Soul Sisters at Cedar Mountain Lodge (Judith Keim) Books in Order
Part ofJudith Keim Books in OrderBrowse Judith Keim's Soul Sisters at Cedar Mountain Lodge books in order, with summaries, series background, and help placing her entries in the shared series.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Christmas Dreams
by Ev Bishop
2020
A holiday trip back to Cedar Mountain Lodge turns into a fresh look at love, family, and the life one soul sister thought she wanted. It is a gentle, emotional Christmas story with familiar faces and hopeful turns.
Christmas Hope
by Violet Howe
2020
One of the foster sisters returns to Cedar Mountain Lodge needing more than a holiday getaway. Snow, family ties, and a hopeful new romance make this a warm continuation of the Soul Sisters story.
Christmas Kisses
by Judith Keim
2020
Hailey Kirby heads to Cedar Mountain Lodge for a family wedding, only to find the celebration falling apart before it begins. A secret creative life, a returning musician, and the holiday season push her toward a chance worth taking.
Christmas Rings
by Tess Thompson
2020
Wedding plans, family emotion, and Christmas magic bring another soul sister's story to the forefront. The result is a tender holiday romance wrapped in the series' found-family charm.
Christmas Sisters
by Tess Thompson
2020
After losing her husband and only child, Maddie Kirby chooses to survive Christmas by helping four motherless girls. This moving prologue sets up the foster family bond at the heart of the entire Soul Sisters series.
Christmas Wishes
by Tammy L. Grace
2020
Jo returns home for a family wedding and is unexpectedly reconnected with Luke, an old childhood friend, thanks to a golden retriever. At Cedar Mountain Lodge, Christmas becomes the season that reopens doors she thought were closed.
Christmas Castles
by Judith Keim
2021
Christmas brings one of the Cedar Mountain women to a turning point where family expectations and romance collide. This series entry keeps the focus on sisterhood, healing, and the comfort of a snowy Idaho holiday.
Christmas Peace
by Violet Howe
2021
A holiday homecoming sends one of the soul sisters searching for calm after heartbreak and change. At Cedar Mountain Lodge, love, family, and the Christmas season make peace feel possible again.
Christmas Star
by Tess Thompson
2021
Under the glow of Christmas lights, another soul sister faces old hurts, new love, and the pull of family. Like the rest of the series, it mixes holiday warmth with second chances and found family.
Christmas Surprises
by Tammy L. Grace
2021
Two years after her earlier Cedar Mountain story, Jo is hit by a tragedy that forces a life-changing decision. This tender holiday installment balances family upheaval, grief, and the possibility of a new future.
Christmas Yearnings
by Ev Bishop
2021
Back in the Soul Sisters world, a woman who thought she knew what she wanted finds Christmas stirring old longings and new possibilities. The snowy lodge setting keeps the story warm, hopeful, and full of family feeling.
Christmas Joy
by Judith Keim
2022
At Cedar Mountain Lodge, one of the soul sisters faces a season full of family pressure, hard choices, and the chance for a new beginning. It's another warm, snowy visit to a found family shaped by love and second chances.
Christmas Secret
by Violet Howe
2022
Another soul sister returns to Cedar Mountain Lodge carrying a truth she has kept buried. Between Christmas chaos, family ties, and the hope of romance, the season pushes her toward a long-delayed reckoning.
Christmas Shelter
by Tammy L. Grace
2022
Jo's holiday plans are upended when Gina, and a whole lot of shelter dogs, suddenly need a place to land during a snowstorm. Cedar Mountain Lodge becomes a refuge again as family, love, and Christmas kindness are tested.
Series background & context
Judith Keim's corner of Soul Sisters at Cedar Mountain Lodge begins at the true emotional starting point of the whole project. In Christmas Sisters, she tells the story that makes the rest of the series possible.
That book is the foundation stone.
Maddie Kirby is deep in grief after losing her husband and only child, and Keim does not soften that pain away. But instead of leaving the story there, she has Maddie reach outward. Over one Christmas, Maddie ends up caring for four girls who have lost their own mothers. What starts as a temporary act of compassion becomes a permanent family. That choice, small at first, turns into the entire emotional logic of the shared series.
Keim's later entries keep returning to that sense of family built by action rather than blood alone. Christmas Kisses, Christmas Castles, and Christmas Joy do not simply repeat the prologue's grief. They show what happens years later, when the girls are grown and the family Maddie made is still holding. The stories use weddings, holidays, romantic opportunities, and family pressure to explore what these women owe to the people who raised them and to the lives they are trying to build for themselves.
The setting helps a lot. Cedar Mountain Lodge is not just a scenic backdrop with snow and lights. It is the place where memory lives. Going back there means running into the past, for better and worse. Keim uses that well. Her books in the series tend to feel rooted in return, returning home for Christmas, returning to old relationships, returning to a family structure that can still comfort you even while it asks difficult things from you.
Her tone also fits the series especially well. Keim likes stories where women face disappointment, regroup, and keep loving anyway. That makes her a natural match for a setup built on found family. Even when romance is part of the plot, the larger emotional payoff is usually the sense that people can survive loss and still make a life that feels generous and full.
These books work on their own, but they are richer if you understand the line Keim is carrying through them. Maddie matters. The Christmas season matters. The idea that family can be chosen, protected, and revisited matters most of all.
So what should you expect from Judith Keim's entries?
Expect holiday stories with real emotional weight, not just surface sparkle. Expect sisterhood, homecoming, and women trying to honor the past without getting trapped by it. And expect Cedar Mountain Lodge to feel less like a resort and more like the place where a broken life was first pieced back together.
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