apparently familiar lives.

A student's body is found in the icy Hudson River as Dana Hargrove begins leading Westchester's district attorney's office. When her own children become entangled in another criminal inquiry, public outrage tests her balance between professional ethics and family loyalty.

Twelve selected stories follow people whose ordinary relationships conceal difficult choices and unexpected dangers. Family tensions, personal ambition, and encounters with crime reveal the distance between how characters understand themselves and what their actions disclose.

Former prosecutor Dana Hargrove now serves as a Manhattan trial judge, handling prominent cases while adjusting to an empty nest. Anonymous letters begin targeting her family, suggesting that someone from her long career is watching and seeking revenge.

Appellate judge Dana Hargrove confronts disputed medical treatment, unethical officials, and an unsolved murder during the pandemic. False allegations against her son and conflicts within her family complicate her efforts to separate legal duty from personal loyalties.

Raised by her Vietnam veteran father, Caty Robertson knows little about her absent mother. Searching secretly for the truth about her parents’ relationship, she struggles to understand their past without hurting the man who raised her.