Leah Stewart Books In Order

The Body of a Girl

In Memphis, where the heat clings heavy like a second skin, it has been a summer of murders. Olivia Dale’s job as a novice crime reporter is at once surreal stepping in and out of strangers’ lives with her notebook and all too real. As she looks down on the twisted body of a young woman who has been kidnapped and gruesomely killed, she wonders if she could have been that girl. After all, as she chases the story, she discovers that Allison Avery so all American, so like Olivia in age and looks was just like her except wilder. Drawn deep into the shadows and secrets of Allison’s life, Olivia becomes caught up in exploring her own wild side and finds herself seduced by a perilous world where her life may be in danger. Hypnotic, compelling, and gorgeously written, Body of a Girl is a summer must read.

The Myth of You & Me

When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty nine year old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.

When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he pas*ses away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half.

The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia s friendship as intense as any love affair and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship. Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.

Also available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook

Husband and Wife

Sarah Price is thirty five and happily married. She doesn t feel like she’s getting older, but there are some noticeable changes: a hangover after two beers, the stray gray hair, and most importantly, she s called mom by two small children. Always responsible, Sarah has put aside her MFA in poetry to hold a steady job, which allows Nathan, her husband, to write fiction. Life is sailing along and Sarah believes she and Nathan are truly happy until one day a truth is revealed: not all of Nathan s upcoming novel, Infidelity, is fiction. Suddenly, Sarah s world is turned upside down. Nathan leaves the course of their relationship and the fate of his novel s publication a financial lifesaver in Sarah s hands. Sarah is haunted, almost driven mad, by the questions running through her head: how well does she know Nathan? But more poignantly, how well does she know herself? Nostalgically looking back on her memories, snapshots of the past, Sarah allows herself to mourn her artistic 20 something self and wonder really wonder what happened to her dreams and when it all changed. Pushed from her plateau, Sarah begins to act for the first time not so responsibly on all the things she has let go of for so long: her blank computer screen, her best friend Helen in Austin, the volumes of Proust on her bookshelf, and most urgently, an email pending in her inbox: a note from Rajiv, a beautiful man from her past, who represents her own choice not to have an affair years ago. Sarah s actions take her hundreds of miles away from her marriage on a journey to reclaim the writer she once was and write her own life, one where she can be both responsible and passionate, mother and muse, writer and wife. Full of the wisdom and honesty of THE MYTH OF YOU AND ME, Husband and Wife is a honest, heartbreaking story that reveals it s never too late to step back and start over.