Katie Crabapple Books in Order

Kindergarten teacher Anna enjoys volunteering at her church and assumes its handsome new pastor will never notice her. Pastor Dan's interest challenges her doubts about finding love as their shared dedication to the congregation brings them together.

Single mother Mary focuses on raising three children after her husband leaves, with help from neighbor Ken. When he confesses years of affection for her, she must decide whether she can trust again and welcome him into their family.

Kennedy returns to her former college roommate Anna's life as a bridesmaid and meets Parkside Community Church's new youth pastor. Their attraction offers a romantic possibility, but ongoing problems within the congregation threaten to keep them apart.

After eight years of marriage, Amy remains childless despite her longstanding dream of motherhood. A doctor's explanation that in vitro fertilization is her only chance forces her to confront uncertainty about having a child and the future she imagined.

Daniel follows his parents' example by seeking a mail-order bride in postwar Minnesota. Maggie, grieving a fiancé killed in World War I, sees his advertisement as a chance to start again, but both bring different expectations to the arrangement.

Widowed farmer George needs help caring for four children, while Millie must soon leave the orphanage where she grew up. Their mail-order marriage offers practical security, but a lie in her response to his requirements threatens their relationship.

New children's minister Ashley enjoys her work at Parkside Community Church, where a conversation with a little girl draws her into a family's life. Widower Larry Rome must consider whether he is ready to move beyond grief and welcome love.

Too old to remain at her Boston orphanage, Charlotte accepts an invitation to stay with her friend Millie in Minnesota. A farmer funds her journey hoping to court her, but frontier hardships test her willingness to make a new home.

Minnesota schoolteacher Patience clashes with a pupil's single father over the boy's lack of interest in learning. When a sudden snowstorm traps them in the schoolhouse with her students, enforced cooperation reveals unexpected sides of them both.

Lonely Texas pastor Samuel accepts an arranged match suggested by his seminary president's wife. Meeting bride-to-be Kristen disappoints them both, leaving the strangers to decide whether they can overcome their first impressions and build a shared life of ministry.

A shy woman seeks love by agreeing to marry a minister in Tyler, Texas, whom she barely knows. Beginning life with a virtual stranger tests both her expectations of marriage and the religious faith she believed was secure.

New programming graduate Donna is stranded in a Minnesota town when her car breaks down. A mechanic's welcoming family offers temporary shelter, and their pastor son Paul challenges her ideas about financial security, faith, and the future she wants.

After his wingman dies during World War II, Ken visits the man's widow and children to fulfill a promise. Finding them without support, he proposes a practical marriage, leaving both to discover whether affection can grow from duty.

Alison's spoiled behavior leads her parents to send her from New York to her sister's Minnesota home. Meeting Frank makes the move more appealing, but acceptance requires changing habits that her new community refuses to tolerate.

Abandoned when her fiancé marries someone else, Beatrice accepts the chance to become a mail-order bride. Lonely pastor Adam awaits her in Argyle, Texas, where both must discover whether an uncertain arrangement can grow into love and partnership.

A factory fire costs Sarah her job, prompting her to become a mail-order bride in Minnesota. Her husband Karl, a hardworking German immigrant, finds her unlike the woman he imagined, and their strong personalities make compromise essential.