Pat Pritchard Books in Order

If you want the core series first: Luck Of The Draw → King Of Hearts
If you want Civil War and frontier conflict: Yankee Wife → Wish Upon a Hero
If you want small-town Missouri romance: The Book Of Love → The Outlaw Groom
If you want holiday reads: A Lawman For Christmas → Annie's Christmas → Come Home For Christmas
If you want the early contemporary books: Rough Edges → The Candy Dad

Pat Pritchard is the western-romance pen name of Alexis Morgan, a romance writer who grew up near St. Louis, Missouri, and later made the Pacific Northwest her home. Reading came first for her. She has said she grew up on gothic romances and westerns, which helps explain why so many of her books pair practical women with bruised heroes who are trying to do better than their pasts.

That mix of dark mood and frontier grit never really left her.

Morgan studied English in college, and writing eventually became more than a daydream. In interviews, she has talked about working outside the home while raising young kids, then squeezing writing and editing into the corners of family life, including Little League games and violin lessons. It sounds busy because it was, but it also sounds like the kind of routine that builds real writing stamina.

The road to publication was not quick. Her first completed manuscript did not sell, but the next one did, and she sold two books on the same phone call. Then that publisher folded before the second book came out, and she went through a long stretch, nearly seven years, before selling again. That stop-and-start beginning matters because her fiction often has the same feeling: people who get knocked off course, regroup, and keep going.

Under the name Pat Pritchard, she wrote western and historical romances that lean hard into second chances, family burdens, and everyday courage. In Luck Of The Draw, a poker game leaves Cal Preston tied to widow Lily McCord and her threatened ranch. King Of Hearts follows Wade McCord, a lawman working undercover at a stagecoach station while falling for the very woman he may be forced to betray. The setup is classic western romance, but the emotional stakes are what make the books stick.

She also likes building whole communities, not just couples.

Books like Yankee Wife, Wish Upon a Hero, The Book Of Love, The Outlaw Groom, and Come Home For Christmas show that clearly. Her stories return again and again to small Missouri towns, ranches, newspaper offices, boardinghouses, and lawmen who are trying to live honorably after making mistakes. Readers who like her work usually respond to that balance: enough danger to keep things moving, enough tenderness to make the happy ending feel earned, and heroines who are never just waiting around to be rescued.

As Alexis Morgan, she went on to write paranormal romance, fantasy romance, cozy mystery, and contemporary romance, building a much larger body of work that now stretches past fifty novels, novellas, and short stories. She has also been a finalist for major romance awards, including the RITA. These days she still lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, and that long career across different corners of romance makes the Pat Pritchard books interesting to revisit. You can see the roots of a writer who has always liked strong emotion, real obstacles, and people worth rooting for.