Kim Vogel Sawyer Books in Order

In Cañon City, Colorado, linewalker Jennie Ward hikes miles of wooden pipeline each day to support her injured father and secretly longs for a friend. When paleontology student Leo Day arrives searching for fossils along the river, their growing friendship tests Jennie’s loyalties and leads both to question what God might be uncovering beneath the surface of their lives.

Desperate to escape life in a house of ill repute, Birdie Clarkson climbs into the wagon of traveling preacher Isaiah Overly and his son Ephraim. At Hope Hill, a haven for women starting over, Birdie’s reluctant singing in the revival choir and the arrival of her former madam force her to face guilt, identity, and the possibility of a love she never thought she deserved.

In a tight‑knit Mennonite town, schoolteacher Augusta Dyck joins with other women to form a benevolent society to help widows and orphans. As they focus first on a prickly widower and his unruly twin sons, tangled motives, buried griefs, and competing plans slowly reveal how God is weaving their lives together into something far more beautiful than any of them expected.

A trip to the shore gives a weary woman space to breathe, reflect, and confront choices she has been avoiding. As walks along the beach and long talks with a surprising companion soften her heart, she glimpses how God can use rest and simple joys to redirect a life.

In 1905, failed composer Gilbert Baty limps home to the Mennonite town of Falke, Kansas, hoping to rebuild his life in secret. As he starts a boys’ band and reconnects with his former fiancée, baker Ava Flaming, both must decide whether they dare trust love and calling a second time.

Living with Nanny Fay and working as a packhorse librarian, Bettina finally feels safe and hopeful about marrying Shay Leeson. News that her abusive father’s prison sentence has been cut short, along with rumblings of world war, forces her to choose between running, hiding, or trusting God to calm the storms closing in on Boone’s Hollow.

Youth pastor Jase Edgar moves to a small Kansas church still reeling from his fiancée’s death and his own shaken faith. There he meets spunky custodian Lori Fowler and former Amish woman Kenzie Stetler, and a lost ring draws them into a mystery that gently forces each of them to face grief, shame, and the hope of a new beginning.

Indentured singer Fanny Beck is the star attraction on a Mississippi riverboat, yet she is treated as its prisoner. When she seizes a risky chance to escape, she crosses paths with a family fleeing slavery and a widowed farmer in Indiana, discovering that real freedom reaches far deeper than physical chains.

Newlywed cold‑case detectives Sean and Meghan Eagle take on the disappearance of a father who vanished twenty years earlier. As the investigation stirs up buried pain for their client and for Meghan herself, the couple must choose whether to let fear erode their young marriage or to walk the harder road of forgiveness and trust.

During the Great Depression, aspiring novelist Addie Cowherd becomes a packhorse librarian, carrying books into the isolated mining community of Boone’s Hollow, Kentucky. Facing suspicion, sabotage, and a decades‑old feud, she and local college graduate Emmett Tharp learn how stories, truth, and grace can slowly heal a broken town.

In the Morning When I Rise follows a woman who learns to begin each day by turning her worries into honest conversation with God. As unexpected challenges press in, those quiet moments of prayer slowly reshape her fears, relationships, and sense of purpose.

At the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, sheltered Laurel Millard takes a job operating a silk loom, hoping to catch a wealthy husband who can support both her and her widowed mother. Caught between charming but shallow Langdon Rochester and hardworking security guard Willie Sharp, she must decide what kind of love and life she truly wants.

When unexpected guests, financial strain, and an old disagreement converge at a small inn, its owners find their marriage and ministry under pressure. Working through misunderstandings while welcoming strangers, they relearn why they opened their doors in the first place and how God meets people right where they stay.

Old Order Mennonite couple Anthony and Marty Hirschler drift apart after learning they cannot have children. When Marty’s childhood friend invites them to help rebuild a ghost town into a resort, the project, a cancer diagnosis, and a runaway teen push everyone to reconsider what marriage, community, and sacrificial love should look like.

Banished from high society after her father’s scandal, refined Abigail Brantley travels to rough‑and‑tumble Spiveyville, Kansas, to tutor cowboys in manners so they can marry mail‑order brides. As she butts heads with rancher Mack Cleveland, Abigail discovers that true worth has little to do with polish and much to do with character.

After a painful setback steals her confidence, a once‑eager singer wonders if her days of making music are over. Unexpected friendships and a quiet prompting from God invite her to lift her voice again and discover that praise can rise even from broken places.

On the eve of a close friend’s wedding, a woman who has always been "the helper" begins to question her own future as old feelings and new opportunities collide. Surrounded by borrowed dresses and borrowed dreams, she must decide whether to cling to safe plans or risk opening her heart.

After a shattering loss, Dr. Holden Winters wants nothing to do with God or love as he practices medicine in prewar Hawaii. Army nurse Callie Myers arrives eager to learn and to talk about her faith, and as the beauty of Oahu collides with the horror of looming war, both must decide whether hope is solid ground or only sinking sand.

When a string of accidents seems to follow Jimmy wherever he goes, neighbors begin whispering that he is a jinx. Determined not to hurt anyone else, he pulls away from friends and family until truth, grace, and a clearer view of God’s care free him from the burden he has taken on.

Postmistress Grace Cristler has quietly fallen in love with the new pastor she knows only through letters. When drifter Theo Garrison, fleeing the outlaw cousins he once aided, assumes the preacher’s identity to hide in her Kansas town, his deception entangles the whole community and forces him to choose between self‑preservation and a life shaped by grace.

As a girl in 1943, Hazel DeFord lost sight of her toddler sister in a blackberry patch and the child was never found. Decades later, Hazel, her estranged daughter, and her granddaughter Meghan, a cold‑case investigator, end up under one roof, where long‑buried secrets and a reopened investigation force them to face guilt, grief, and the possibility of restoration.

During the Great Depression, Neva Shilling helps run her husband’s general store and raises their twins while he travels for business. When a sheriff arrives with three more children and the news that Neva’s husband had a secret family, she must decide whether to send the youngsters to an orphanage or open her broken heart and crowded home to them.

Haunted by his past, Jeremiah keeps to the shadows of a Queens ministry that once sheltered him, convinced he is safer unseen. When shy Tessy is asked to use her voice in worship there, their shared love of music gradually draws them into the open, where both must confront fear, forgiveness, and the God who calls them to sing again.

Missing his old friend Jonas T. Whale, Jimmy persuades neighbor Edmund to join him on a daring quest to find the whale and bring him back to Kansas. Traveling like hobos across the country, the boys learn hard lessons about danger, loyalty, and where home truly is.

Life in Cottonwood Valley is predictable until farm boy Jimmy meets an enormous whale far from the sea. Befriending the gentle giant pulls Jimmy into unexpected adventures and teaches him that caring for another creature can stretch his courage and faith.

After a family tragedy, Rebekah Hardin disguises herself as a boy to work as a guide in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave and earn money for her struggling parents. Partnering with seasoned guide Tolly and idealistic cartographer Devlin Bale, she discovers breathtaking underground beauty, hidden dangers, and a God who can lead her out of emotional darkness.

Back in Arborville, Suzanne Zimmerman has slowly rebuilt ties with the Mennonite family that once cast her out. As preparations begin for their daughter’s wedding, Suzanne and her former sweetheart Paul are drawn together again, even while Alexa travels to search for her birth parents. Past wounds, present fears, and God’s quiet leading combine in a story of second chances.

Alexa Zimmerman runs a small bed‑and‑breakfast in her Mennonite community, hoping her hospitality will win over skeptical neighbors who question her family roots. Agreeing to host big‑city reporter Briley Forrester and her cousin’s wedding draws old secrets into the open and tests whether God’s grace can knit together a family marked by betrayal.

At seventeen, pregnant Suzanne Zimmerman was sent away from her Old Order Mennonite community in disgrace. Nineteen years later she returns as a nurse to care for her injured mother, bringing the daughter no one knows exists. Facing her family, her former love Paul, and her own shame, Suzanne must decide whether to keep hiding or trust the mercy she once believed was out of reach.

Dinah Hubley grows up in a Chicago brothel and carries a secret that convinces her she is ruined. Dreaming of a fresh start as a Harvey Girl, she instead becomes a chambermaid in a Kansas hotel, where shy chicken farmer Amos Ackerman and a gracious God patiently show her that no one is beyond redemption.

Christina Willems oversees the Brambleville Benevolent Home, a refuge for the poor and displaced in rural Kansas. When a fire destroys the kitchen and scatters her residents, she must find new placements, including convincing reclusive, nearly blind mill owner Levi Jonnson to shelter a troubled boy, and in the process relearns what it means to serve without clinging to control.

This companion novella to What Once Was Lost follows a man whose ordered life collides with the ragtag residents of a Kansas mission home. As he confronts his own pride and grief, he discovers that grace does not merely patch up the past but can lead a wandering heart into a truer home.

In wartime New York, Lydia Eldredge is quietly raising little Nicky, the son of her addicted cousin, determined to keep him safe. Dr. Micah Hatcher runs a busy clinic serving immigrants in Queens. When Nicky’s dangerous biological father resurfaces and Micah’s past comes calling, their lives intertwine in a story about refuge, sacrifice, and the many forms sanctuary can take.

Set after the events of What Once Was Lost, this short story follows a young woman scarred by past rejection who is offered unexpected love. As she weighs whether to guard her heart or step forward, she slowly comes to believe that God accepts her just as she is and can shape a hopeful future from painful memories.

When a suspicious death occurs at the Dinsmore Chocolate factory in early‑1900s Kansas, investigator Caroline Lang goes undercover as a worker to uncover the truth, especially about rumored child labor abuses. Teaming up with a wealthy heir posing as a janitor, she navigates danger, romance, and the tension between justice and mercy.

Widowed Mennonite mother Amy Knackstedt moves with her three children to rural Kansas, seeking a fresh start near others who share her faith. Their neighbor, Tim Roper, has turned his back on God after heartbreak. As fence‑line squabbles give way to friendship, both households are challenged to reconsider what hope and community really mean.

To help her struggling family, Sadie Wagner accepts work in a Kansas dry‑goods store, only to discover her employer expects her to sing in a nearby saloon as well. New town marshal Thad Monroe suspects something shady is happening behind the store’s respectable front, and Sadie must decide whom to trust and what kind of song she wants her life to sing.

Fed up with grim tenement life in 1880 New York, Tarsie Raines urges her friends Joss and Mary Brubacher to move with their children to Drayton Valley, Kansas, the "land of opportunity." Tragedy on the trail throws Tarsie and Joss into an unexpected partnership, forcing them to confront grief, prejudice, and the question of whether God might weave a new family from their loss.

As Katy Lambright finishes another year at public high school, her Old Order Mennonite world and her "English" world collide when best friend Shelby comes to stay on the farm. With church leaders weighing whether she can keep attending the outside school, Katy must finally decide which path—and which kind of life—she will pursue.

In 1880s Nebraska, idealistic schoolteacher Edythe Amsel arrives determined to broaden her students’ minds. Her progressive methods and strong views on women’s rights ruffle feathers in the conservative farming community, including those of steady farmer Joel Townsend, even as affection quietly grows between them.

Half‑native, half‑white Lizzie Dawson lives on the outskirts of her Alaskan village, shunned by her mother’s people and unseen by her white father’s world. When two missionaries arrive to start a school, their kindness draws her toward faith and community, but accepting love may mean challenging long‑standing resentments on both sides.

Sixteen‑year‑old Katy Lambright becomes the first girl from her Old Order Mennonite community to attend the town’s public high school. Juggling new friends, unfamiliar subjects, and strict church expectations, she has to figure out how to live out her faith in a world that often pulls the other way.

When classmates jokingly nominate Katy to the homecoming court and she is actually chosen, the honor brings pressure to wear revealing clothes, attend a dance her church forbids, and appear on the arm of the boy she secretly likes. Katy must decide whether fitting in at school is worth compromising the convictions of her Mennonite community.

Just as Katy begins to find her place at school, her widowed father starts courting a woman she is determined not to accept as a stepmother. Joining the debate team sharpens Katy’s skills at arguing, but also forces her to examine whether she is fighting for truth or simply for her own way.

Three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head to college in 1914 Missouri. Libby dreams of being a journalist, Pete plans for the ministry, and Bennett wants fun and prestige, but clashing ambitions, secrets about Pete’s past, and the approach of war test their loyalty and faith.

With their eldest son facing conscription into the Russian army, Mennonite couple Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt immigrate to America with their three boys and Reinhardt’s foster brother, Eli. Tragedy on the voyage and the challenges of starting over on a Kansas homestead stretch their faith and force them to decide what kind of family they will be in this new land.

Emmaline Bradford once promised to marry sheep rancher Geoffrey Garrett, then waited years in England before he could send for her. Arriving in rough Kansas with cooled affections and fragile faith, she agrees to stay only until spring, giving both of them a short season to discover whether duty can blossom into love.

In 1888, orphaned Tressa Neill leaves finishing school and travels west to a Kansas cattle ranch, believing she is settling for a life of drudgery. As she learns ranch work and meets other rancher’s wives, she begins to see that God may have more for her than a second‑best future.

College graduate Thomas Ollenburger is torn between his Mennonite roots on the Kansas prairie and the opportunities he has found in bustling Boston. Drawn to a woman in each place and unsure of his vocational calling, he seeks God’s guidance even when heaven seems silent and his own heart pulls in conflicting directions.

After a tenement fire in 1880s New York leaves three Irish‑immigrant siblings orphaned, Maelle, Mattie, and Molly are separated on an orphan train bound for Missouri. Years later, Maelle is still searching for her brother and sister, clinging to a fading promise and learning that reunion will require courage, forgiveness, and a willingness to face painful memories.

Animal‑loving Trina Muller has always dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but her Old Order Mennonite parents expect her to marry and stay close to home. When a newcomer to Sommerfeld encourages her ambitions and stirs her heart, Trina must decide whether to defer to others’ plans or trust the God who gave her those longings.

During the Dust Bowl years, Kansas farmer Harley Phipps sells his mules and leaves home to work for the Works Progress Administration, helping build an elaborate stone structure. His wife, Anna Mae, struggles to keep their children and farm afloat with no word from him, wondering whether the distance between them is measured only in miles.

Widow Marie Koeppler reluctantly returns to the Mennonite community she left decades earlier when her daughter Beth inherits a café there. As mysterious thefts stir suspicion against the "outsiders" and Marie’s former sweetheart Henry Braun reenters her life, she must confront old wounds and decide whether bygones can truly be forgiven.

Staying in Sommerfeld after her mother remarries, Beth Quinn pours herself into a new stained‑glass business. When both steady Mennonite Andrew Braun and charming outsider Sean McCauley begin courting her, Beth wrestles with where she belongs and whether faith can span the gap between two very different worlds.

In 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman reels after disease claims her husband and all four children, leaving her alone in a town that barely knew her. Accepting work teaching widower Peter Ollenburger’s son, she gradually finds her heart being drawn toward both the quiet Mennonite farmer and the God she thought had abandoned her.

Wealthy heiress Carrie May is tired of suitors who see only her inheritance, while new Christian Rocky Wilder longs to start a landscaping business but refuses to chase money for its own sake. As their paths cross, both must decide whether they will cling to self‑interest or risk trusting each other and the God who is changing their priorities.

Fresh out of rehab, Angela is determined to walk a new path with God, yet finds herself isolated as old friends want the party girl back and new acquaintances eye her with suspicion. Ben Atchison, scarred by relatives’ drug abuse, resists getting close, until both are challenged to believe that God’s promises can remake even a shattered life.

After her parents’ sudden deaths, Marin Brooks must run the family ad agency and care for her beloved brother John, who has Down syndrome. When job‑placement specialist Phillip Wilder urges her to let John take a real job instead of treating him like a child, clashing views of protection and independence blossom into an unexpected romance.

A couple who once delighted in their snug lakeside cottage find their dreams crumbling under the weight of grief and unmet expectations. When pressure from family, finances, and faith all collide, they are forced to confront what their vows truly meant and whether God can rebuild what feels beyond repair.

In Mountain Lake, Minnesota, a young man watches his sister embrace faith and marriage while he clings to bitterness and control. As circumstances at the family bed‑and‑breakfast and in his own relationships unravel, he must decide whether to keep guarding his heart or surrender it to the God who has never stopped pursuing him.

After a broken engagement, Samantha O’Brien throws herself into running her family’s Victorian bed‑and‑breakfast in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Hosting a steady stream of guests keeps her busy, but as their stories intersect with her own, she begins to see that hiding behind work is no substitute for letting God heal a disappointed heart.