Allison Buccola Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Allison Buccola is an American published author.

She holds a JD from the University of Chicago. She is married and lives in the Chicago suburbs along with her husband and their two children.

Catch Her When She Falls is a 2022 novel from Allison Buccola. In this thriller, you’re going to be turning the pages over and over until you get to the end and finds out what happens! A young lady questions all that she thought that she knew when it comes to the murder that ended up changing her life when she was in high school.

It was just ten years ago that her boyfriend ended up killing her best friend. Micah Wilkes was just a senior in high school when her boyfriend was convicted of the crime of murdering a young girl named Emily, her best friend.

It’s now been a decade later, and Micah is relieved to be finally moving on from this betrayal and loss. She is now the owner of a busy coffee shop located in her small hometown in Pennsylvania, and is all coupled up with a friend from high school, which started from the two of them finding closeness over their shared sorrow.

Micah thought that she had moved on, but then reminders of the past start showing up at her home and work. Now she starts to wonder whether what she knows about her friend’s death is even true. There have been questions that come up on a true crime blog as well as in an online sleuthing forum that make her look closer at the memories she has of that fateful night.

Micah told the investigators the truth, but could there have been a different explanation for her murder? Was it a former classmate, a stranger in the woods, or even Joshua, her younger brother who hadn’t been even seen since the death of his sister?

Micah goes even further into the case, and as she does, she can sense that her grip on reality is getting looser, and her behavior is getting even stranger, more unhinged and secretive. She is trying to put together the truth about what happened on that night a decade ago, wondering how things went so massively wrong and wondering whether she might be the next to disappear to. Read this book to find out what happens in a thriller that you won’t want to miss!

The Ascent is a 2025 novel from Allison Buccola. A woman who spent her younger years growing up in a cult has to figure out if she is able to trust a stranger who has shown up who claims to have answers to all of the dark mysteries of her childhood.

Two decades ago, the members to a commune outside of Philadelphia that was fairly reclusive went missing without a trace. Their disappearance is a mystery that has yet to be solved. There were never any verified sightings of the members, and their bodies were never found. However, the group left one thing, which was a 12 year old girl who was found wandering on the road looking for her lost family.

Ever since that morning, Lee Burton has spent the years trying to put a painful past behind her. She has come up with a new identity for herself, with a husband who dotes on her and their daughter of seven months, Lucy.

There isn’t anyone in her life now who knows about the connection she has to the missing cult. Not even her husband is aware of it. At the same time, being a new mother is ending up being a larger challenge than she thought it would. She wants to keep Lucy in her sight at all times and can’t go back to work. She isn’t sleeping and is now having thoughts that her daughter will be harmed.

When a stranger shows up on her doorstep, giving her the chance to answer the questions that she has about her past, it is unexpected. If she can trust that the woman is even who she says she is, that is. Going a little bit more into the history of the woman, the stable life that she has constructed could end up shattering.

Will Lee end up pushing the limits just so she can have closure? Is this woman really who she says she is? Read this fascinating book to find out– grab a copy of The Ascent and find out what happens in this thriller you don’t want to miss.