Kimberly Grist Books in Order

Emma Brady would rather improve a ranch than master housekeeping, but her heart still belongs to her childhood sweetheart. While deputy Scotty chases outlaws, Emma has to decide whether hope can survive distance and silence.

Dressmaker Lois Weaver has built a life that defies convention, yet her heart remains fixed on farmer and former Texas Ranger Daniel Lawrence. When family tragedy pulls him away, Lois must decide whether she dares speak the truth herself.

Raised in Carrie Town by a loving guardian after a hard childhood, Rebecca is left adrift when he dies and her future grows uncertain. As old wounds and delayed promises close in, she must decide whether to settle for security or wait for real love.

Memphis Rose Griffin loves the children's home where she teaches, but she still aches for a family of her own. Reluctant widower Mike Montgomery never meant to apply for a bride, yet Christmas gives both of them one more chance.

Schoolteacher Meriwether Walker finally has a chance at a home of her own when she inherits property in Texas. The handsome buyer who wants the land and its water rights may prove harder to resist than she expected.

After sudden loss and shrinking prospects, Carol Stone moves to Carrie Town with two younger siblings and very few illusions. A simpler Christmas life and a kind livery-stable owner may offer more than the future she planned.

Schoolteacher Garnet Adams supports her widowed mother and lives under strict rules that leave little room for courtship. A rough deputy with poor manners and a surprising heart keeps crossing her path until Christmas changes everything.

Tomboy blacksmith Maggie Montgomery is happiest in the smithy until she is asked to care for a sick neighbor. Then the doctor's stern, newly returned son unsettles her in ways she never expected.

Bethany Phoebe Brady loves bees, children, and the idea of finally being chosen for a life of her own. Moses Montgomery wants a sensible wife, but their new marriage starts with hay fever, stubbornness, and a lot of clashing expectations.

Practical math teacher Daisy Murphy enters a proxy marriage expecting months of correspondence before real life begins. David Taylor does not have that kind of time, because he needs a wife fast to keep the children he loves.

Magnolia approaches matchmaking with careful standards and a practical eye, certain she can measure out the right future. Then a successful businessman who never meant to fall for anyone upsets her tidy plan.

Isabelle Miller works hard to help her family and has little patience for shallow attention. When businessman Bart Ogletree notices her, a well-meaning angel named Maude steps in to nudge two wary hearts together.

Former debutante Victoria Wilson joins a matchmaking venture hoping for a fresh start and a chance to prove her worth. Rancher Gabe Ross needs a wife who can help care for his young nieces, not a woman who upends his careful plans.

Ada Pike wants to trade society life for a family she can love with flour on her hands and purpose in her days. Widowed blacksmith Barrett Montgomery wants help, not complications, but his mail-order bride may change the whole household.

Potter Elly Emerson faces homelessness after her parents' death and a cruel turn inside her own family home. Engineer Alston Pike agrees to marry for inheritance money, but his businesslike plan may cost him more than he expects.

Mercy Fairchild agrees to trust a matchmaker and head west in search of God's plan, hoping for purpose and adventure. Widower Ace Caldwell needs someone strong enough to handle his children and the life he barely manages himself.

Alice Connelly skips the mail-order bride path and takes a restaurant job in Carrie Town instead, hoping work will help her sort out her future. A baking contest and more than one interested suitor quickly make things complicated.

Selah Anderson dreams of baking for a living and finding a husband who shares that dream. Instead, the matchmaking service pairs her with a practical stagecoach driver whose dangerous work could carry her far from the life she imagined.

Telegraph operator Willow Graham loves open air and independence, but her family expects her to return to city life. A correspondence with hardworking Leo Weaver may force both of them to rethink what home should look like.

A woman agrees to a proxy marriage, hoping for security and a place to belong, only to find that life with Bear is anything but straightforward. Frontier hardship and wary hearts make trust the hardest part of the bargain.

A proxy marriage sends a hopeful bride west to meet Zebedee, where frontier realities quickly test what looked simple on paper. Duty, uncertainty, and growing affection turn a practical arrangement into a real risk.

In 1917, Adella longs to do more than live a sheltered life and begins writing letters of encouragement to lonely soldiers. Across an ocean and a war, one young man starts building his hope around her words.

A disappointed mail-order bride and a hardened rancher make an uneasy match in this western romance. What begins as a practical arrangement has to survive pride, uncertainty, and two people who expect very little from love.

Bethel is tired of life on the move, selling her father's questionable sauce and dodging sheriffs from town to town. Bart Bailey needs help with two young nieces, not more chaos, but Bethel arrives bringing both trouble and possibility.

Orphaned Ella heads west as a mail-order bride, hoping Oklahoma's promise of new land might also mean a new life. But choosing a husband from the Bolton brothers turns a practical plan into a gamble of the heart.

Tired of her father's wandering, humiliating life, Olive takes work as a seamstress in Carrie Town and plans to depend only on herself. But Christmas, community, and one stubborn bachelor may challenge that resolve.

Joseph Evans is a widowed blacksmith who needs a miracle more than a wife, though he does not know it yet. Birdie has troubles of her own, and their arranged match may rescue them both.

After losing her teaching position, hopeful Carrie Ann Dixon turns to a matchmaker and asks for adventure. Gabe Russell wants a practical woman to help run his home and care for his younger siblings, not someone who upends his careful schedule.

Abilene is a hopeless romantic on the run who still believes peace, love, and a country home might be possible. Sheriff Mark Joseph believes love leads only to pain, which makes their match a dangerous one for both hearts.

With only a quilt and a little grit to her name, Clementine agrees to a proxy marriage after aging out of the orphanage. Her new husband, reclusive rancher Caleb Ellis, wants convenience, not closeness.

Former Union officer Grady Buchanan wants peace, solitude, and a sensible wife if he must marry at all. Bethany Murphy, a spirited Southern woman on the run, brings a ready-made family, Christmas hope, and far more life than he planned for.

Abandoned as a child and raised in a children's home, Georgia longs for love and acceptance but trusts no easy promise. A reclusive blacksmith who prefers horses to people is the last man she expects to matter.

Annabelle Ryan hopes a western match will finally give her stability and acceptance, despite the prejudice she has known all her life. Asa Bailey may be a good man, but his meddling mother makes every step toward love harder.

Hiram thinks one mail-order bride is on the way, but two women arrive and one of them is not who she claims to be. A sheriff, a teacher, and an imposter make for a deeply tangled road to love.

Raised in a children's home, Ruby tries a matchmaking agency with more caution than confidence. When a winter crisis throws her into the path of a reclusive mountain man, survival and love suddenly become tangled together.

Stranded far from Boston with nothing left of the future she was promised, a desperate woman is rescued out of the snow by Brady Holt. The former Union officer has battles of his own, and neither of them is ready for what follows.