Lisa Wingate Books in Order

New mother Kate Bowman moves with her husband and baby to Grandma Rose’s Missouri farm, officially to convince the aging matriarch to enter a nursing home. Discovering Rose’s journal of hard-won lessons, Kate begins to question her own frantic pace and what she truly wants from life.

When tornadoes flatten the town of Poetry, Missouri, quiet Jenilee Lane defies her domineering father, rescues her prickly neighbor Eudora Gibson, and starts gathering scattered photos and keepsakes for survivors. In the wreckage, an unlikely friendship forms and Jenilee discovers courage she didn’t know she had.

Big-city reporter Colleen Collins, reeling from a career-ending scandal, heads to tiny San Saline, Texas, to write light pieces about local cooking. Immersed in town life and drawn to True McKittrick, she discovers that food, friendship, and forgiveness can change her story.

When overworked magazine editor Laura Draper detours onto back roads after a crisis at work and in love, she stumbles into a small café in rural Texas. Stranded there for a season, she finds unexpected community, a guitar-strumming cowboy, and a new definition of home.

Paleontologist and single mom Lindsey Attwood is heartsick after her ex takes their daughter to Mexico for the summer. A visit to her sister in San Saline, and an undercover job at a horse-therapy ranch, plunge her into missing fossils, an unruly dog, and a disarming veterinarian.

Downsized from her high-pressure job and warned her cancer may have returned, Karen Sommerfield retreats to Grandma Rose’s old farm in the Missouri Ozarks. There she meets a lonely child, uncovers family history, and lets the whisper of sycamore leaves reshape her ideas of success and love.

Once a promising ballet dancer, Julia Costell now lives with her parents and works as a guidance counselor at a performing-arts school. When gifted but troubled Dell Jordan lands in her office, trying to help the girl forces Julia to face the losses and fears she’s long avoided.

At twenty, musician Dell Jordan appears to have escaped a childhood of neglect, yet questions about her birth parents won’t let go. Following the only clue she has—a name on her birth certificate—she travels into Oklahoma’s Kiamichi Mountains and the Choctaw Nation to search for her own story.

Attorney Rebecca Macklin rushes back to Dallas when she learns her aging father has been wandering the streets alone and his wife is in a nursing home. Forced to linger in her childhood neighborhood, she confronts old wounds, fragile loyalties, and the possibility of a more honest family life.

Television producer Mandalay Florentino arrives in small-town Daily to secretly stage a concert for a singing-show finalist. In a place where everyone talks, secrecy is impossible, and she’s soon entangled with nosy locals, especially widow Imagene Doll—and with questions about success, conscience, and home.

Still grieving the loss of her adopted son and the fraying of her family, Sandra Kaye Darden inherits an old ice-cream truck in Blue Sky Hill. Turning it into a roaming kitchen draws her into the lives of local kids and a single father, and slowly knits her broken heart to the neighborhood.

Horse trainer Lauren Eldridge vowed never to return to Daily, Texas, after a tragic accident. But when her father’s risky film investment depends on her taming an unruly movie horse, she comes home, meets screenwriter Nate Heath, and must face both her grief and a second chance at love.

When Tam Lambert’s comfortable life collapses in foreclosure, her family moves into a tiny house in Blue Sky Hill. Across the street, Shasta Reid-Williams thinks she’s finally found the perfect neighborhood. A shady real-estate scheme threatens them all, forcing neighbors to decide whether to stand together.

After a bitter divorce, social worker Andrea Henderson retreats with her teenage son to a cabin on Moses Lake. Teaming up with game warden Mart McClendon to investigate a reclusive man seen with a mysterious child, she’s drawn into danger, community, and a tentative new beginning.

Kai Miller drifts from job to job and town to town, determined never to settle down. When a hurricane evacuation strands her in tiny Daily, Texas, she’s swept into the orbit of outspoken stylist Donetta Bradford and rancher Kemp Eldridge, and begins to wonder what it might mean to stay.

Sixteen-year-old Epiphany Salerno, tired of being uprooted, lands on the low-rent side of Dallas’s Blue Sky Hill and takes a job keeping cranky widower J. Norman Alvord company. Their uneasy partnership becomes a friendship that uncovers long-buried memories and reshapes both their futures.

Seattle architect Heather Hampton returns reluctantly to her East Texas hometown to push through a land sale tied to her big promotion. Eccentric relatives, an old Mennonite housekeeper, and banker Blaine Underhill complicate everything as long-buried family secrets surface along the shores of Moses Lake.

Capitol Hill staffer Mallory Hale falls in love with Daniel Everson and his little boy, marries quickly, and moves to a remote ranch near Moses Lake. Adjusting to rural life, stepmotherhood, and Daniel’s unsettling new boss, she must decide what she believes about risk, safety, and calling.

Fleeing a dangerous past, single mother Tandi Jo Reese rents a cottage on Hatteras Island and keeps her head down. When her elderly landlady dies, Tandi is asked to clear out the big Victorian house and discovers dozens of prayer boxes that quietly rewrite her ideas of hope and faith.

Burned-out 911 dispatcher Elizabeth Gallagher reluctantly drives to Hatteras Island with her mother to coax Aunt Sandy away before a hurricane hits. Stranded by the storm, the three women confront old regrets, sift through sea glass, and begin to imagine second chances.

A young Army widow brings her little boy to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, hoping the off-season quiet will numb their grief. Drawn into a Christmas Eve gathering at Sandy’s Seashell Shop, she finds unexpected kindness and the first glimmers of joy she thought were gone for good.

New York editor Jen Gibbs finds an anonymous, arresting manuscript about a Melungeon girl in turn-of-the-century Appalachia in an old slush pile. Tracking down the reclusive author sends her back to the Blue Ridge and the strict mountain faith community she once escaped.

Just before her wedding, Tandi Reese is served legal papers for a fraud she didn’t commit and suspects her estranged sister is involved. A tense trip to the North Carolina Tidewater forces both women to face a shared past and a family secret that could finally set them free.

Allie Kirkland jumps at a costuming job on a docudrama filming near Moses Lake that re-creates the vanished 1860s settlement of Wildwood. As the production unfolds, eerie parallels between her life and the story of missing schoolteacher Bonnie Rose suggest that the old legends may still have teeth.

Editor Jen Gibbs has landed bestselling author Evan Hall’s next book—and, to her own surprise, accepted his marriage proposal. Terrified that marriage will crush her dreams as it has for women in her family, she returns home, uncovers her mother’s secret, and rethinks what commitment can look like.

Whitney Monroe is fighting to save her struggling restaurants when she inherits a crumbling Gilded Age hotel on Roanoke Island. Sorting through its attics, she uncovers Depression-era letters from a relative who collected mountain folklore, and a family history that may hold the key to her future.

This collection gathers three Carolina novellas—The Sea Glass Sisters, The Tidewater Sisters, and The Sandcastle Sister—into one volume. Together they trace mothers, daughters, and estranged siblings as hurricanes, lawsuits, and proposals push them to decide what sisterhood really means.

In 1939, twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her siblings are stolen from their riverboat home and funneled through a corrupt Memphis adoption agency. Decades later, South Carolina lawyer Avery Stafford uncovers clues that link her powerful family to those vanished children and a buried scandal.

Co-written with Judy Christie, this nonfiction companion to Before We Were Yours shares the true stories of adults who passed through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. Their accounts of separation, search, and late-life reunion illuminate how one notorious adoption scheme shaped real families.

In 1875 Louisiana, freedwoman Hannie Gossett travels with two white half sisters on a risky trek toward Texas, clinging to newspaper “Lost Friends” ads that might help her find family sold away in slavery. In 1987, new teacher Benny Silva unearths their story and its impact on a struggling rural town.

In 1990, law-enforcement ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at Oklahoma’s Horsethief Trail National Park hoping for a quiet fresh start with her young son, but discovers a missing hiker case and the hidden graves of three children. In 1909, eleven-year-old Ollie Radley flees a dangerous guardian with a Choctaw girl in tow, their flight into the Winding Stair Mountains echoing forward into Val’s investigation.