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Scarlett Dunn Books in Order

Browse Scarlett Dunn books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, background notes, and where-to-start tips for her western romances and mysteries.

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Finding Promise

by Scarlett Dunn

2015

After a wagon-train massacre leaves heiress Parker Promise Sinclair without her memory, Jake McBride takes her under his protection. On a dangerous cattle drive, growing trust and attraction may not be enough to outrun the people hunting her.

Promises Kept

by Scarlett Dunn

2015

Victoria Eastman travels to Promise, Wyoming, as a mail-order bride and arrives to find her intended husband dead. Rancher Colt McBride steps in to help, but Victoria's hidden past and a ruthless land grab put any future together at risk.

Christmas at Dove Creek

by Scarlett Dunn

2016

Lily Starr is leading a fragile wagon party to Wyoming by Christmas when she rescues wounded rancher Thorpe Turlow. The hard trail ahead tests their faith and courage, and gives two guarded hearts one more chance at love.

Last Promise

by Scarlett Dunn

2016

Escaping an arranged marriage, English heiress Mary Ann Hardwicke heads west to make a life on her own. Luke McBride admires her grit, but outside threats and his restless nature could cost them the future they both want.

Whispering Pines

by Scarlett Dunn

2017

Rose Langtry returns to Colorado and finds rancher Morgan LeMasters ready to bring her outlaw brother to justice. When danger forces Rose and Morgan into a fragile alliance, old fears give way to love and a fight for home.

Christmas in Whispering Pines

by Scarlett Dunn

2018

Opera star Emma Langtry returns from Europe for Christmas, trailed by a determined French prince and drawn to the town's new pastor. As her outlaw brother brings fresh trouble to Whispering Pines, Emma and Clay must face love, danger, and the past.

Return to Whispering Pines

by Scarlett Dunn

2018

Adelaide Langtry comes home with three abandoned children and a plan to build an orphanage. Sheriff Jack Roper wants to protect them all, but Addie's outlaw brother and frontier danger threaten the family they are starting to form.

Honey Howell comes home to Bardstown to join her grandfather's bourbon business and stumbles into a murder investigation. When another body turns up on the Bluegrass Bourbon Train, Honey, Detective Sam Gentry, and bloodhound Elvis follow the scent into small-town secrets.

Cookbook for Deplorables

by Scarlett Dunn

2020

Dunn combines familiar comfort-food recipes and cocktails with humor inspired by a period of confinement and bitter political debate. The cookbook offers a lighthearted approach to home cooking for readers seeking relief from everyday tensions.

Honey Howell discovers more murders in her Kentucky hometown and joins detective Sam Gentry and her resourceful dog, Elvis, to investigate. A charismatic radio personality may help them untangle the crimes, unless he belongs among the suspects.

Write On

by Scarlett Dunn

2021

Dunn and Nathan Combs offer a compact guide for people beginning to write fiction. Brief, practical tips focus on helping new writers approach their work with useful direction as they take their first steps into storytelling.

The Ghost on the Beach

by Scarlett Dunn

2022

Private investigator Steele Harper struggles to find a kidnapped girl while renovating his beachfront home. A mysterious woman walking the shore draws him toward an unsolved murder and forces him to consider whether ghosts might hold answers.

Christmas Ranch

by Scarlett Dunn

2024

Will Logan inherits a Colorado ranch after a dangerous cattle drive, then falls for a woman whose marriage keeps them apart. Conflicting loyalties and a ruthless neighbor test his resolve to protect his land and those he loves.

Where to start with Scarlett Dunn

If you want her frontier romance at its core: Promises Kept → Finding Promise → Last Promise
If you like connected family sagas: Whispering Pines → Return to Whispering Pines → Christmas in Whispering Pines
If you want a holiday western: Christmas at Dove Creek
If you want her Kentucky-set mystery side: Murder on the Bluegrass Bourbon Train

Murders in Bourbon Country books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Murder on the Bluegrass Bourbon Train"

The Langtry Sisters books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Whispering Pines"

    Whispering Pines

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2017The Langtry Sisters, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Christmas in Whispering Pines"

    Christmas in Whispering Pines

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2018The Langtry Sisters, Book 3
  3. Book cover for "Return to Whispering Pines"

    Return to Whispering Pines

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2018The Langtry Sisters, Book 2

The Langtry Sisters books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Whispering Pines"

    Whispering Pines

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2017The Langtry Sisters, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Return to Whispering Pines"

    Return to Whispering Pines

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2018The Langtry Sisters, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Christmas in Whispering Pines"

    Christmas in Whispering Pines

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2018The Langtry Sisters, Book 3

The McBride Brothers books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Finding Promise"

    Finding Promise

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2015The McBride Brothers, Book 2
  2. Book cover for "Promises Kept"

    Promises Kept

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2015The McBride Brothers, Book 1
  3. Book cover for "Last Promise"

    Last Promise

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2016The McBride Brothers, Book 3

The McBride Brothers books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Promises Kept"

    Promises Kept

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2015The McBride Brothers, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Finding Promise"

    Finding Promise

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2015The McBride Brothers, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Last Promise"

    Last Promise

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2016The McBride Brothers, Book 3

Standalone Scarlett Dunn books

  1. Book cover for "Christmas at Dove Creek"

    Christmas at Dove Creek

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2016
  2. Book cover for "Cookbook for Deplorables"

    Cookbook for Deplorables

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2020
  3. Book cover for "Masquerade and Murder at the Bourbon Ball"
  4. Book cover for "Write On"

    Write On

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2021Writing Tips That Work
  5. Book cover for "The Ghost on the Beach"

    The Ghost on the Beach

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2022Who Killed Eleanor Marlowe
  6. Book cover for "Christmas Ranch"

    Christmas Ranch

    by Scarlett Dunn

    2024

Author bio

Scarlett Dunn was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Bluegrass State has stayed close to her writing life. She grew up in Kentucky with horses around her and a strong interest in the past, especially the pioneers and cowboys of the American West. That mix of local roots and western curiosity helps explain why so many of her novels feel both homespun and wide open.

The West got to her early.

Before publishing fiction, Dunn spent years in corporate work, then turned back toward creative writing. She has described herself as a lifelong, hungry reader, and when she began writing seriously, she moved toward the stories she clearly loved most: historical romance, frontier danger, and people trying to build a decent life under pressure.

Her early books lean into inspirational western romance. The McBride Brothers trilogy, beginning with Promises Kept, brings together ranch country, hidden pasts, and women looking for a fresh start. In that first book, Victoria Eastman heads to Wyoming as a mail-order bride and finds her intended husband dead. Finding Promise widens the canvas with a wagon-train attack, memory loss, and a dangerous cattle drive, while Last Promise follows English heiress Mary Ann Hardwicke as she heads west to escape an arranged marriage and make a life on her own.

Dunn returned to similar territory in the Langtry Sisters novels, starting with Whispering Pines. Those books follow three sisters coming home to Colorado and finding that old grudges, outlaw trouble, and family strain have not settled down in their absence. Readers often come to these stories for the romance, but part of the appeal is the busy frontier world around it: ranch work, rough weather, church life, lawmen, and the feeling that one bad decision can shake a whole town.

She likes women who can ride, work, argue, and still keep hoping.

That shows up again in Christmas at Dove Creek, a winter trail romance built around Lily Starr and wounded rancher Thorpe Turlow. Later, Dunn brought her fiction closer to home with Murder on the Bluegrass Bourbon Train, her first cozy mystery. The setting changed from frontier trails to modern bourbon country, but some of her favorite ingredients stayed the same: a capable central woman, a close-knit community, local color, and danger arriving just when life seems ready to calm down.

Across her books, Dunn keeps returning to second chances, found family, redemption, and the pull between independence and belonging. Her heroes are often ranchers, lawmen, or other steady men who need to relearn trust. Her heroines are practical and resilient, whether they are facing rustlers, a hard trail, or a murder case in Bardstown.

She still lives in Kentucky and has said that many ideas come to her on long walks she calls God walks. She has also been based in Simpsonville, where she enjoys outdoor life and time with family. It suits a writer whose stories so often begin with motion, weather, open land, and the hope of finding home.

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