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New York Times bestselling author, motivational speaker and educator

New Novel

Keeper of Lost Children

Available February 10, 2026

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Book cover for 'Keeper of Lost Children' by Sadeqa Johnson. It features a young girl with curly hair sitting at an arched stone window, overlooking a burning building in the distance. The sky is blue with some clouds.

In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.


Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes.

Philadelphia born Ozzie Phillips volunteers for the recently desegregated army in 1948, eager to make his mark in the world. While serving in Manheim, Germany, he meets a local woman, Jelka, and the two embark on a relationship that will impact their lives forever.

In 1965 Maryland, Sophia Clark is given an opportunity to attend a prestigious all white boarding school and escape her heartless parents. While at the school, she discovers a secret that upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity.

Toggling between the lives of these three individuals, Keeper of Lost Children explores how one woman’s vision will change the course of countless lives, and demonstrates that love in its myriad of forms—familial, parental, and forbidden, even love of self—can be transcendent.

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Meet Sadeqa

Sadeqa Johnson is a New York Times bestselling author of six novels. Her previous novel, The House of Eve was an instant New York Times Best Seller, Reese’s Book Club selection, Target Book Club pick, nominated for a NAACP Image Award and a 2023 Goodreads Choice award finalist. Her upcoming novel, Keeper of Lost Children, will be published on February 10, 2026.

Books by Sadeqa Johnson

  • Book cover for 'The House of Eve' by Sadeqa Johnson. The cover features a woman dressed in a vintage blue dress, holding a small black handbag and an orange suitcase. The background shows a large historic building with warm lighting.

    The House of Eve

    Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter.

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  • Book cover for 'Yellow Wife' by Sadeqa Johnson, featuring a woman in a golden yellow dress with vintage styling, standing in a historical setting with a sewing machine in the background.

    Yellow Wife

    Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown, has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.

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  • Book cover for 'Fallen Grace' by Sadeqa Johnson featuring a woman with dark curly hair wearing a green dress against a green background with gold butterflies.

    Fallen Grace

    A single mother in segregated Virginia pushes back on societal prejudice and her own family’s judgment in an emotionally powerful short story.

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  • The book cover of "And Then There Was Me" by Sadeqa Johnson featuring two women with curly hair sitting on a dock looking at a landscape of hills and sky, with a blue circle indicating a special value of $9.99.

    and then there was me

    Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old self across Bea’s twin-sized bed as if they had known each other forever.

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  • Book cover featuring a woman standing by a window, looking outside. She has short, curly hair and is wearing a red sweater.

    second house from the corner

    Felicia Lyons struggles to sprint ahead of the demands of motherhood while her husband spends long days at the office. When the children won’t stop screaming her name or arguing over toy trucks and pretzel sticks, she sometimes wonders what it would be like to get in her car and drive away.

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  • Book cover of 'Love in a Carry-On Bag' by Sadeqa Johnson, featuring a woman packing a suitcase with a pink and purple silk top, bracelets, and a cigarette, with a quote about the author at the top.

    Love in a Carry-On Bag

    Can a long distance love affair really survive? Erica Shaw spends her week babysitting the country’s bestselling authors for one of the top publishing companies in New York City. But on Friday nights she escapes to DC, where her sexy-lipped musician boyfriend, Warren Prince, works and performs.

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