Women Who Dare Books in Order

The Women Who Dare series spotlights heroines who are pushing against expectations in the turbulent years after the Civil War. Set in New Orleans, Wyoming Territory, and along the post‑war Southern coast, the books tie into Jenkins’s earlier historicals while standing firmly on their own.

Rebel introduces Valinda Lacey, a Northern woman who travels to New Orleans to teach newly emancipated adults and children. Her makeshift school is attacked by white supremacists, throwing her into the path of Captain Drake LeVeq, an architect from a powerful Creole family. As Drake helps Valinda rebuild, their partnership in community work deepens into a cross‑regional romance that has to withstand family pressure, dangerous enemies, and Valinda’s father’s plans for an arranged marriage.

Wild Rain moves west to Wyoming Territory and centers on Spring Lee, a no‑nonsense rancher who has absolutely no interest in a husband or children. Eastern journalist Garrett McCray travels west to interview her doctor brother‑in‑law and instead finds himself snowbound with Spring on her remote spread. The story leans into opposites‑attract charm: an urbane, bookish reporter and a gun‑toting, horse‑savvy woman who has built a life on her own terms.

To Catch a Raven returns to the South and into heist territory. Raven Moreau comes from a family of skilled grifters and is blackmailed by federal officials into one last job: infiltrate a white household in South Carolina and help retrieve a stolen copy of the Declaration of Independence. Posing as a married servant alongside upright businessman Braxton Steele, Raven navigates class tensions, old family secrets, and a slow shift from enemies and reluctant partners to lovers.

As a group, the Women Who Dare books dig into Reconstruction‑era realities: violent backlash against Black progress, debates over women’s roles, and the varied ways Black communities carved out space for themselves. Each heroine is competent, outspoken, and unafraid to challenge the men in her life, and each hero has to learn that loving a daring woman means respecting her dreams.

Readers who enjoy historical romance centered on bold women, rich setting detail, and cross‑book family ties will find this series a rewarding thread within Jenkins’s larger body of work.