Nicole Trope Books in Order

Police carrying two stretchers out of the Cordell home arrest teenage daughter Juliet for the killing of her parents. As neighbours gossip and an unseen observer gloatingly watches, the narrative peels back what really happened inside a household that looked perfect from the street.

Caroline prides herself on knowing everything about her quiet cul de sac, so she is instantly suspicious of stylish newcomer Amanda and her withdrawn children. As both women guard their secrets, the friendly street becomes the stage for disappearance, betrayal and murder.

A therapist prides herself on listening without judgment until new client Sandy begins describing a marriage that does not quite add up. When Sandy goes missing, the therapist and Sandy’s husband tell competing stories, and the truth about who is being manipulated is slowly revealed.

Grace arrives in overworked executive Ava Green’s office as the ideal assistant, tidying chaos at home and work while becoming indispensable with the children. But Grace has targeted this family for a reason, and her idea of helping does not always look harmless.

When only one of her ten year old twin sons returns from the park, a mother receives a chilling anonymous text insisting her unfaithful husband tell the truth. Trapped by their matching secrets, the couple must act alone to save their missing child.

Grace is determined to protect her adult daughter Cordelia from charming boyfriend Garth, whose interest in Cordelia’s inheritance sets off every alarm. Shadowing the couple and hiding her own violent history, she risks destroying any chance of reconciliation in order to keep her daughter alive.

After a violent argument, a woman’s husband is struck by a car in a rainstorm and left in a coma. While detectives dig into the so called accident, she hides a damning text message and wonders how far someone would go to punish them both.

Andrea’s toddler vanishes from their chaotic kitchen one ordinary afternoon. As police swarm the house, a stranger calls, accusing Andrea of using a photograph of another woman’s missing son online. The accusation rips open a web of lies around Andrea’s seemingly normal family.

Katelyn wakes in a hospital bed after her glamorous thirty sixth birthday party with no memory of the night. Her husband insists nothing happened, yet her instincts scream otherwise, and she must retrace the hours leading up to the collapse of her carefully curated life.

Returning from the grocery store, a mother answers a panicked call from her teenage stepdaughter Shelby: the little girl she was babysitting has vanished. As police pull apart their stories, buried tensions in the blended family explode and everyone becomes a suspect.

Elizabeth finally has the child she always wanted in five year old foster son Joe. During a beachside holiday he disappears from the garden, and a small sandal washes up in the surf. To find him, Elizabeth must confront her controlling husband and her own buried guilt.

Obsessed with winning back the husband she lost, a woman gets a second chance to reenter her old family’s life. But sinister messages and strange noises soon convince her someone is determined to prove she is unstable and take her daughter away for good.

Single mother Beverly has spent eight years hiding the truth about what really happened to Riley’s father. When her eight year old son vanishes from their garden, she must decide whether to reveal her secret to save him, even if it costs everything.

On sweltering Hogarth Street, neighbours sense something is very wrong inside the Wests’ seemingly perfect home. As the hottest day of the year unfolds, a hostage situation behind one locked door collides with the quiet dramas of the people living opposite.

A family getaway to a forest cabin turns into horror when little Theo disappears during a storm. His mother struggles to piece together a night of arguments and betrayal, fearing that bringing her son home will mean exposing a truth she has tried to forget.

Alice appears to have the perfect suburban life, with a devoted husband and three lively boys. But childhood guilt over a little sister she could not save haunts her, and when she senses someone watching, the past threatens everything she loves.

On the surface, a devoted wife and mother has a gentle husband, a small daughter and a safe life. Beneath that calm lies a terrible act from nearly three decades ago. When the past resurfaces, the lies holding her family together begin to crack.

Lydia lets her sixteen year old daughter Zoe leave on a school camping trip, trusting she will be safe. When Zoe is found dead in the mountains, Lydia cannot accept the official story and sets out to uncover what really happened that night.

Six years after her ex husband abducted their son, Megan gets the call she thought would never come: Daniel has walked into a rural police station. Bringing him home is only the beginning as she confronts the damage his father has done.

Claire’s world collapses when her college age daughter Julia dies suddenly far from home. Sorting through Julia’s room, she discovers a box of love letters that suggest a hidden life, and realises the girl she raised was keeping a devastating secret.

A quick stop for milk turns into every parent’s nightmare when Malia leaves her baby in the car and returns to find him gone. As the summer heat builds, a traumatised detective, a wary neighbour and a desperate stranger are drawn into the search.

Best friends Anna and Caro have raised their daughters side by side, until a terrible car accident shatters both families. Over two days at the police station, each woman tells her version of events, exposing long held resentments and dangerous secrets.

Birdy has spent years in prison saving her rage for Rose, the woman who should have protected her as a child and instead looked away. When Rose is jailed for a shocking crime, the two women are finally forced to face their shared past.

Teenager Tara cannot remember the night that left her covered in blood and unable to speak. As her silence intersects with lonely Minnie, troubled Liam and a newborn baby, a single disastrous choice forces buried voices to finally tell the truth.

In this tense short story, a new mother listens to her baby breathing peacefully while a furious man lies on the bed beside them. Trapped in a small domestic space, she weighs an impossible decision to keep her child safe.

After leaving her controlling husband, Liz’s life revolves around protecting her young son, Luke. When ex partner Alex is late returning Luke from an access visit, minutes stretch into hours and Liz must confront the dark secrets inside their broken marriage.

When sex worker Tina follows a client home on a freezing Kings Cross night, she discovers a starving little boy hidden beneath his kitchen table. Her choice to act collides with the grief of the child’s devastated parents and a local cop.