Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Summer in Savannah | 2023 | Terah Shelton Harris | Buy |
| 2 | Long After We Are Gone | 2024 | Terah Shelton Harris | Buy |
| 3 | Where the Wildflowers Grow | 2026 | Terah Shelton Harris | Buy |
Terah Shelton Harris writes novels that are slow burns in the best sense: books where the surface story of a romance or a homecoming gradually reveals itself as being about something deeper. One Summer in Savannah draws on the backdrop of Georgia’s coastal city to examine what happens when a woman shaped by tragedy allows herself to be known by someone new. The novel received strong praise for its handling of difficult subject matter without letting it overwhelm the warmth at the story’s center.
Long After We Are Gone shifts the focus from individual grief to the grief a family carries together. A property at the heart of the story becomes a symbol for everything the siblings in the novel are fighting to hold onto, and Harris uses that tension to explore how money, memory, and silence can pull families apart even when love is not in question.
Where the Wildflowers Grow, the third entry in her growing catalog, adds another dimension to Harris’s ongoing interest in what women inherit from their mothers and grandmothers and what they choose to leave behind. Together, these three novels form a body of work that rewards readers who want fiction with genuine emotional stakes and a strong sense of the places and people it describes.