Home in the Hills Books in Order

Home in the Hills steps away from capers and Highland battles and settles into a quieter kind of stakes, though not an easier one. These books are about women rebuilding their lives when the plans they trusted have fallen apart.

The setting matters a lot. The stories are rooted in the hills of South Dakota, with weather, animals, worn houses, and open space shaping everyday life. This is not decorative scenery. It affects work, relationships, and the way people hide or heal.

In Hearth Stone, Sydney Wellesley arrives carrying the shock of a shattered future after an injury ends her shot at the U.S. equestrian team. She is forced to rethink everything, including what strength looks like when winning is no longer the goal. Hearth Song follows Bravura Lambert, who is juggling a daughter, a failing house, money troubles, and a husband who shows up mostly when he needs something. Her life is already crowded before Tonk Redhawk complicates it further.

What links the books is that sense of starting over in plain sight. The women in this series are not running off to glamorous new lives. They are doing the slower work of staying put, fixing what can be fixed, and deciding what kind of future is still possible.

The tone is warm but not sugary. There is romance, but there is also fatigue, grief, parenting, pride, and the hard math of survival. If you like stories where home is something characters have to build, not just find, this is one of Greiman's most grounded series.