Marta Perry Books in Order
See the Marta Perry linked title connected to Karen Harper, with reading order notes, a short overview, and background for Amish suspense readers.
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Publication Order
83 books
A Father's Promise
by Marta Perry
1998
Compassionate teacher Leigh Christopher bonds with hearing-impaired Sarah and clashes with her fiercely protective father, Daniel Gregory. As Leigh helps the child find confidence, she sees that Daniel's wounded heart needs healing, too.
Since You've Been Gone
by Marta Perry
1999
Nick returns to the town that cast out his father, determined to settle old scores and close the mill that keeps it alive. Falling again for widow Emily and her two boys forces him to choose between revenge and mercy.
Desperately Seeking Dad
by Marta Perry
2000
Lawyer Anne Morden is ready to adopt baby Emilie until police chief Mitch Donovan refuses to give up his rights. Their fight over the child soon becomes a test of trust, faith, and what family really means.
The Doctor Next Door
by Marta Perry
2000
Rebecca Forrester has loved Brett Elliot since childhood, but the doctor who returns to Bedford Creek plans to leave again. As the town's clinic needs him, Rebecca hopes he will finally see where his future, and his heart, belong.
A Father's Place
by Marta Perry
2001
Paula Hansen returns to Bedford Creek to help her ailing aunt and finds herself under the same roof as Alex Caine, the man she once loved. Old wounds, a troubled boy, and a second chance make staying away impossible.
Father Most Blessed
by Marta Perry
2001
Widower Quinn Forrester comes back to Bedford Creek expecting a brief stay, until his young daughter starts matchmaking. Gentle Sunday school teacher Ellie Wayne may be exactly what both father and child have been missing.
A Mother's Wish
by Marta Perry
2002
World-weary Matt Caldwell comes home to Caldwell Cove and unexpectedly becomes business partners with widow Sarah Reed. As they work side by side, old wrongs and new hopes begin to reshape both their lives.
A Time to Forgive
by Marta Perry
2002
Tory Marlowe returns hoping Adam Caldwell will remember the promise that still binds them. Adam is guarded by old pain, but Tory's steady faith may be the one thing that can bring him back to love.
Hunter's Bride
by Marta Perry
2002
Chloe Caldwell lets her family believe she is dating her hard-driving boss, Luke Hunter, and suddenly the lie takes them both home to Caldwell Cove. Back among family and faith, Chloe starts to see the man behind Luke's polished edge.
Always In Her Heart
by Marta Perry
2003
Past love and unfinished questions rise again when a woman returns to the people she once left behind. To move forward, both she and the man she never quite forgot must face what still lives in their hearts.
Promise Forever
by Marta Perry
2003
Tyler Winchester gets proof he has a son he never knew about, pulling him back to Miranda Caldwell, the woman he once married and lost. Reconnecting with Miranda and the child tests his ambition, pride, and capacity for family.
The Doctor's Christmas
by Marta Perry
2003
A holiday homecoming brings a caring doctor face to face with love, family expectations, and the needs of a small community. Christmas turns a professional duty into a deeply personal choice.
Hero in Her Heart
by Marta Perry
2004
Animal-rescue owner Nolie Lang needs injured firefighter Gabriel Flanagan's help to win a vital grant. Their partnership is rocky at first, but Gabe's courage and Nolie's compassion slowly turn need into love.
True Devotion
by Marta Perry
2004
Faith and loyalty are tested when a growing romance is pulled into family pressures and hard choices. Both leads must decide whether devotion means holding on, letting go, or trusting God with the outcome.
Her Only Hero
by Marta Perry
2005
When danger and uncertainty crowd in, a woman finds unexpected strength in the man beside her. But both must learn that real heroism means honesty, sacrifice, and staying when it matters most.
Hero Dad
by Marta Perry
2005
A man used to rescuing others is suddenly faced with the everyday demands of fatherhood. Love arrives not with fireworks, but through the patient work of building a home and earning trust.
Unlikely Hero
by Marta Perry
2005
A polished heroine and a man with a rougher past are thrown together when trouble hits close to home. What begins as reluctance becomes a tender story about courage, faith, and seeing worth where others miss it.
In the Enemy's Sights
by Marta Perry
2006
Threatened by forces she barely understands, a woman is forced to rely on the one man she is not sure she can trust. Faith and courage become her only refuge as danger closes in.
Land's End
by Marta Perry
2006
On the South Carolina coast, a woman returns to a place full of hard memories and unfinished business. The closer she gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that someone wants the past to stay buried.
Season Of Secrets
by Marta Perry
2006
Dinah Westlake witnessed her pregnant cousin's murder as a teen, but trauma stole her memory of that night. When dangerous accidents shadow a Charleston Christmas, the truth starts returning, along with feelings for the widower once under suspicion.
Tangled Memories
by Marta Perry
2006
A buried past and a broken trail of memory place a heroine in the middle of a dangerous mystery. To survive, she must untangle what really happened before the killer reaches her first.
A Soldier's Heart
by Marta Perry
2007
An injured veteran comes home carrying more than physical scars. Healing begins when a compassionate woman sees the man beneath the uniform and asks him to believe in a future again.
Hearts Afire
by Marta Perry
2007
Firefighter-paramedic Terry Flanagan fights for a clinic serving migrant families, only to clash with Dr. Jacob Lansdowne, the man assigned to oversee it. Shared grief and hard work push them toward trust and a deeper calling.
Hide in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
2007
Trouble erupts when a woman returns to Amish country and discovers that the quiet life around her is anything but safe. Family ties, buried secrets, and a growing attraction make hiding impossible.
Restless Hearts
by Marta Perry
2007
Midwife Fiona Flanagan heads to Pennsylvania Dutch country to find her roots and collides with police chief Ted Rittenhouse. Both feel caught between worlds, and opening their hearts may be the bravest step either takes.
Mission: Motherhood
by Marta Perry
2008
Caitlyn Villard leaves New York for Prairie Springs after her sister's death makes her guardian to young twin nieces. With army chaplain Steve Windham's help, the life she meant to escape begins to look like home.
Leah's Choice
by Marta Perry
2009
Amish teacher Leah Beiler is caught between steady widower Daniel Glick and the former fiance who once broke her heart. In Pleasant Valley, love means choosing not just a man, but the life she truly wants.
Twice in a Lifetime
by Marta Perry
2009
A past love gets a rare second chance when old feelings flare in a changed world. Family loyalties and hard-earned wisdom make this reunion sweeter, and riskier, than the first time around.
Twin Targets
by Marta Perry
2009
Identical twins Ruby and Jade are thrown into danger after murder puts one of them in a killer's path. With lives and identities at stake, trust becomes as important as protection.
Anna's Return
by Marta Perry
2010
Anna Beiler comes back to Pleasant Valley with a baby she must protect and a past she has not truly faced. Sanctuary, forgiveness, and an old friend named Samuel may give her a chance to start over.
Heart of the Matter
by Marta Perry
2010
A family crisis strips away polite defenses and forces two people to confront what matters most. In the pressure of everyday responsibilities, love grows in the one place neither expected.
Murder in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
2010
A non-Amish lawyer and police chief Adam Byler join forces when an Amish teenager is accused of murder. Their search for the truth cuts through old loyalties, deep prejudice, and real danger in Lancaster County.
Rachel's Garden
by Marta Perry
2010
Widowed Rachel Brand struggles to raise three children and keep the dairy farm going after her husband's death. When Gideon Zook offers to build the greenhouse Ezra promised her, grief and new hope begin to grow side by side.
The Guardian's Honor
by Marta Perry
2010
Duty draws a protective hero into the orbit of a woman who needs help but resists depending on anyone. On the South Carolina coast, honor, family, and faith all come under pressure.
Danger in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
2011
News photographer Libby Morgan returns to Lancaster County to help a friend in trouble and runs straight into her past with police chief Adam Byler. When an innocent woman is attacked, old feelings take a back seat to a far more urgent threat.
Katie's Way
by Marta Perry
2011
Katie Miller opens a quilt shop that brings Amish and English women together, and not everyone is pleased. Vandalism, town tensions, and quiet craftsman Caleb Brand make her fresh start more complicated than she planned.
Lost in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
2011
This shorter Amish suspense tale follows a woman caught between family duty and sudden danger. In a community built on trust, the wrong secret can become deadly.
Sarah's Gift
by Marta Perry
2011
Young widow Sarah Mast moves to Pleasant Valley to join her aunt's midwife practice, only to find the work and the community both under strain. With neighbor Aaron Miller watching closely, Sarah must prove she belongs.
Vanish in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
2011
A disappearance shatters the calm of Amish country and pulls old emotions to the surface. Solving the case means confronting secrets that people close to the community would rather keep hidden.
A Christmas to Die For
by Marta Perry
2012
The holiday season should bring comfort, but for one of the Hampton sisters it opens the door to fresh danger. In Amish country, a Christmas mystery turns deadly fast.
Buried Sins
by Marta Perry
2012
Caroline Hampton begins to fear her supposedly dead husband may still be alive after unsettling incidents drive her to her sisters' inn. Police chief Zachary Burkhalter thinks she knows more than she is saying, and danger keeps closing in.
Dark Crossings
by Marta Perry
2012
Three Amish romantic suspense novellas share this collection. Karen Harper's story, The Covered Bridge, follows Ben Kline as he returns home to protect Abigail Baughman, and the community that once cast him out.
Final Justice
by Marta Perry
2012
Mason Grant learns he has a nine-year-old daughter who has been hidden in a killer's custody. Reunited with old friend Jennifer Pappas, he must fight for the child and bring the past to its final reckoning.
Hannah's Joy
by Marta Perry
2012
Widowed Hannah seeks refuge in Pleasant Valley with her baby son and no clear future. As she grows closer to gentle furniture maker William Brand, she must decide where she and Jamie truly belong.
Her Surprise Sister
by Marta Perry
2012
Violet Colby is stunned to discover she has an identical twin she never knew existed. As family secrets unravel at the Colby Ranch, she finds herself drawn to businessman Landon Derringer.
Naomi's Christmas
by Marta Perry
2012
Naomi Esch has spent years caring for her father and siblings, only to find herself suddenly without a home of her own. A practical arrangement with widower Nathan King may be perfect for everyone except their guarded hearts.
Danger in Amish Country
by Marta Perry
2013
This suspense collection drops danger into quiet Amish settings where faith and community are constantly tested. Each story blends romance with threats that feel far too close to home.
Home by Dark
by Marta Perry
2013
A woman returns to the Pennsylvania town tied to her childhood and finds that old fears were never really gone. The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous the dark becomes.
Lydia's Hope
by Marta Perry
2013
Lydia Beachy has always been grateful to the aunt and uncle who raised her, until a discovery reveals siblings she never knew existed. Her search for the truth becomes a tender story about identity, family, and faith.
Search the Dark
by Marta Perry
2013
A search for answers pulls another woman back to the place where a long-ago summer changed everything. Clues, hidden motives, and old loyalties turn the investigation into a personal fight for survival.
Susanna's Dream
by Marta Perry
2013
Susanna Bitler is already reeling from grief and business worries when two women reveal themselves as her long-lost sisters. Reunited family brings comfort, but it also forces Susanna to rethink the life she has built.
Abandon the Dark
by Marta Perry
2014
The final return to this Pennsylvania town brings the oldest secrets into the open. To end the danger, the heroine must stop running from the past and face what has haunted them all.
An Amish Family Christmas
by Marta Perry
2014
Christmas in Amish country stirs up old hurts, family obligations, and the possibility of grace. In the middle of winter, Perry gives her characters a warm chance at renewal.
The Forgiven
by Marta Perry
2014
Widowed Rebecca Fisher struggles to keep her home and children afloat, and renting space to troubled carpenter Matthew Byler feels risky. Hidden within family diaries, a second story from 1941 shows another woman learning the cost of love, grief, and forgiveness.
The Rescued
by Marta Perry
2015
Judith Wegler is trying to hold her family together while her husband stays silent about the fire that shaped his life. When old letters surface from the 1950s school struggle, past courage helps her face present pain.
When Secrets Strike
by Marta Perry
2015
Quilter Sarah Bitler has rebuilt her life around Blackburn House, but a suspicious fire brings widowed firefighter Aaron King back into it. When Aaron becomes the prime suspect in a string of arsons, Sarah has to decide whether love is worth trusting again.
Where Secrets Sleep
by Marta Perry
2015
Allison Standish inherits Blackburn House in Laurel Ridge and plans to sell it, until the people and history attached to it pull her in. Threats mount, and with carpenter Nick Whiting at her side, she begins to suspect her grandmother's death was no accident.
Fallen in Plain Sight
by Marta Perry
2016
Another threat shakes Amish country as old wounds and fresh suspicions collide. The people caught in the middle must decide whom to trust before another life is lost.
How Secrets Die
by Marta Perry
2016
The history of Blackburn House refuses to stay buried as danger returns to Laurel Ridge. Solving the mystery means exposing the final secret, no matter how painful the truth may be.
The Rebel
by Marta Perry
2016
Restless Barbie Lapp has been stepping outside Amish expectations, while stern minister Benuel Kauffman cannot ignore her effect on his troubled family. A grandmother's dower chest links Barbie's choice to an older story of love and change.
Echo of Danger
by Marta Perry
2017
A woman drawn to Echo Falls by unanswered questions finds a town where every answer seems to hide another secret. With danger rising, trust becomes harder, and more necessary, by the hour.
Second Chance Amish Bride
by Marta Perry
2017
Returning to Lost Creek means facing old heartbreak, family pain, and the community that remembers everything. A fresh start begins to look like love when the past is finally faced.
Sound of Fear
by Marta Perry
2017
Amanda Curtis discovers the woman who raised her is not her birth mother and follows the clues to Echo Falls. Attorney Trey Addison tries to protect her, but the truth she seeks may shatter both of them.
Shattered Silence
by Marta Perry
2018
The past falls apart in Echo Falls when silence can no longer protect anyone. In this suspenseful finale, buried truths come at a cost, but staying quiet costs even more.
The Wedding Quilt Bride
by Marta Perry
2018
A single mother gets an unexpected second chance at love when wedding preparations, family expectations, and quilt-shop life bring her close to a man she never truly forgot.
A Christmas Home
by Marta Perry
2019
Sarah Yoder returns to Promise Glen determined to start over and takes a job with widowed woodworker Noah Raber. Helping with the Christmas program, and caring for his twin boys, makes professional distance harder by the day.
Amish Outsider
by Marta Perry
2019
Widower Michael Forster comes back to the Amish community he left with his daughter, hoping to escape suspicion after his estranged wife's murder. Schoolteacher Catherine Brandt sees the child's pain first, but helping her means getting close to a man with enemies.
The Promised Amish Bride
by Marta Perry
2019
Aaron King returns to Lost Creek after losing his job in the English world, unsure whether he belongs there anymore. Training a horse with childhood friend Sally Stoltzfus starts to feel like the beginning of a new life.
A Springtime Heart
by Marta Perry
2020
Dorcas Beiler has remade herself as a serious schoolteacher, but the return of her first love threatens the careful life she built. Construction work at the school, and a room full of observant children, give old feelings a way to bloom again.
Amish Protector
by Marta Perry
2020
Trouble follows the people of River Haven when danger targets those already carrying private burdens. Protection and romance grow together as the threat moves closer to home.
Amish Secrets
by Marta Perry
2020
Rachel Hurst takes a job as housekeeper in an isolated mansion after her family life is upended, only to face sabotage and suspicion. The one man she once turned away, Jacob Beiler, may be the only person willing to believe her.
Lone Star Promises
by Marta Perry
2020
In Texas, promises made long ago begin to shape a new chance at home, love, and belonging. Perry mixes family pressures with a tender romance that asks whether two people can build something lasting.
The Amish Widow's Heart
by Marta Perry
2020
A widow determined to stand on her own finds that grief has not closed her heart as tightly as she thought. In Lost Creek, faith, family, and a patient hero challenge her plans for a solitary future.
A Harvest of Love
by Marta Perry
2021
Widowed Dinah Hershberger agrees to escort a baby to his uncle and soon finds herself working alongside kind, overwhelmed Jacob Miller. Love feels risky for both of them, but autumn in Promise Glen has surprises left.
A Secret Amish Crush
by Marta Perry
2021
Lydia Stoltzfus is happy running her Amish coffee shop until her old crush Simon Fisher returns with a shy little daughter. What starts with a child needing care may end with a whole community nudging two guarded hearts together.
Nursing Her Amish Neighbor
by Marta Perry
2021
Nurse Miriam Stoltzfus comes home to Lost Creek and finds Matthew King badly injured and drowning in grief after an accident. Caring for him is only the beginning of helping him believe he still has a life worth claiming.
Finding Her Way
by Marta Perry
2022
A woman at a crossroads has to choose between the safe path and the one that feels truer to who she is. Faith, family, and an unexpected relationship help her see what home might really mean.
The Second Christmas
by Marta Perry
2022
Back in Promise Glen after a bruising year, Leah Stoltz hopes a quiet Christmas will help her heal. Instead, holiday upheaval and a growing bond with a good man make her wonder if joy can come twice.
Thanksgiving Blessing
by Marta Perry
2023
Gratitude is harder than it sounds when family strain, loss, and unexpected love all arrive at once. In this holiday romance, Thanksgiving becomes the moment a heroine finally sees what she still has to build on.
The Promise of Easter
by Marta Perry
2023
Spring brings new hope to an Amish heroine still carrying winter's hurts. As Easter nears, old grief and new affection force her to believe that fresh beginnings are possible.
The Widow's Bachelor Bargain
by Marta Perry
2024
A practical agreement between a widow and a bachelor promises help, not romance. In Lost Creek, though, shared responsibilities have a way of opening guarded hearts.
Match Made at the Amish Inn
by Marta Perry
2025
An Amish inn becomes the perfect setting for meddling neighbors, second chances, and a carefully arranged courtship that does not go quite as planned.
The Amish Matchmakers
by Marta Perry
2025
Matchmaking takes center stage as several determined meddlers set out to guide hesitant hearts in Lost Creek. The result is a warm community romance full of gentle humor and faith.
Where should I start?
If you want Amish community romance: Leah's Choice → Rachel's Garden → Anna's Return → Sarah's Gift
If you want Amish suspense: Murder in Plain Sight → Vanish in Plain Sight → Danger in Plain Sight
If you want family history woven into the romance: The Forgiven → The Rescued → The Rebel
If you want a newer small-town Amish series: A Christmas Home → A Springtime Heart → A Harvest of Love
Author bio
Marta Perry knew early what she wanted. At eight, after reading her first Nancy Drew book, she was not dreaming of becoming the detective. She wanted to be the person who made the story.
That idea sat quietly for a long time.
Before novels, Perry wrote in smaller forms and more practical ones. While working as a Director of Christian Education, she began writing short children's stories for Sunday school take-home papers. One of those early pieces sold on its third submission, for sixteen dollars, and she has said that was enough to convince her there was no turning back. Hundreds of magazine stories followed before she moved on to the longer fiction she had always wanted to write.
Pennsylvania shaped almost everything that came after. Perry has spent most of her life in rural Pennsylvania, and she draws on her Pennsylvania Dutch roots in book after book. She has described Pleasant Valley, one of her best-known Amish settings, as a valley based very much on what she sees when she looks out her office window. Food, family, church life, and the pull between tradition and change all show up again and again in her fiction.
That background helped her find the lane many readers know her for now.
Her Amish novels tend to mix everyday community life with personal crossroads. In Leah's Choice, Rachel's Garden, and Anna's Return, she writes about teachers, widows, and women coming home to Pleasant Valley with more on their minds than romance. The Keepers of the Promise books widen the frame, weaving present-day love stories together with diaries, letters, and older family histories. In later series like Promise Glen, she keeps the same warm attention to work, family duty, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
She also likes turning up the pressure. Books like Murder in Plain Sight, Where Secrets Sleep, and Amish Outsider bring crime, hidden motives, and real physical danger into Amish country without losing sight of the people at the center. Even in suspense, Perry's stories usually stay grounded in community. Readers come for the mystery, but they often stay for the sense that farms, shops, schools, and church basements matter just as much as the plot twists.
Over the years, that steady approach has built a long career. Perry has published more than seventy novels, and her work has picked up honors including a RITA finalist nod, a HOLT Medallion win, and the Maroon and Gold Pen Award from the Bloomsburg University Library Association. Those awards say something, but so does the range of her backlist. She has written small-town contemporary romance, Amish family stories, romantic suspense, and holiday books, often moving from one kind of story to another without losing her voice.
She still sounds like someone who likes the work.
Perry lives with her husband in a century-old farmhouse in the Pennsylvania countryside, and she spends winters at a home in South Carolina. When she is not writing, she has said she enjoys church life, travel, gardening, baking, and time with her three children and six grandchildren. That mix of steadiness and curiosity feels a lot like her books. They are rooted in place, interested in ordinary people, and always watching for the moment when a life can change.
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