Books by Lyn Baird

Stories of wisdom and belonging

From the novels in development to the stories already finding their way into the world.

Wisdom’s Unbroken Thread

A quartet taking shape

Four women. Four elements. One thread that will not be broken.

When Roslyn begins uncovering the stories of women whose voices were nearly lost, their lives unsettle everything she thought she knew about faith, love and belonging. To bring their voices into the light, she must find the courage to trust her own.

A historical fiction series exploring forgotten voices, enduring wisdom and the ancestral threads that connect generations—following family stories spanning Scotland, Ireland, nineteenth-century New York, Australia and New Zealand.

Told across braided timelines, each novel brings Roslyn’s present-day journey into conversation with women from the past whose stories have been silenced, forgotten or reduced to fragments. As their lives begin to emerge, the thread of Wisdom draws past and present together.

These are stories of women finding their voices—and of the men who have the courage to stand beside them as they do.

Conceptual cover of The Water Remembers

Book Two · Water · Heart

The Water Remembers

“Across the water, the heart remembers.”

At sixteen, Sarah crosses the ocean towards a life she did not choose. She leaves behind familiar places and people, carrying love, grief and questions she has no words for yet. In a new country, she must discover how to belong without forgetting where she came from.

Generations later, Roslyn follows the traces Sarah left behind. The records tell her where Sarah travelled, but little of what it cost her to leave or whom she longed to hold close. As Roslyn listens for the woman within those fragments, she begins to recognise the ways she has carried love as a duty. Sarah’s story asks her a difficult question: can she care deeply for others and still make room for her own heart?

In development

Conceptual cover of The Wind Decides

Book Three · Wind · Soul

The Wind Decides

“Not every story is hers to carry.”

Mary’s story carries the echoes of Glencoe—stories of loyalty, betrayal, blessing and curse. Some are spoken aloud. Others survive as silences within a family, passed on until no one remembers where they began.

Roslyn follows those silences into her own spiritual life. She has spent years seeking certainty, yet Mary’s story asks her to stay with questions that have no simple answer. She begins to wonder whether an old fear can sound like guidance, and whether letting it go might make space for Wisdom. To move forward, Roslyn must discern what is hers to carry and what belongs to the past. The wind cannot make that choice for her. It can only call her to listen.

In development

Conceptual cover of The Oak Calls

Book Four · Earth · Body

The Oak Calls

“The life waiting for her is the one she must finally dare to choose.”

Born in New York, Kate Mayer Harris crosses the Atlantic and builds a life for her family in Ireland. She bears nine children in ten years, then dies in Wales at thirty-seven. What remains in the records tells Roslyn much about where Kate lived and little about how it felt to inhabit that life.

Roslyn cannot know what Kate might have chosen for herself. Following Kate’s story, Roslyn begins to ask what it means to feel at home in her own life. Her body has its own truth to tell, even as the people she loves and the land around her call for care. She must find a way to live what she has learned, with room for herself among all that she chooses to tend.

In development

Cover artwork shown is conceptual and may change prior to publication.

Lyn Baird with the Leading Ladies ImpactHer book. Her chapter is Where D’Ye Stay?, launching November.

Anthology contribution · November 2026

Leading Ladies ImpactHer

Lyn’s chapter: “Where D’Ye Stay?”

For forty years, I built a successful career helping others, often placing my own calling aside. Then came the question: “Where d’ye stay?”

Like many women, I had measured my worth by my usefulness. Could I follow the whisper and truly live—or stay where it was safe?

Every new beginning starts with a whisper and a single brave yes.

“Oh Lyn, your Chapter is utterly beautiful — as a living, breathing woman sharing your graceful evolution into wisdom, and as a wonderful writer. In truth, you have blown me away with your lyrical prose as well as with your ability to express succinctly the grand journey of your life as a loving, empathetic woman.”

— Sally Henderson, bestselling Australian author of Silent Footsteps and Ivory Moon

The novels will come when they are ready. Join the Circle for occasional letters from the writing life, glimpses behind Wisdom’s Unbroken Thread, and first publication news.

Published work

Original boxed edition of Serenity Unveiled, a physical set of 55 reflection cards

Serenity Unveiled

55 Reflection Cards for heart, mind and soul

Created as an invitation to pause, reflect and listen more deeply, Serenity Unveiled brings together 55 illustrated reflection cards exploring the questions and seasons we encounter along the way — from courage, gratitude and contemplation to uncertainty, healing and becoming.

Original boxed edition

A limited number of the original boxed sets are currently available in Australia for AU$40 plus postage.

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For UK or international enquiries, please contact Lyn before ordering.

The mountains of Glencoe, mist along the valley