Wild at Heart Books in Order

Wild at Heart is built around a wonderfully offbeat premise: three sisters who fought in the Civil War disguised as boys, pushed into service by a grief-stricken father. When the war ends, they use their veterans’ status to claim homesteads in the Idaho Territory—still pretending to be men on official paperwork.

Each book focuses on a different Wilde sister. In Tried and True, youngest sister Kylie secretly longs for dresses and teacups, not long johns and log cabins. She plans to “prove up” on her claim quickly and head back East, but a land agent sees through her disguise and a string of mysterious attacks forces her to reconsider both her plans and the man who keeps turning up to help.

Now and Forever turns to middle sister Shannon, a hunter more at ease on a mountainside than in a parlor. When a rescue attempt goes sideways, she and a sheep rancher end up stranded together in perilous country and have to navigate both rushing water and unexpected feelings.

In Fire and Ice, oldest sister Bailey, the most hard-edged and competent homesteader of the three, finds herself in a marriage-of-convenience arrangement with neighboring rancher Gage Coulter. He wants her land; she wants independence. Their uneasy partnership is tested by enemies willing to use sabotage, kidnapping, and violence to claim the canyon they both need.

As a whole, the series is about identity—what it means for these women to lay down a false male persona without giving up their strength. Expect equal parts humor, gunfire, and sisterly squabbling as the Wildes slowly trade isolation for community and fear for hard-won joy.