New York: Simon & Schuster / Gallery Books, (2022). SIGNED - A 10th anniversary updated and expanded edition of Harmel's classic novel which follows a woman who travels from Cape Cod to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother. "At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is nearly depleted. She's running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen. Now, Hope's beloved French-born grandmother Mamie is drifting away in a haze of Alzheimer's. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in WWII Paris. Armed with a scrawled list of names, Hope heads to France to uncover a seventy-year-old mystery with roots in the Nazi occupation. Uncovering horrific tales of the Holocaust, Hope realizes the astonishing will of her grandmother to endure in a world gone mad." SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy!" 349 pp plus a new author's note, recipes and an excerpt from her next novel 'The Paris Daughter.'. ISBN: 978-1982198435.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, 2016. First edition - The author's first novel, a carefully researched coming of age story for young adults, set against the horrors of war. Set in Amsterdam in 1943 where Hanneke spends her days dealing in black market goods - until an older woman asks her for helf in finding a Jewish teenager she had been hiding, "who has vanished without a trace from a secret room. Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such dangerous work, but is ultimately drawn into a web of mysteries and stunning revelations that lead her into the heart of the resistance, open her eyes to the horrors of the Nazi war machine, and compel her to take desperate action." 301 pp plus an author's note on the historical accuracy.