Sarah Jio Books in Order

If you want her classic dual-timeline feel: The Violets of March → Blackberry Winter → The Last Camellia.
If you want historical romance with mystery: The Bungalow → All the Flowers in Paris.
If you like Seattle settings and second chances: Morning Glory → Always → With Love from London.
If you want a lighter romantic what-if: The Look of Love → Insignificant Others.

Sarah Jio was born in Seattle in 1978 and has stayed close to the Puget Sound region ever since. She grew up in Poulsbo, Washington, not far from ferries, gray water, and the kind of weather that makes old houses and hidden letters feel right at home.

Writing started early. As a child, she wrote a little book called A Tug Boat's Dream, and by college she was studying journalism at Western Washington University. There was a brief wobble when she drifted toward science and biology, but a journalism professor, Pete Steffens, spotted her on campus and urged her back toward the work she had always wanted to do.

That nudge stuck.

Before novels, Jio built a working writer's life one deadline at a time. She wrote thousands of magazine articles and blog posts, covering food, health, travel, beauty, parenting, relationships, and whatever else the assignment needed. Her byline appeared in places such as Glamour, The New York Times, Redbook, O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Marie Claire, and The Seattle Times, and she also worked as a columnist for Glamour. Magazine work taught her to listen for the small hook in a big subject, the ordinary detail that makes a reader keep going.

Her first published novel, The Violets of March, came out in 2011. It sends a heartbroken writer to Bainbridge Island, where an old diary opens a door into family secrets and a love story from the 1940s. That mix of present-day healing, historical mystery, and a Northwest setting became a useful map for many readers who found her work.

Jio often writes about women who are trying to rebuild a life after something has cracked. In Blackberry Winter, a modern Seattle reporter follows the trail of a missing child from a 1930s snowstorm. The Last Camellia moves between a rare flower on an English estate and a later mystery in the same house, while All the Flowers in Paris links a woman with amnesia to a dangerous wartime story hidden in letters.

The heart of her work is usually a woman at a crossroads.

Some books lean more romantic, some more historical, and some bring in a touch of magical what-if. The Bungalow follows an Army nurse in Bora-Bora during World War II. Goodnight June imagines a bookshop connection to Margaret Wise Brown. Always, With Love from London, and Insignificant Others all circle second chances, old loves, and the stories people tell themselves when life refuses to go as planned.

These are not hard-edged thrillers. They are mysteries of memory, family, timing, and love, with enough unanswered questions to keep the pages moving.

Today Jio lives in Seattle with her husband, Brandon Ebel, their blended family, and two dogs. She has also co-hosted the Mod About You podcast with Ebel. Her books are often shelved as women's fiction or romance, but they tend to borrow from historical fiction and mystery too. Even as her novels have been published in more than twenty-five countries, her fiction keeps returning to familiar anchors: Seattle, Bainbridge Island, bookstores, gardens, old letters, and the strange way one life can brush up against another.