kristina McMorris

Books

Novels
The Ways We Hide

The Ways We Hide

A sweeping WWII tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path, best described as The Alice Network meets The Queen's Gambit.

The Ways We Hide

When We Had Wings

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven novel about a trio of WWII nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival.

Sold On A Monday

Sold on a Monday

A Depression-era reporter snaps a photo of two children being sold on farmhouse porch, leading to his big break—and devastating repercussions for everyone involved.
(Includes some favorite characters from The Edge of Lost!)

The Edge of Lost

The Edge Of Lost

Angela's Ashes meets Shawshank Redemption in a story that begins in October 1937, interweaving the buried past of an Alcatraz inmate with the desperate search for the missing daughter of a prison guard.

The Pieces We Keep

The Pieces We Keep

A young boy's violent, recurrent night terrors unseal a trove of family secrets tracing back to the Second World War, causing a ripple of irreversible consequences.

Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

A promising violinist secretly elopes with her Japanese American boyfriend the night before Pearl Harbor is bombed, forever changing two families torn between sides.

Letters from Home

Letters from Home

At the height of WWII, a Midwestern infantryman falls deeply in love through a yearlong letter exchange, unaware that the girl he's been writing to isn't the one replying.
 
Novellas
Grand Central

Grand Central

Kristina's novella "The Reunion"—one of ten interwoven novellas set at Grand Central on the same day just after WWII—features a female pilot who must come to grips with her tragic past if she is ever to move forward.

The Chrtistmas Collector

The Christmas Collector

In this holiday novella, previously published in the anthology A Winter Wonderland, the daughter of a former hoarder strives for a life of simplicity, until a stranger's secret box of keepsakes forces her to reconsider her values.