If you were drawn to Helena Pelletier’s intimate, conflicted psyche—her fierce competence born in the marsh and her tangled loyalties to Jacob Holbrook—then Dark Places will hook you. Libby Day digs into the truth of her family’s massacre, confronting memories she’s tried to bury the way Helena tries to compartmentalize her childhood. That same raw, internal reckoning that powers Helena’s hunt after Jacob’s prison break fuels Libby’s quest through old wounds and present danger.

If Helena’s hard-won marshcraft—tracking, reading sign, and relying on grit to protect Stephen and the girls—kept you rapt, The River at Night delivers that same visceral fight to endure. After a rafting trip in remote Maine goes catastrophically wrong, Wini and her friends must navigate hostile terrain and predatory humans, echoing the deadly cat‑and‑mouse intensity of Helena stalking Jacob through the backcountry.

If you liked how The Marsh King’s Daughter braids Helena’s childhood in the U.P. wetlands with her present-day pursuit—each chapter deepening the truth about Jacob Holbrook—Our Endless Numbered Days mirrors that structure. Peggy recounts years spent in an isolated forest cabin with her survivalist father, and the unfolding, time‑shifting revelations land with the same steadily tightening dread as Helena’s flashbacks to life under Jacob’s rules.

If Helena’s flinty competence and protective ferocity—whether field-dressing a deer or tracking Jacob after his escape—won you over, Firekeeper’s Daughter offers a kindred spirit in Daunis Fontaine. Rooted in Michigan’s north woods, she leverages her knowledge of the land and community to investigate a deadly threat, channeling the same steel you admired when Helena put her family’s safety above everything.

If the pull of Helena’s choices—using skills learned from a criminal father and crossing lines to shield Stephen and her daughters—was your sweet spot, The Chain hits hard. When Rachel’s child is abducted, she’s forced to kidnap another family’s kid to keep her own alive. That same electric tension of doing the unthinkable for your child echoes Helena’s willingness to hunt Jacob Holbrook through the marsh, no matter the cost.