Wild Air Books in Order

Wild Air is Joanne Bischof in a different mode. Instead of the Blue Ridge or a circus lot, this story starts in present-day California and hits the road, trading sweeping historical atmosphere for a lean, emotional road trip.

At the center is Riley Kane.

In To Get to You, Riley is eighteen, angry, and still carrying the wound left by a father who walked away. When his best friend ends up stranded in a New Mexico hospital as her father fights for life, Riley is determined to get to her. The problem is that his own car fails almost immediately, leaving him with the one option he least wants: riding east with the pro-surfer father he barely knows.

That setup makes the book work on two tracks at once. On one level, it is a fast, readable trip through miles of highway, old arguments, and forced proximity. On another, it is a story about what happens when a young man has to face the person he has built so much hurt around, while also trying to show up for someone he cares about.

The Wild Air label fits the book's restless feeling. The story moves through open roads, changing weather, and all the emotional whiplash that comes with a trip you never wanted to take. Riley is not an easy, polished hero at the start, and that helps the book feel lived in. He is defensive, wounded, and trying to outrun more than one kind of loss.

Because this series currently begins with To Get to You, it reads more like a self-contained contemporary than a sprawling sequence. That is part of its appeal. You get a full emotional arc, a clear sense of place, and the same faith-forward hope Bischof brings to her historical novels, but in a tighter, younger, more modern frame.

It is a father-son story as much as a romance.

Expect a mix of longing, stubbornness, humor, and second chances, with a light young adult feel and real emotional stakes underneath. If you want to see what Joanne Bischof does when she leaves the past behind and writes about fast-moving hurt in the present, Wild Air is the place to start.