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Cathy Marie Hake Books in Order

This Cathy Marie Hake page shows all her books in order, with quick summaries, related series, and simple guidance on where to start reading.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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Redeemed Hearts

by Cathy Marie Hake

1999

Driven from Ireland by famine, Brigit Murphy comes to America and finds work as a maid in the Newcomb household. When theft makes her the chief suspect, ship captain Duncan Newcomb must choose between family pressure and the woman he loves.

Twin Victories

by Cathy Marie Hake

2000

Hake's debut is a short contemporary inspirational romance about ordinary people facing relationship pressure with faith and honesty. It pairs emotional recovery with the hope of not just one breakthrough, but two hard-won personal victories.

Let Freedom Ring

by Cathy Marie Hake

2001

A patriotic inspirational gift book that celebrates American freedom through Scripture, quotations, and hymn lyrics. It is less a story than a compact collection of reflections on liberty, gratitude, and faith.

Precious Burdens

by Cathy Marie Hake

2002

Emily O'Brien claims that John Newcomb's brother fathered her sister's baby, and John's first reaction is suspicion. Compassion draws him in anyway, and soon poverty, family duty, and growing feeling test them both.

Unexpected Delivery

by Cathy Marie Hake

2002

Wendy Marbury arrives in Caribou Crossing, Alaska, with a seven-month-old baby and a plan that shocks bachelor Ben Hawthorne. As both adults struggle over who should keep little Troy, irritation slowly gives way to tenderness and the possibility of family.

Love Is Patient

by Cathy Marie Hake

2003

Pet shop owner Vanessa is caught off guard when a widower and his young son walk into her store and into her heart. Their growing romance is sweet, but faith and past hurt keep it from becoming simple.

Thank You

by Cathy Marie Hake

2003

A keepsake gift book created for moments when an ordinary card does not feel like enough. Quotes, thoughtful sentiments, and photographic images come together in a warm little book built around gratitude.

Homemade Christmas Cookies

by Cathy Marie Hake

2004

A holiday baking collection filled with cookie recipes, from sugar cookies and gingerbread to chocolate favorites and other seasonal treats. Short inspirational touches make it part cookbook, part Christmas companion.

Mixed Blessings

by Cathy Marie Hake

2004

When Peter Hallock and Marie Cadant discover their three-year-old sons were switched at birth, they agree that marriage might be the best answer for everyone. It sounds practical, until grief, love, and real family bonds make every choice harder.

One Chance in a Million

by Cathy Marie Hake

2004

Miriam arrives in Reliable, California, expecting to help her sister manage children and a busy ranch house, only to learn her sister has died. The Chance brothers want her gone, but Miriam is determined to stay for her neglected nieces.

Ramshackle Rose

by Cathy Marie Hake

2004

Rose is beloved in Buttonhole, Virginia, for her generous heart, even if the town laughs at her untidy ways. When new shopkeeper Garret Diamond uncovers one of her closest secrets, friendship and business begin turning into something more.

The Bible Promise Book for Nurses

by Cathy Marie Hake

2004

This encouraging reference gathers hundreds of Bible verses for nurses facing stress, grief, fatigue, and the daily work of caring for others. It is arranged for quick help, comfort, and spiritual support in the middle of demanding days.

The Restoration

by Cathy Marie Hake

2004

Home from France with deep physical and emotional scars, Russell Diamond retreats to a Virginia coastal village to escape the war. Peace proves elusive when his nearest neighbors are a German widow and her daughter, and bitterness refuses to stay buried.

Celebrate the Season

by Cathy Marie Hake

2005

A small Christmas gift book filled with warm seasonal reflections, uplifting thoughts, and holiday encouragement. It is designed as an easy keepsake for December giving, quiet reading, or adding a little extra cheer to the season.

Last Chance

by Cathy Marie Hake

2005

In Salt Lick Holler, widowed Lovejoy Spencer is trying to protect her younger sister from the kind of marriage that wounded her. This opening Kentucky Chances romance blends family burdens, healing, and a love story that arrives when she least wants it.

Love Worth Finding

by Cathy Marie Hake

2005

Bridal shop owner Della Valentine meets former Navy SEAL Brandon Stevens and feels as if her own fairy tale has finally arrived. But as Brandon's faith deepens, both must face whether love alone is enough to build a life together.

A Handful of Flowers

by Cathy Marie Hake

2006

Dr. Eric Walcott arrives in Reliable, California, ready to improve local medicine, if Polly Chance will stop relying on herbs and blossoms. Their methods clash from the start, but respect and attraction soon complicate the argument.

Bridal Veil

by Cathy Marie Hake

2006

Laurel Chance joins her family's Yosemite journey determined to prove she can handle frontier travel. Their guide, Gabriel Rutlidge, expects frills and weakness, then discovers an artist with grit, faith, and a way of seeing beauty he cannot ignore.

In His Will

by Cathy Marie Hake

2006

Sondra and Dylan's story opens the Oklahoma Weddings collection with a contemporary ranch-country romance. Questions of timing, faith, and commitment keep pulling them together, even as both try to decide what kind of future they can really trust.

Letter Perfect

by Cathy Marie Hake

2006

After her mother's death, accident-prone Ruth Caldwell travels west to meet the father she never knew. Instead she finds a dead man's inheritance, a dangerous mystery, and Josh McCain, who begins to suspect her mishaps are no accidents at all.

No Buttons Or Beaux

by Cathy Marie Hake

2006

April Chance has no idea how courtship is supposed to work, so Peter MacPherson offers to teach her while quietly planning a future of his own. She thinks of him almost like family, until her heart starts saying otherwise.

Spoke of Love

by Cathy Marie Hake

2006

Widowed Garnet Wheelock's planned future in Virginia turns cruel until Samuel Walsh steps in and buys her indenture to rescue her. When accusations over her pregnancy threaten both of them, a marriage of necessity becomes something deeper.

Bittersweet

by Cathy Marie Hake

2007

Laney McCain has loved Galen O'Sullivan for years, but he barely sees the woman she has become. When a pair of troublesome squatters enter their lives, mercy, pride, and one costly lie put both love and trust at risk.

California Brides

by Cathy Marie Hake

2007

This omnibus gathers three Chance family romances set in old California. Healers, artists, and awkward sweethearts each get their turn as frontier life, family ties, and faith shape the way love finally takes hold.

Fancy Pants

by Cathy Marie Hake

2007

Stranded in America after her father's death and her fiance's betrayal, Lady Sydney Hathwell heads to Texas and is mistaken for a male relative. Life on a ranch is hard enough, but keeping her secret may be harder.

Golden Dawn

by Cathy Marie Hake

2007

Living in the Alaskan wilderness with her twin brother, Meredith Smith has turned away plenty of suitors. Then Ian Rafferty offers friendship instead of pressure, and the secret shadowing Meredith's past threatens the hope growing between them.

Just Cookies Cookbook

by Cathy Marie Hake

2007

A festive cookie collection packed with holiday recipes, gift-friendly ideas, and easy seasonal inspiration. It ranges from classic Christmas favorites to meringues and jar mixes that work well for baking and sharing.

Forevermore

by Cathy Marie Hake

2008

Harvest cook Hope Ladley drifts onto widower Jakob Stauffer's farm and brings warmth, chaos, and unexpected comfort. As trouble from the past closes in, both must decide whether Hope can finally stop wandering and build a home.

Whirlwind

by Cathy Marie Hake

2008

A British governess crosses the Atlantic for a new start and finds herself drawn into a widower's struggling household. Duty puts them side by side, but grief, pride, and old expectations make their path to love anything but easy.

That Certain Spark

by Cathy Marie Hake

2009

When doctor Taylor Bestman arrives in Gooding with her veterinarian brother, the town is scandalized by a woman practicing medicine. Blacksmith Karl Van der Vort may be her fiercest skeptic, and her most reluctant defender.

Serendipity

by Cathy Marie Hake

2010

Todd Valmer heads to Virginia planning to bring his mother back to Texas, then ends up in a hasty marriage to perfumer Maggie Rose. Attraction comes fast, but family pressure, clashing dreams, and culture shock make lasting love much harder.

Where should I start?

If you want a funny small-town Texas series: Fancy PantsForevermoreWhirlwind
If you prefer California frontier romance with a little suspense: Letter PerfectBittersweet
If you like shorter family-linked historical romances: A Handful of FlowersBridal VeilNo Buttons Or Beaux
If you want a contemporary starting point: Mixed BlessingsLove Is PatientLove Worth Finding

Author bio

Cathy Marie Hake is a Southern California writer whose books mix historical romance, open Christian faith, and a very lived-in sense of humor. She is best known for stories set on the American frontier, where stubborn women, decent but slow-learning men, and tightly knit communities keep colliding in ways that are funny, awkward, and often tender.

She did not come to writing from an English department.

Hake trained as a nurse and worked for years in an oncology unit before moving into perinatal care. That background shows up in the way she writes about bodies, exhaustion, grief, caregiving, and the everyday labor that holds a household together. She has also mentioned other jobs along the way, including making Bible covers and cutting tops for convertibles, which tells you something about how practical, and a little offbeat, her path has been.

She has said that as a child she had an imaginary playmate, and as an adult she simply kept the company going by writing down what the voices in her head were saying. She met her sweetheart in the high school department at church and married him after finishing nursing school. Hake lives in Anaheim, California, with her husband and family, and her author bios have long noted the presence of two dogs, one of them famous for sounding like it mooed.

Then the books arrived.

Her first published novel, Twin Victories, came out in 2000, and she went on to write more than twenty novels and novellas. Many readers start with Fancy Pants, a Texas-set comedy of mistaken identity, or Letter Perfect, which brings a clumsy but warmhearted heroine to a California ranch with an inheritance mystery hanging over her. Others land on Forevermore, That Certain Spark, or Serendipity, books that show how much Hake enjoys small towns, family entanglements, and romances that need more than one conversation to come right.

She has also written contemporary romance, and Mixed Blessings is a good example of that side of her work. It takes a switched-at-birth shock and turns it into a story about grief, parenthood, and a relationship that looks simple on paper but is anything but simple in practice. In Love Worth Finding, a bridal shop owner and a former Navy SEAL have to face what happens when love and faith do not move at the same pace. Even when her setups are playful, Hake usually asks her characters to do some real growing up.

Her books return again and again to a few things readers tend to remember. She likes frontier towns, ranch kitchens, church socials, awkward courtships, immigrant families, widows and widowers, and women who are underestimated at first glance. She also likes work. Herbal healing, blacksmithing, ranch chores, cooking, childcare, and the plain business of making a home all matter in her stories. Faith is central, but it is usually woven into daily choices rather than dropped in from above.

That mix is probably why her fiction has lasted with Christian historical romance readers. The books are clean and funny, but they are not weightless. People lose parents, hide old wounds, arrive in strange towns, or discover that marriage is harder than attraction. Hake gives them room to be foolish, scared, generous, and slowly wiser. She has also branched into cookbooks and gift books, and she has shared projects with other writers, including books connected to her daughter Kelly Eileen Hake.

What ties the whole bibliography together is a steady outlook. Hake writes as someone who knows family life can be messy, work can wear people down, and love often needs patience more than fireworks. That makes her books easy to pick up, and easy to stay with.

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