Ozark Mountain Books in Order

Twelve-year-old LillieBeth Hazkit believes kindness can reach anyone in the 1920 Ozarks. Her determination to befriend an isolated old neighbor challenges that faith, drawing her into dangers that force her to grow up faster than she expected.

Fired, evicted, and shunned without cause, schoolteacher Susanne Harbowe turns to young LillieBeth Hazkit for help. Together they pursue the men who ruined Susanne’s life, seeking justice and a future beyond the community’s judgment.

After her husband’s murder, Grace Grissom discovers how little protection widows receive in the 1920 Ozarks. With the killers still free and lawmen unwilling to act, she joins LillieBeth Hazkit in a dangerous pursuit of justice.

In the Ozarks of 1925, LillieBeth Hazkit takes in people who have nowhere else to turn. Her determination to live by her faith draws her into dangerous confrontations with moonshiners, racists, and horse thieves threatening her growing household.

Taken in by LillieBeth Hazkit, Mercy hopes to escape the rejection she has faced as a Black former prostitute. Racist vigilantes and hostility within her new household test whether she can find courage and build a safer life.

Leota Wikoff escapes her abusive father and accompanies LillieBeth Hazkit into Arkansas to pursue horse thieves. As they confront the men who stole LillieBeth’s horses, Leota must reconsider her selfishness and her place among her protector’s unlikely companions.