Wells Landing Books in Order
Part ofAmy Lillard Books in OrderExplore the Wells Landing books by Amy Lillard in order, with summaries, series background, and help choosing the best place to begin.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
11 books
Caroline's Secret
by Amy Lillard
2014
Single mother Caroline Hostetler comes to Wells Landing determined to build a safe new life for herself and her daughter. Then a man from her past arrives, threatening the secret she has worked hard to leave behind.
Courting Emily
by Amy Lillard
2015
Emily Ebersol has always expected her childhood sweetheart Luke to come back to Wells Landing and choose her. But as dependable Elam Rhiel steps closer and Luke finally returns, Emily must decide what love really looks like.
Lorie's Heart
by Amy Lillard
2015
When Lorie Kauffman's father dies, she discovers he had been living a secret second life in Tulsa. The search for answers pulls her toward the Englisch world, and a kind outsider may change where she believes she belongs.
Just Plain Sadie
by Amy Lillard
2016
Sadie Kauffman has always been expected to marry her old friend Chris, even if her heart is not fully in it. Meeting kind Mennonite Ezra Hein forces her to choose between practicality, faith, and real joy.
Titus Returns
by Amy Lillard
2016
After serving time for a tragic car wreck, Titus Lambert returns to Wells Landing unsure he still belongs there. Helping a struggling family gives him a path toward redemption, but love makes his choices even harder.
Marrying Jonah
by Amy Lillard
2017
Sarah Yoder has loved Jonah Miller for years from a careful distance. When heartbreak and one impulsive night push Jonah to propose out of duty, both of them have to ask whether a marriage built on honor can become love.
A Wells Landing Christmas
by Amy Lillard
2018
Ivy Weaver has long been an outsider in Wells Landing, and Zeb Brenneman is the last person she wants back in her life. But at Christmas, old mistakes, new revelations, and still-lingering love force them to face the past.
The Quilting Circle
by Amy Lillard
2018
This Wells Landing collection follows three Amish women linked by friendship, faith, and quilting. As Clara Rose, Mariana, and Tess face love, loss, and marriage, the circle around them becomes a source of real strength.
Loving Jenna
by Amy Lillard
2020
Jenna Burkhart is tired of being told what she cannot do. In Wells Landing, she meets Buddy Miller, and together they start imagining a life shaped by courage, independence, and a love few people believe they can manage.
Romancing Nadine
by Amy Lillard
2020
Nadine Burkhart comes to Wells Landing to help her family, not to fall in love. But kind, persistent Amos Fisher keeps showing up, and this later-in-life romance asks whether practicality has kept Nadine lonely for too long.
A New Love for Charlotte
by Amy Lillard
2021
Widow Charlotte Burkhart thinks she is too late for the life she wants, until a baby appears on her doorstep. As one suitor hesitates and another steps forward, Charlotte has to decide what kind of second chance she truly wants.
Series background & context
Wells Landing is one of Amy Lillard's biggest and most fully developed Amish worlds. Set in an Amish community in Oklahoma, the series blends courtship stories, family dramas, seasonal books, and connected side stories into something that feels much broader than a simple run of standalones.
The real draw is the town itself.
From Caroline's Secret through A New Love for Charlotte, Wells Landing grows into a place readers can settle into. Families reappear. Old decisions echo forward. Younger characters become older ones. Later books widen the lens even more, bringing in three generations of women, quilting circles, marriages under strain, widows, and people who arrive hoping for a new start.
That range is part of what makes the series special. Lillard is not only interested in first love. She writes about second chances, single parents, grief, forgiveness, awkward courtships, and the practical side of building a life in a close-knit religious community. The romances are important, but they are held inside a broader picture of what a town is and how people live together.
The Oklahoma setting also gives the books a slightly different feel from many Amish romances. Wells Landing has the familiar rhythms readers expect, faith, work, meals, buggy travel, community standards, but it is not Pennsylvania again. That change of place helps the series stand out.
If you like long community series where one book leads naturally into the next, Wells Landing is probably the best place to start with Lillard's Amish fiction. You can read the romances individually, but the biggest reward comes from seeing how the town changes over time and how people keep crossing paths.
It is a warm series, but not a weightless one. People hurt each other here. They lose loved ones, make bad choices, carry secrets, and sometimes wait a long time for a better chapter. That depth is a big part of why readers stay.
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