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Women of Courage Books in Order

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Explore the Women of Courage series by Geri Foster in order, with episode summaries, background on Gibbs City, and tips before you start this connected story.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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14 books

1

Love Released - Episode Five

by Geri Foster

2015

In the wake of loss and fear, Cora and Virgil try to hold the town together while their own feelings deepen. New threats keep rising, and peace still feels painfully out of reach.

2

Love Released - Episode Four

by Geri Foster

2015

An influenza epidemic sweeps through Gibbs City and forces Cora to step back toward the medical work she thought was lost to her. Virgil can fight many things, but this crisis may be the one he cannot control.

3

Love Released - Episode Six

by Geri Foster

2015

Cora cannot outrun the past forever, and Gibbs City keeps finding fresh ways to test her resolve. Virgil stands beside her, but love will only survive if both of them can face what still hurts.

4

Love Released - Episode Three

by Geri Foster

2015

Cora's past keeps pressing into the life she is trying to build, and Virgil refuses to let her face it alone. Their connection grows stronger just as danger makes emotional honesty even harder.

5

Love Released - Episode Two

by Geri Foster

2015

Violence shakes Gibbs City, and Cora finds herself drawn to a frightened child who needs help. While Virgil tries to keep order, both of them have to decide how much trust they are willing to risk.

6

Love Released -Episode Seven

by Geri Foster

2015

The pressure on Cora, Virgil, and Jack tightens as justice, family, and safety all come under strain. Every choice now feels bigger, because the life they want together is finally within reach.

7

Love Released, Episode One

by Geri Foster

2015

Fresh out of prison, Cora Williams comes to Gibbs City with her nephew Jack hoping to stay invisible. Sheriff Virgil Carter sees a woman in trouble, and the quiet life Cora wants slips away almost at once.

8

Love Released: The Christmas Episode

by Geri Foster

2015

Christmas in Gibbs City is interrupted by school trouble, an abduction threat, and business from the past that pulls Virgil out of town. Cora fights to protect the children she loves while old family damage rises again.

9

Love Released - Episode Eight

by Geri Foster

2016

Cora and Virgil move toward a final showdown with the secrets and crimes that have shadowed them from the start. It is the moment where survival, justice, and the future of their hard-won love all meet.

10

Love Renewed: Episode Four

by Geri Foster

2016

A brutal attack leaves Elliot fighting for his life, and Lily's daughter Katie is kidnapped soon after. The people of Gibbs City rally around them in a desperate race against greed, violence, and time.

11

Love Renewed: Episode One

by Geri Foster

2016

Lily Tucker arrives in Gibbs City with her young daughter and a worn-down hotel she hopes can become a new life. Then Elliot Givens, a friend of her late husband, appears carrying help, history, and a secret.

12

Love Renewed: Episode Three

by Geri Foster

2016

As Lily and Elliot settle deeper into each other's lives, the truth they have both been carrying becomes harder to avoid. Their fragile hope for a future is threatened by secrets, pressure, and danger closing in.

13

Love Renewed: Episode Two

by Geri Foster

2016

Lily needs money and support to save the hotel, and Elliot keeps becoming more important than either of them planned. Gossip, grief, and a small town's judgment make every step toward each other more complicated.

14

Love Renewed: Episode Five

by Geri Foster

2017

Lily Tucker-Givens thinks her life is finally settling until a ghost from her past walks back into her hotel. The return of a man believed dead threatens her marriage, her peace, and everything she thought she knew.

Series background & context

Women of Courage is one of the clearest examples of Geri Foster writing in serial form. These are not loose companion novels. They are connected episodes set in and around Gibbs City, Missouri, with each installment carrying the emotional and suspense threads forward. If you like cliffhangers, continuing relationships, and a strong sense that one book flows straight into the next, this series is built that way.

The setting is 1940s Missouri, and that period matters.

The first arc, Love Released, follows Cora Williams, a former doctor and ex-con trying to rebuild her life after prison. She arrives in Gibbs City with her young nephew Jack and hopes to stay quiet. Instead, she crosses paths with Sheriff Virgil Carter, a World War II veteran who sees both her pain and the danger that seems to move with her. Their relationship grows slowly under pressure from crime, gossip, illness, and the long reach of Cora's past.

Because the series is episodic, the stakes do not reset from book to book. A town crisis in one installment becomes emotional fallout in the next. An influenza epidemic, child welfare concerns, family threats, and the question of whether Cora can ever truly belong all keep building. The books work best when read in order because the reward is watching trust form piece by piece instead of all at once.

Then the series opens outward. In Love Renewed, the focus shifts to Lily Tucker, her daughter Katie, and a rundown hotel in Gibbs City that might become a fresh start or another trap. Elliot Givens enters carrying a promise from Lily's past, and the story grows into another serialized romance full of grief, secrecy, small-town judgment, and danger that keeps getting closer. Kidnapping, war shadows, money troubles, and family damage all become part of the second arc.

What ties both arcs together is the town itself and the women inside it. Gibbs City can be harsh, narrow-minded, generous, and fiercely protective, sometimes all in the same chapter. Foster writes it as a place where private pain becomes public business, but also a place where people can rally when it matters most. That community thread keeps the series from feeling too isolated inside any one romance.

Women of Courage is a good fit for readers who want historical romantic suspense without a distant, formal tone. The period setting is there, but the emotions are immediate and the structure is easy to follow as long as you start at the beginning. Think of it as a long, unfolding saga about survival, family, and the stubborn hope that love can still take root after ruin.

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