Karen Witemeyer Books in Order

Temperance crusader Noreen O’Sullivan throws herself into shutting down her town’s saloon, often clashing with Deputy James Paxton, who values order more than public battles. As a planned march and rising tensions draw them together, both must weigh ambition, justice, and the risky pull of a romance neither intended to start.

Once adored as the "American Adonis," scarred recluse Everett Griffin hides in a lonely Texas manor, content with his fearsome reputation. When bookbinder’s daughter Callista Rosenfeld arrives to fulfill a contract that will save her family, restoring his library slowly softens his defenses and exposes both of them to a deadly enemy and unexpected love.

Asher Ellis sneaks into cattle king Eli Dearing’s mansion to seek proof that his family was wronged, but ends up saving Dearing’s young son during a lavish ball and losing a boot in the chaos. Heiress Samantha Dearing vows to find the mysterious hero, unaware he is the very man whose family her father has displaced.

Hidden in the piney woods under the name Letty Hood, heiress Scarlett Radcliffe has spent years avoiding an uncle who wants her dead before she can inherit. When Pinkerton agent Philip Carmichael is hired to escort her back to Houston, their dangerous journey forces them to confront killers, questions of identity, and a growing attachment.

In Bethlehem, Texas, farmer Simeon Shepherd loves Anna King but cannot win her father’s approval. When a wealthy rival suitor appears just before Christmas, Simeon has twelve days to creatively echo the famous carol and prove he is Anna’s true love in both devotion and ability to provide.

Sharpshooter’s daughter Tessa James has long loved brooding hunter Jackson Spivey, who wants nothing to do with romance. After lessons with Annie Oakley and the loan of a legendary pink-handled pistol, Tessa’s clumsy attempts to impress him draw both of them into real danger and a courtship neither expected.

Orphaned maid Penelope Snow hides her beauty under plain dresses while working for a jealous actress touring Texas, until a deadly scheme forces her to flee. Rescued by Texas Ranger Titus Kingsley and a group of gruff retired cowhands, she must clear her name and decide whether to trust a lawman wary of pretty faces.

Restless Horseman Luke Davenport takes a solo job tracking rustlers and instead finds quiet bookish Damaris Baxter and her grieving teenage nephew caught in the crossfire. Protecting them uncovers dark questions about the boy’s father’s death and forces Luke to decide whether a ready-made family might be worth laying down his wandering ways.

In this western twist on a classic holiday tale, determined Felicity Wiggins sets out to secure a charitable donation from wealthy, tightfisted Evan Beazer. As mysterious visitors and frontier circumstances confront him with his past, present, and future, Evan must choose between clinging to bitterness or embracing the grace and love offered at Christmas.

This Christmas collection gathers three novellas, including a frontier retelling of a certain famous carol, a new Archer family Christmas adventure, and a story of a widow who offers an heirloom brooch as loan collateral. Together they blend festive fun, frontier peril, and tender romance in a distinctly Texan holiday package.

Horsemen Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks ride into Llano County to deliver a horse and end up delivering a baby, leading them to Harmony House, a foundling home run by Mark’s former sweetheart and her friend. As children begin disappearing, the men and women must uncover the truth while confronting past regrets and the pull of new love.

Spinster Phoebe Woodward builds an inn beside the famed Kissing Tree, determined to create a haven for courting couples even though she has no romance of her own. When her father sends a no-nonsense property manager to rein in her whimsical plans, practical concerns and growing attraction tangle in ways neither of them anticipated.

Set around a legendary oak where couples carve their initials, this multi-author collection traces romances tied to the same Texas Kissing Tree over decades. Karen Witemeyer’s story follows spinster Phoebe Woodward, whose dream of a romantic inn clashes with a practical manager and unexpectedly puts her own heart on the line.

Harboring shame over a youthful mistake, Harvey Girl Rosalind Kemp hides behind stern manners and fake spectacles at her new post in Gainesville, Texas. Local attorney Caleb Durrington sees past the disguise and gently courts her, but when her secret surfaces, Rosalind must choose between running again or trusting that grace and love can cover her past.

Haunted by war, ex-cavalry officer Matthew Hanger leads Hanger’s Horsemen, a small band of mercenaries who defend the innocent across Texas. When a mission leaves one of his men near death, frontier doctor Josephine Burkett demands Matthew’s help, drawing him into a rescue of her kidnapped brother and a battle for both of their hearts.

Baker Abigail Kemp risks losing her late father’s shop when an old law requires a man’s name on the deed, so she proposes a marriage of convenience to quiet, steady lumberman Zacharias Hamilton. Their practical arrangement soon collides with sabotage, family trouble, and a deepening affection that neither of them planned for.

This holiday volume pairs two historical novellas, reuniting the Archer clan for a perilous Christmas rescue and following a widow who stakes her family’s future on an heirloom brooch offered as collateral. Both stories weave frontier danger with warmth, focusing on adoption, second chances, and the miracle of love arriving when it is least expected.

Claire Nevin, an Irish-born healer in Texas, eagerly anticipates her younger sister’s arrival by train, only to be handed a mysterious bundle and confronted by a former beau escorting it. As secrets unravel, Claire must decide whether to cling to past hurts or trust that God might be tying their lives together again for good.

Many in Pecan Gap believe orphan Evangeline Hamilton is cursed, thanks to her mismatched eyes and tragic past. When Logan Fowler comes to town seeking revenge against the man he blames for his father’s ruin, he finds instead Evangeline’s unconventional patchwork family and a choice between clinging to vengeance or embracing grace and love.

This novella collection gathers four historical romances, including Karen Witemeyer’s "The Love Knot," where Irish immigrant Claire Nevin awaits her sister at a Texas train depot and instead receives an unexpected package and a man from her past, forcing her to face old wounds and the chance for a new beginning.

Freighter Benjamin Porter is one of only two men welcome inside the women’s colony of Harper’s Station and has fallen hard for shopkeeper Victoria Adams and her young son. Tori, scarred by past abuse, trusts no man, but a joint delivery venture and a terrible accident force her to confront both fear and the possibility of lasting love.

Telegraph operator Grace Mallory has been hiding in Harper’s Station since her father’s murder, but a warning over the wire reveals her enemy has found her. Her nightly telegraph friend Amos Bledsoe, a bicycle-riding operator from another town, rushes to help, and together they must outwit a relentless killer while discovering a quiet, unlikely romance.

Marietta Hawkins has secretly loved ranch foreman Daniel Barrett for years, but her father’s rules keep him firmly off-limits. When Daniel announces he is leaving to start his own spread, Marietta hatches a desperate plan to push the honorable cowboy into seeing her as more than his boss’s sheltered daughter.

Emma Chandler built Harper’s Station as a women’s colony where men are optional, until an unseen enemy targets the town. She summons explosives expert Malachi Shaw, the former street orphan she once saved, and together they must uncover who is trying to drive the women out while facing old feelings that never quite died.

Civil War doctor Jacob Sadler reluctantly returns to the Texas town he fled years before, intending only to open a quiet practice and bury old pain. Instead he collides with fiery Mollie Tate, whose loyalty to the man who once rescued her forces Jacob to confront his past and consider a future he never expected.

Tracker Stone Hammond is hired to recover a railroad magnate’s kidnapped granddaughter, but finds former headmistress Charlotte Atherton hiding three gifted children from an unscrupulous guardian. As he weighs conflicting claims and a new threat emerges, Stone must choose between his reputation and protecting the unconventional family he has come to love.

Shipping heiress Nicole Renard returns to Galveston to find her father gravely ill and rivals scheming for the family’s prized Lafitte Dagger. Fleeing with the heirloom, she lands a job with reclusive engineer Darius Thornton, whose obsession with preventing boiler explosions draws them into experiments, danger, and a romance neither planned.

Youngest Archer brother Neill leaves his family ranch to make his own way and is hired, anonymously, to fix the leaky roof of pregnant widow Clara Danvers. As threats close in and her past catches up to her, Neill must decide whether he is willing to stay and risk his heart along with his life.

On his way to interview at a country church, Crockett Archer is yanked off a train by a retired outlaw and presented to the man’s daughter as the preacher she wanted for her birthday. Joanna Robbins has prayed for a minister to revive their abandoned church, but winning Crockett’s heart and calling to her small community proves far harder than stealing him.

No one dares trespass on Archer land, but when Meredith Hayes overhears a plot to burn the ranch, a childhood debt pushes her to warn the four reclusive Archer brothers. Her impulsive act ruins her reputation and leads to a marriage-of-convenience with stoic Travis Archer, drawing them into danger and unexpected love.

Ex-convict and skilled blacksmith Levi Grant comes to the town of Spencer, Texas, hoping for a quiet fresh start and a clean reputation. When bookish librarian Eden Spencer slowly falls for him, Levi’s hidden past and her ideals about justice collide in a test of forgiveness and second chances.

After a disastrous attempt at husband hunting, romantic dreamer Adelaide Proctor accepts a governess position on a remote Texas sheep ranch. There she meets widowed Englishman Gideon Westcott and his mute little girl, and must help protect the child from a greedy uncle determined to claim her inheritance.

Dressmaker Hannah Richards comes to Coventry, Texas, to open a new shop and quickly clashes with livery owner Jericho Tucker, who distrusts women he sees as vain. As they help a grieving widow and his shy sister, their views on beauty, faith, and each other begin to change.