Prequel · Closed door
The Prosecco Protocol
Three women meet in a service corridor at a Manhattan conference and make the mutual-aid pact that changes every life after it.
Midlife women's fiction
Mid-Life Escapes
Eleven later-in-life novels share one universe. Start with The Prosecco Protocol, then read The Rose Rescue Protocol and The Keeper's Lie for the fullest arc.
The Prosecco Protocol · The Rose Rescue Protocol · The Keeper's Lie
The Prosecco Protocol
Contemporary women's fiction with romance threads. The first of three Mid-Life Escapes sub-series, each built around a different iteration of a women's mutual-aid protocol.
Start with The Prosecco Protocol. Books below are in reading order.
Book 01 · Open door
Santorini Afterglow
Eight months after a twenty-year marriage, Sarah reaches Santorini with ten days to learn how to want again.
Book 02
Costa Rican Bloom
A litigation partner reaches a Costa Rican retreat in her blazer and learns how to say no.
Book 03 · Explicit
Manhattan Lockdown
A blizzard traps a guarded CEO sixty floors up with a security specialist and a coordinated betrayal.
The Rose Rescue Protocol
The second Mid-Life Escapes sub-series. Midlife, found-family novels about the grief and control behind the life you built, and the reckoning that arrives when you finally stop performing it.
Start with Big Sky Reckoning. Books below are in reading order.
Book 01
Big Sky Reckoning
One wine-glass emoji summons five women to a Montana ranch, each carrying a different version of the same wound.
Book 02
January Thaw
Two women answer a distress signal in Newfoundland, where the cold finally breaks open years of endurance.
Book 03
The Saudade Season
Two women reach Lisbon carrying old longing and stop performing the lives that no longer fit them.
The Keeper's Lie
The third Mid-Life Escapes sub-series. Four women, each telling herself a different version of the same lie, and the cost of keeping it.
Start with The Orchard Bargain. Books below are in reading order.
Book 01
The Orchard Bargain
At fifty-eight, the woman everyone leans on returns to a pear orchard and learns how to lean back.
Book 02
The Lisbon Equation
An ambiguous genetic result forces Tess to calculate the cost of staying in the Lisbon life she chose.
Book 03
Night Currents
A coral researcher must weigh an Azores directorship against the Lagos family care her sister has carried alone.
Book 04
Cold Water, Still Water
In her Lagos kitchen, a relentlessly competent wife and mother learns to make room for a life she wants.