Kelly Long Books in Order
Explore Kelly Long books in order, with short summaries, related series background, and simple where-to-start advice for her Amish romances.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
Hart's Truth
by Kelly Long
2005
Fresh out of medical school, Hart Pagett takes a job in a Pennsylvania rail town in 1920. As he learns medicine from an older doctor, he is also drawn toward faith, community, and the doctor's daughter, Abby.
Sarah's Garden
by Kelly Long
2010
Sarah King feels safest in her garden, until she falls for Grant Williams, the community's new Englisch veterinarian. Now she must choose between a forbidden love and the family and faith that have always shaped her life.
Lilly's Wedding Quilt
by Kelly Long
2011
Lilly Lapp has loved Jacob for years, but marriage to him brings more uncertainty than joy at first. As winter passes, a quiet union built on hurt and duty slowly begins to look like real love.
A Marriage of the Heart
by Kelly Long
2012
Abigail Kauffman longs to escape the emptiness of her father's farmhouse, while newcomer Joseph Lambert wants a place to belong. Their sudden marriage forces both to discover what lasting love really asks of them.
Arms Of Love
by Kelly Long
2012
In 1777 Pennsylvania, Adam Wyse is torn between his Amish faith and the war raging around him. A promise keeps him from Lena Yoder, and both must choose between duty, conscience, and the love they still share.
Christmas Cradles
by Kelly Long
2012
Anna Stolis steps in for her midwife aunt on Christmas night and finds herself racing from one delivery to the next. Between three quilts and unexpected help from brooding Asa Lapp, the holiday becomes unforgettable.
A Perfect Secret
by Kelly Long
2013
Rose Bender agrees to marry dependable Luke Lantz out of duty more than passion. Then she discovers a hidden, surprising side of him and must decide whether she truly knows the man she is promising to love.
A Taste of Faith
by Kelly Long
2013
Fern Zook is known for healing herbs, not romance, until a family emergency brings neighbor Abram Fisher running to her kitchen. Their quick-growing connection is tested by mistrust before it can become something lasting.
Threads of Grace
by Kelly Long
2013
Widowed Grace Beiler hopes for peace, but her late husband's will leaves her and her son exposed. Seth Wyse offers marriage as protection, and both must learn whether safety can grow into trust, tenderness, and real love.
The Amish Bride of Ice Mountain
by Kelly Long
2014
A stolen kiss pushes Mary King into marriage with Jude Lyons, an Englisch professor studying her community. What begins as a temporary, chaste arrangement grows far more complicated once Mary enters Jude's very different world.
An Amish Man of Ice Mountain
by Kelly Long
2015
Joseph King offers Priscilla Allen and her little daughter shelter through a marriage in name only. But his guilt, her secrets, and the closeness of mountain life make distance harder to keep than either expected.
The Amish Heart of Ice Mountain
by Kelly Long
2015
Healer Sarah Mast barely recognizes the man who has come home to her. When a misunderstanding forces her into marriage with Edward King, the two must face whether love can survive changed hearts and wounded trust.
An Amish Courtship on Ice Mountain
by Kelly Long
2017
Martha Yoder has little time for romance while caring for her frail grandmother and aging parents. Her feelings for Joel Umble deepen, but family pressure and old expectations make their path to love anything but simple.
The Amish Christmas Candle
by Kelly Long
2017
Naomi Gish's father hires Gray Fisher to help at the family candle shop for the Christmas season. Naomi suspects matchmaking, but as they work side by side, the season begins to glow with new possibility.
An Amish Match on Ice Mountain
by Kelly Long
2018
Firefighter Stephen Lambert brings pregnant Ella Nichols to Ice Mountain after rescuing her from danger. As she hides among the Plain community, both are drawn together by protection, secrecy, and the hope of a safer future.
The Blueberry Bride
by Kelly Long
2018
Letty Mast has spent too long in her beautiful stepsister's shadow. When Matt Miller begins calling after a wedding, everyone assumes he wants Rose, and Letty must decide whether to trust her hope or protect her heart.
An Amish Wedding Feast on Ice Mountain
by Kelly Long
2020
Beth Mast goes to a wedding hoping for a brief escape from duty at home. There she meets Ransom King, a guarded bachelor with his own painful past, and both must decide if they can risk happiness.
Marrying Matthew
by Kelly Long
2020
Tabitha Stolfus advertises for a husband who will value her, not her inheritance. Matthew King answers for reasons of his own, and his hidden plan may ruin the real marriage neither of them expected.
Courting Caleb
by Kelly Long
2022
Abigail Mast posts for a mail order groom and gets two. As she courts both men under the bishop's watch, Caleb must prove he wants more than an escape from the future his family chose for him.
Amish Always
by Kelly Long
2023
A brief Amish romance about faith, family, and lasting commitment, told in Kelly Long's warm, plainspoken style. It is designed as a quick read and includes recipes along with reading group material.
Where should I start?
If you want her most connected family series: Sarah's Garden → Lilly's Wedding Quilt → Threads of Grace
If you want a rugged mountain Amish setting: The Amish Bride of Ice Mountain → An Amish Man of Ice Mountain → The Amish Heart of Ice Mountain
If you like practical marriages that turn into romance: Marrying Matthew → Courting Caleb → A Marriage of the Heart
If you want her historical side: Hart's Truth → Arms Of Love
Author bio
Kelly Long writes Amish and Christian romance that stays close to the ground. Her books are usually set in Pennsylvania, often in mountain communities, and they pay attention to work, family pressure, faith, and the way love can grow in hard places.
She was raised in North Central Pennsylvania. Her father had Amish friends, and that early contact gave her a firsthand sense of Plain life, from chores and roadside stands to the strong ties inside small communities. That background still shapes her fiction, especially her interest in Appalachian Amish life rather than only the better known Lancaster setting.
Pennsylvania never really leaves her books.
Long published her first novel, Hart's Truth, in 2005. Set in a Pennsylvania rail town in 1920, it follows a young doctor finding both vocation and love, and it already shows themes she would return to again and again: wounded people, daily faith, and the hope of starting over.
She has also reached back into Amish history with Arms Of Love, a novel set during the American Revolution. That book shows another side of her interests, not just courtship, but the strain that war, conscience, and promise can put on ordinary lives.
She later moved more fully into Amish fiction. Readers who start with Sarah's Garden meet one of her favorite kinds of heroines, a quiet woman with deep feelings and a practical inner life. In Lilly's Wedding Quilt and Threads of Grace, Long keeps building that world with gardens, quilts, chores, courtship, grief, and the slow work of trust.
Then came Ice Mountain.
Beginning with The Amish Bride of Ice Mountain, that series shifts her work into a more rugged Appalachian setting. The books follow linked characters in a remote mountain Amish community, and they mix tenderness with heavier troubles, shame, family control, secrecy, outsider pressure, and marriages that start in unusual ways. Later titles such as An Amish Man of Ice Mountain and An Amish Match on Ice Mountain keep that same balance of close community, emotional strain, and hard-won affection.
Long has also written shorter works like A Taste of Faith, A Perfect Secret, Christmas Cradles, and A Marriage of the Heart. Even in novella form, she likes to give her characters real problems to solve. A romance may begin with a misunderstanding, a duty, or a practical arrangement, but it usually turns on something deeper, trust, forgiveness, or the courage to be fully known.
What many readers respond to is that her Amish fiction does not pretend life is neat. Her communities can be loving, funny, stubborn, and sometimes bruised. People carry sadness, family burdens, or private shame. They also cook, quilt, argue, pray, and keep going. That balance helps her books feel warm without becoming overly sugary.
Today Long lives in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with her three children. She has also spoken up for autism spectrum and mental health needs, which fits the compassion her fiction often shows toward characters who feel overlooked, anxious, or slightly out of step with the people around them.
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