“The Lily Trilogy is a remarkable series that explores some of the greatest joys and deepest sorrows of life. I am still blown away by how profoundly each of these books has touched me … Chances are very good you will find yourself easily able to identify with the complex inner workings of these people, these families, and that you will find in one or more of the situations something that speaks so perfectly to your own suffering that tears seem like the only possible release.”
— Trisha Niermeyer Potter, Prints of Grace, The Catholic Company review


Until Lily

Book 1

Bev Greeley could have never predicted that the burden she tried to cast off long ago would become her only source of joy in her final days. Until Lily is a moving book, rich in the universal struggles we all face, illuminated by Bev’s contrite reflection on the life chosen for her — a life filled with the strife, chaos, tragedy, loss, laughter, redemption and deep meaning possible only when you hand yourself over to love.


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Wherever Lily Goes

Book 2

Terry Lovely isn’t expecting any great rewards for her decision to uproot her family, move halfway across the country and take care of her sister Lily, who has Down Syndrome. What Terry will eventually discover, however, is that Lily will give more than she will ever take, including a certain something Terry doesn’t even know is missing.


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Life Entwined with Lily’s

Book 3

A dark day in Beth Lovely’s past casts a mournful shadow over her entire future. And although Beth has revealed her unspeakable secret to no one, her Aunt Lily is unwittingly responsible for a resuscitating breath of new hope. And so continues the unpredictable and moving tale of Lily’s impact on generations to come.


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The Things Lily Knew

Book 4

A brilliant Rhodes Scholar whose love life is torn in threes, Annabel Greeley is not lacking in wit or intellect. But when the accomplished geneticist is faced with a decision that will change, not only her life, but the future of humanity, the answers elude her. She is hounded by the ever-present and unavoidable fact that she would not be alive if it weren’t for her Aunt Lily, who happened to have Down syndrome and, seemingly, all of life’s answers. Annabel’s life is about to change in profound and paradoxical ways as she sets out in search of the things Lily knew.


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Things Unknown to Lily

Book 5

Charlotte was willing to accept whatever suffering came her way, just to be with the man she loves. But she could never have foreseen how difficult it was going to be to weather the louring tempests of her husband’s depression. Mystified by why her devotion is not enough to make John happy, she carries the burden of his sadness, unaware that it is a long-ago secret, kept from his aunt Lily, that prevents him from surrendering to the joy born of true love. Healing is about to come from a most unlikely place, as it often does with anyone who has known Lily and grows to understand that something quite unexpected can change everything.


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A Little Like Lily

Book 6

The Lily Series concludes with this moving story told by Daisy, who has Down syndrome and is adopted into Lily’s family. Brokenhearted that her cousin is getting married, Daisy runs away from the wedding and gets lost in the streets of Boston. Her journey back home reveals the harshness and sorrows of the “Valley of Tears” through which we all walk, as well as the compassion that swells within the human heart when it is moved by the desire to alleviate the suffering of others.


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THIS IS HOW LILY CAME TO BE: One night, when I was tucking in my daughter who has Down Syndrome, I had a flash forward. I saw my Teresa, all grown up, tucking in an elderly woman, whose loneliness was dispelled by the sweetness of Teresa’s exuberant kiss on the cheek and her meticulous placement of covers around a set of frail, aching shoulders in a careful effort to fend off the chill. I felt a great joy as I realized that the old woman is the future me. I began to contemplate what might have been if my husband and I had come up with a different answer the day our adoption counselor called and asked if we would consider adopting a newborn baby girl with Down Syndrome. I imagined an alternate universe in which there lives a woman who said no and remains unaware of what she missed. And in still another alternate existence of my imagining, there is a woman who said no, but was over-ruled. This woman grudgingly accepted and endured, and in the end, understands the magnitude of the gift that has been forced upon her. That third universe is the one where Lily lives, carrying out her life in illuminating moments that testify to the inherent, limitless and unmatched value of every human soul.
–Sherry Boas

The Lily Trilogy is a remarkable series that explores some of the greatest joys and deepest sorrows of life. I am still blown away by how profoundly each of these books has touched me … Chances are very good you will find yourself easily able to identify with the complex inner workings of these people, these families, and that you will find in one or more of the situations something that speaks so perfectly to your own suffering that tears seem like the only possible release.
— Trisha Niermeyer Potter, Prints of Grace, The Catholic Company review

“masterful”
“riveting”
“truly beautiful”
“heart-wrenching”
“made for our times”