Tanya E Williams

South Dakota, 1948. Bernice has already buried a mother and been abandoned by a father. The orphanage that raised her taught her one lesson she's never forgotten: nobody is coming to save her.

Washington State, 1964. Sixteen-year-old Calla Smith, the oldest of five, is done waiting for her father to notice what her stepmother has turned their home into.

She stopped waiting for her father's blessing. She never stopped wanting his love. Napa Valley, 1960. Sofia Russo is forty years old, alone in her cottage, swirling a glass of Pinot Noir from her own vines. It is, by any measure, extraordinary wine. And almost no one knows she made it. In one...

Louisa Wilson is done hiding from the stage. But is she ready to face what returning to it will cost her? Vancouver, 1927. Five years after their mother's death, Clara and Louisa Wilson are still finding their footing—one sister embraces staying small, the other is counting the days until...

Clara Wilson found the eviction notice. Finding the courage to save her family is another matter. She's seventeen, yet waiting for someone else to act isn't an option—not with her father lost to grief and drink, her sister counting on her, and the ghost of her mother's voice still whispering...

Not all of war's destruction takes place on the battlefield. Becoming Mrs. Smith is a novella told in scenes, not chapters — over fourteen years, the way memory holds onto a life: vivid in places, quiet in between. It carries you back to pre-war, small-town America, where a young couple's love...

Emily Reed keeps her grief just beneath the surface — and any touch to that place leaves a mark. Elizabet Thomas has waited eighty years for a promise that was never kept: that her husband would be there when she crossed to the other side. Now, in this quiet, dual-perspective novel of women's...

In an era determined to silence women, two sisters must decide what it means to be truly seen. Vancouver, 1928. Change is sweeping across Canada as the courts prepare to decide whether women are to be recognized as “persons” under the law. Inside the gilded walls of The Hotel Hamilton, Clara...

Clara doesn't trust the guest in suite 815. Her sister is too busy believing his lies. It's the holiday season of 1927 at The Hotel Hamilton, Vancouver's grandest new address, and Louisa is dazzled—a theatrical debut, a director's promise of Hollywood, everything she's ever wanted within reach...

Secrets age like wine… and this one is ready to be uncorked. Elko, Nevada, 1955. Seventy-six-year-old Meg Bruno has spent decades in quiet exile, keeping the past buried where it belongs. Once known as the infamous Bootlegging Queen, she smuggled sacramental wine during Prohibition—until the...