Mail Order Brides of Hickory Stick Books in Order

Widowed Caroline Lovelace leaves impoverished Virginia to marry Thomas Connors in Colorado. During the journey, she discovers two other women carrying his letters, turning her hopes for security into a rivalry over their shared prospective groom.

Joansy Jones escapes her cruel father to become Thomas Connors's mail-order bride. Meanwhile, orphaned Burl Macfee prepares to leave Hickory Stick rather than endure another lonely winter, placing two people seeking a different life on uncertain paths.

Julia promises to help rejected bride Sarah find a husband, but Sarah chooses Sheriff Zane Walker, who is attracted to Julia instead. Julia's growing feelings collide with her loyalty to Sarah and secrets from her past.

With Caroline and Julia married, Sarah Graham feels abandoned and urgently needs a husband. Jackson Connors begins noticing her differently, but his fear that he killed his uncle makes him question whether he has any future.

In Hickory Stick, Hank cannot stop thinking about Lilly's assurance that his life has value. An encounter with an elegant woman and her noisy dog interrupts his brooding, starting their acquaintance with irritation and mutual disapproval.

Driven out of another town and saloon, Lilly boards a train hoping for one more chance. Her search for a different life leads toward Hickory Stick, where her hardened defenses confront the possibility of Christian redemption.

Prudence takes her fatherless young son west in search of safety and a better future. Her arrival unsettles storekeeper Herman, whose success depends on avoiding risk, forcing him to reconsider the caution that has governed his life.

Jacqueline Bedel flees New Orleans, desperate to escape Sebastian and hoping the man whose letter she carries will offer safety. Dr. Blake Morgan wants a wife to ease his loneliness, but alcohol and his past complicate that hope.