Stephanie Grace Whitson Books in Order

Jesse King loses everything in a buffalo stampede and is taken in by the Lakota. As she earns a place among strangers and falls for Rides the Wind, tragedy forces her to fight for faith and belonging.

After Little Bighorn, widowed LisBeth King Baird returns to Nebraska to begin again. At the same time, Soaring Eagle, now Jeremiah King, wrestles with identity, inheritance, and the legacy Jesse left behind.

Carrie Brown leaves the Nebraska mission school for St. Louis but cannot forget Soaring Eagle. When both return west, love and divided loyalties force them to question what home, faith, and future really mean.

Aunt Sarah's quilt holds the story of a life few people fully know. As its scraps lead back to an orphan train and a desperate escape, a hard Nebraska past opens into love, family, and survival.

Escaping an arranged marriage, Karyn Ensinger becomes a German mail-order bride on the Nebraska prairie. Her rough new life slowly opens into love, until loss threatens everything she has worked to build.

An antique dealer and a stranger trace the life of a dressmaker through a ribbon strung with collectible buttons. Their search uncovers forgotten hopes, buried grief, and a romance shaped by the past.

After the Dakota War, Gen LaCroix believes Daniel Two Stars is dead and tries to build a new life. Work, faith, and a new proposal offer hope, until the past refuses to stay buried.

Gen LaCroix, the daughter of a Dakota mother and French father, is sent into the missionary world just as the Dakota War of 1862 erupts. Caught between cultures, she must choose whom to trust as violence destroys the life she knows.

Gen and Daniel Two Stars want nothing more than a safe home and a quiet future together. Instead, westward travel, frontier hostility, and fresh loss test both their marriage and their faith.

After a brutal attack in Lakota country, Laina Gray is found hidden in a cellar and brought to Fort Robinson. Safe at last, she still has to decide whether she can trust the people trying to help her.

A gentle children's story centered on a special bear, this book focuses on comfort, kindness, and the steady reassurance found in friendship. It uses a simple, warm touch for younger readers.

Widowed Charlotte Valentine Bishop returns to Fort Robinson with her young son, hoping for peace and refuge. Instead she finds old wounds, fresh responsibilities, and a growing bond with Lieutenant Nathan Boone.

Widowed Mary Davis travels to Paris after a chance discovery stirs memories of her first love. When her driven daughter Liz follows, old wounds threaten both women's hopes for reconciliation and a new future.

At the end of World War II, CJ Jackson brings German prisoner labor to her Nebraska ranch, stirring up fear and resentment in Crawford. As younger and older hearts alike are tested, the war suddenly feels close to home.

Part practical guide and part personal reflection, this short nonfiction book helps readers support someone through loss. It focuses on what to say, what to do, and how to stay present when grief feels overwhelming.

Mary is torn between old and new possibilities in Italy while Liz rushes to Florence as her own life starts to crack. In Tuscany, mother and daughter face hard truths about love, freedom, and each other.

Pamela Nolan has survived breast cancer, but survival has not made marriage easier. As she and her physician husband Michael face another crisis, both must reckon with grief, fear, and what commitment really asks of them.

Imogene Marshall wants horses and open country, not the polished life others have planned for her. A leap toward Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show brings freedom, danger, and hard choices about love and the future she truly wants.

Fleeing a sinister boss, Mattie O'Keefe heads to Deadwood in search of her brother and a better life. Gold dust, hidden motives, and a street preacher complicate her stubborn fight to build a future of her own.

Sixteen Civil War widows travel west expecting homesteads and find themselves advertised as mail-order brides. Five of them band together in Plum Grove, Nebraska, determined to make their own way despite secrets, disappointments, and unwanted suitors.

Privileged Fannie Rousseau travels up the Missouri River chasing a family mystery after her mother's death. Reverend Samuel Beck seems like the wrong companion in every way, yet danger and distance keep drawing them back together.

Drawing on pioneer women's own words and archival photographs, this nonfiction book explores sod house life on the plains. It also includes quilt history and patterns, making the history feel lived-in and hands-on.

Jane Prescott is serving time in the Nebraska State Penitentiary for killing her abusive husband. Friendships with Mamie Dawson and Ellen McKenna, plus a quilt tied to her past, open a path toward truth and hope.

Juliana Sutton's perfect life collapses after her husband's betrayal and sudden death. As foreman Cass Gregory helps with the unfinished mansion, Juliana must decide whether she can trust a man shadowed by her husband's secrets.

Young Emilie Rhodes talks her father into sending her to cover Nebraska's 1890 Chautauqua speakers. There she meets Noah Shaw, whose treasured quilt may hold the answers to a painful family history.

In 1867, Laura Rose White knows how to pilot a Missouri River steamboat, but no one wants a woman at the wheel. To save her family's boat, she must work with rough-edged Finn MacKnight on a perilous river journey.

This omnibus gathers the three quilt-linked Nebraska novels in one volume. It follows women whose lives are changed by prison walls, family secrets, and the messages stitched into treasured quilts.

Irish immigrant Maggie Malone and plantation mistress Elizabeth Blair barely know each other until the Civil War pulls their lives together in Missouri. Friendship, divided loyalties, and unexpected love reshape both women's futures.

Orphaned Annie Paxton and her brothers head to St. Joseph seeking a new start. When the boys join the Pony Express and Annie takes work at a lonely Nebraska station, danger rides close behind every delivery.

Irmagard longs to become a trick rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, despite her mother's objections. An unexpected audition offers freedom, but life on the road tests her courage, faith, and ideas about love.

In this reflective nonfiction book, Whitson looks back on storytelling, research, faith, and the routines that shaped her life at the page. It is a personal look at how books are built over time.

Jilted Isobel joins a cemetery society in 1868 Nebraska and meets Gideon, a disfigured warrior who lives in the shadows. Their unusual bond grows into love, but trust and fear make every step costly.

Three prairie-set historical romances make up this holiday collection, each set in the nineteenth century. The stories follow women facing fresh starts, snowbound trouble, and unexpected love on the plains.