Linda K Hubalek Books in Order

Kajsa Svensson Runeberg recounts, through diary entries, how her Swedish immigrant family built a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie. It is an intimate homestead story shaped by weather, loss, work, and stubborn endurance.

This companion volume gathers old recipes, household wisdom, and homestead flavor from the world of the Butter in the Well family. It offers a practical, personal taste of pioneer cooking and memory.

The story shifts to Alma Swenson as she grows up on the prairie farm her parents carved from Kansas grassland. Her diary traces daily work, family ties, and the slow blooming of a young woman into adult life.

At age seventy-five, Kajsa looks back over five decades on the farm she first homesteaded as a young immigrant wife. Her memories turn prairie change, family history, and old griefs into a gentle final reckoning.

Charlotta Johnson leaves drought-stricken Sweden in 1868 and heads for America with more questions than answers. Her journey by ship and rail ends on the open Kansas prairie, where hope and fear travel together.

Charlotta and her husband work to turn raw grassland into a real Kansas farm. Crop failures, isolation, and the grind of daily survival test the dream they crossed an ocean to pursue.

At the end of a long life, Charlotta looks back over decades of family change on the prairie. Her memories turn hardship, loss, and small joys into a gentle reckoning with the life she built.

Deborah Pieratt writes letters as her Kentucky family travels by wagon to Kansas in 1854. Daily chores, camp life, and brewing political trouble show how a hopeful journey can shape generations.

Orphaned Maggie Kennedy writes through the Civil War years as violence and uncertainty close in on Kansas families. It is a quiet but forceful story about women carrying homes and hopes through chaos.

Widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy brings eight children from Ohio to Kansas and lands in the middle of Bleeding Kansas. Her letters trace the fear, grit, and stubborn resolve it takes to hold a homestead together.

Mail-order bride Millie Donovan arrives in Kansas to learn her intended groom has died. Town marshal Adam Wilerson offers shelter for Millie and the little boy in her care, but violence in Clear Creek soon puts their fragile new start at risk.

Swedish-born cattlewoman Rania Hamner has learned not to trust men after years on the trail from Texas to Kansas. Rancher Jacob Wilerson wants her from the moment she rides into town, but danger from her past threatens any future together.

Kizzie Pieratt packs for a temporary move from Kansas to Indian Territory, carrying trunks, quilts, and stories from earlier generations. The journey becomes a family history told through the handmade things women leave behind.

Widowed Cate Wilerson decides she is ready for a second marriage and already knows the man she wants. But when Isaac Connely's past resurfaces, old guilt and buried secrets stand between longtime friendship and long-delayed love.

After being humiliated at her own wedding, Boston-bred Cora Elison escapes to her family's Kansas ranch. She falls for Swedish cowboy Dagmar Hamner, but family pressure and a surprise groom from back East complicate everything.

Tough horsewoman Hilda Hamner buys a Kansas homestead with her race winnings and plans to build a ranch of her own. Then Noah Wilerson comes home to find his claim gone, and their clash over land turns into a stubborn, danger-filled courtship.

After a factory fire destroys her job, Swedish immigrant Lilly Lind answers a mail-order bride ad and heads to Chicago. Kansas rancher Seth Reagan steps in when her groom proves dangerous, and the rescue becomes the start of something real.

Engaged for years yet unsure of her future, Sarah Wilerson meets wounded former captain Marcus Brenner and sees a different life ahead. When she breaks with her safe choice, the two are suddenly tested by healing, duty, and a house full of children.

Divorced mother Darcie Robbins is hiding out on a Kansas ranch, looking for steady work and safety for her children. Drover Reuben Shepard understands loss, but a broken marriage from his own past could wreck their chance at becoming a family.

Helen Higby answers a marriage ad, only to discover her new groom is already married and wanted by the law. Stranded in Clear Creek with four daughters, she helps Ethan Paulson remake his family hotel, but his controlling mother is not ready for change.

Adventurous Bostonian Lorna Jantz comes west as a mail-order bride and is abandoned almost at once, pregnant and penniless. Clear Creek lawyer Lyle Elison helps her chase a swindler and untangle his own inheritance trouble, while both try not to fall in love.

Heavily pregnant widow Tina Martin is badly injured in a Texas train wreck and loses track of her children. Grieving trail boss Leif Hamner finds a newborn tied to the disaster, and their trip north to Kansas becomes a tender, secret-shadowed road to healing.

Train detective Angus Reagan is heading home to Clear Creek when he unexpectedly reunites with Daisy Clancy, the girl he never quite forgot. A wreck and robbery on the journey force the old friends to trust each other in new ways.

Photographer Fergus Reagan saves Iris Kerns from a desperate act and brings her back to Clear Creek to help with his studio. Their fresh start looks promising until the danger Iris tried to escape follows her west.

Gabe Shepard and Iva Mae Paulson should have a clear path to marriage, but family, friends, and small-town mishaps keep throwing obstacles in front of them. Their courtship becomes a funny, heartfelt test of patience and commitment.

A Swedish immigrant man and an Appalachian woman spark trouble as quickly as attraction. Their marriage asks both of them to cross hard cultural ground and choose what kind of home they want to build together.

Rule-bound postmaster Cullen Reagan secretly wrote letters between an illiterate rancher and a mail-order bride. When the arrangement turns personal, he has to decide whether duty matters more than the woman now in his orbit.

Soldier Elof Lundahl begins with a grave marker to deliver in Montana before heading on to Kansas. The solemn errand turns into a story of memory, purpose, and unexpected connection.

Faye Longoria arrives at a ranch with a baby, stolen train fare, and a past she would rather forget. Ranch foreman Rusty Tucker is drawn to her and little Violet, but fitting into family life proves harder than claiming a quick escape.

Carpenter Jasper Kerns is sent chasing a remembered name from Montana, Julip, and the possibility of a different future. What starts as a slim lead becomes a heartfelt search for home and love.

Blacksmith Kiowa Jones keeps to himself in Clear Creek, using silence to hide both prejudice and private truths. When love threatens that careful balance, he must decide whether he can trust a community that has never fully trusted him.

Mack is certain at first sight that the new doctor, Pansy, is meant for him. Winning her heart is another matter, because life in Clear Creek leaves little room for easy courtship or simple answers.

Nolan Clancy's travels take him to Montana, where meeting Holly Brandt changes the route he thought his life would take. The journey back toward Kansas becomes a test of duty, distance, and lasting love.

Seth Reagan leaves Kansas for a livestock show and returns with extra horses, carpetbags, and a wife nobody expected. Now the sudden marriage has to survive family questions and the realities of prairie life.

Wounded veteran Riel Shepherd retreats to his grandfather's Texas ranch after losing a foot in Afghanistan. Widow Jenna McDowell is healing there too, but love asks both of them to face grief, PTSD, and an unexpected family future.

Clear Creek never expected preacher's son Tully Reagan, once known for trouble, to follow in his father's footsteps. To change his future, he has to prove his faith and character are stronger than his old reputation.

Amelia Shepard is happy working in her family's leather business until the Peashooter Society decides she needs a husband. She swaps the man chosen for her and follows her own heart, which makes the matchmaking mess even bigger.

Amy Sanders flees a saloon job by disguising herself as her younger brother and traveling with a load of bulls to Kansas. At the Bar E Ranch, foreman Eli Fisher, who left his Amish community behind, becomes the one man who sees past her disguise and her bruised past.

Independent physician's assistant Avalee Paulson pretends to have a fiancé to dodge both a pest and the Peashooters. Then Gordon Miller agrees to play the part, and the fake arrangement starts feeling uncomfortably real.

Kindhearted Maggie Brenner dreams of helping children more than chasing a husband. When a train accident puts three frightened orphans in her orbit, she and barber Peter Gehring discover they may want the same future after all.

Dressmaker Maisie refuses to accept the neat pairing others choose for her. In true Clear Creek fashion, changing grooms creates confusion, sparks, and a romance that works better off script.

Molly quickly learns that the Peashooters' chosen match is not necessarily the right one. Switching her courtship means risking gossip and hurt feelings, but it may also lead her to the partner she actually wants.

Hotel owner's daughter Nadine Paulson wants real responsibility, not another lecture about dusting. Wesley Preston seems like the wrong man at the wrong time, until rival suitors and meddling sisters force her to decide what she really wants.

Nadine and Wesley's wedding should be the happy finish to the Peashooter Society's matchmaking project. Instead, surprise parties, dress trouble, and rough winter weather turn Christmas in Clear Creek into one last romantic scramble.

The older church women of Clear Creek decide to solve the town's shortage of husbands by recruiting men, jobs, and ready-made matches. Their scheme sets off crossed courtships, bruised pride, and a lot of comic trouble.

Moses Brenner leaves his adoptive grandfather's ranch to trace the wagon-train attack that killed his parents. On Faith Geller's ranch, old graves and old memories make attraction risky for both of them.

Carsten Brenner expects a duty trip, not a romance, when he agrees to escort a woman and help with family business. The miles ahead test what he believes about trust, responsibility, and the future.

Beckett Brenner thinks he can solve a problem with one practical promise. Instead, his good intentions pull him into a deeper tangle where love and obligation become impossible to separate.

A promise made in good faith puts two guarded people on the same path. To build anything lasting, they have to learn that keeping your word is harder, and more personal, than it sounds.

Rancher Luther Tucker's reluctant trip to Yellowstone becomes a rough wilderness journey with guide Myreta Hamman. Forest fires, hidden secrets, and the wreckage of Myreta's past turn the adventure into a hard-earned love story.

Riel and Jenna's hard-won future is tested again when family life refuses to stay simple. New responsibilities, old fears, and sudden joy force them to decide what commitment really looks like.