Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| One Summer in Savannah | 2023 | Buy |
| Long After We Are Gone | 2024 | Buy |
| Where the Wildflowers Grow | 2026 | Buy |
Terah Shelton Harris came to fiction writing after a career in other fields, and that sense of a life fully lived before putting words on the page shows in the depth she brings to her characters. Her debut novel, One Summer in Savannah, introduced readers to her way of weaving romantic tension into stories that are really about grief, survival, and the long aftermath of trauma. The book found a wide readership and established her as a writer with a strong sense of place and an understanding of what it costs people to be honest with each other.
Her follow-up, Long After We Are Gone, centered on a family trying to hold together after a shared loss. Harris uses the specifics of Black Southern family life as both setting and subject, and the result is fiction that feels rooted in a particular world while addressing questions about inheritance, memory, and forgiveness that anyone can recognize.
Where the Wildflowers Grow, her third novel, was published in 2026 and extends her run of emotionally layered stories with strong female protagonists navigating complicated personal histories. Readers who come to Harris through any one of these books tend to find the others, and her growing body of work has positioned her as an important voice in contemporary Southern literary fiction.