Zina Abbott Books in Order

In 1854 Columbia, freighter Sean Flood's toothache leads him straight into widow Ona McNair's struggling household. When her young son declares he is too old for Christmas, Sean decides none of them are too old for hope.

Aaron Brinks wants a company house, and Andrea Draper needs escape from her father's control, so a practical marriage seems to suit them both. Then Andrea's father arrives, and a tidy annulment plan stops looking tidy at all.

After years of caring for her parents, spinster Bessie Carlson lands in Jubilee Springs with relatives and suddenly looks like a bargain to local bachelors. Remote rancher Zeb Jacobson may be the one man sensible enough to see her clearly.

Catherine Everett arrives in Jubilee Springs ready to marry miner Harold Calloway, with one small secret tucked into her plans, a rescued kitten. She finds love at once, but not everyone is ready to welcome her meowling complication.

Delphinia flees an arranged marriage, aliases and all, determined to wed before her father can reclaim her. In Jubilee Springs, solitary furniture maker and mortician Bennett Nighy becomes the last man she expected to need.

Cowboy foreman Eddie Joe Hampton wants a wife and his own home, but a bridal-agency mix-up gives the local miners first claim on the women arriving in town. Widow Etta Crabtree must decide whether the cowboy or the mining camp offers the safer future.

Fleeing danger in Kansas, Kizzie Atwell joins forces with freighter Leander Jones to save their beloved horses and survive the trail. Years later, a Fort Riley dance gives their unfinished bargain a far more romantic turn.

This prequel follows a Bavarian jeweler on the difficult journey to a new life in America. It is part immigration story, part family beginning, and a warm setup for the wider Lockets & Lace world.

Return to Jubilee Springs for more connected romances shaped by aliases, stubborn plans, and small-town surprises. As autumn settles over the mining town, courtship gets tangled with work, reputation, and the pull of home.

This collection gathers three linked Jubilee Springs romances set in a lively Colorado mining town. Mail-order plans, a stray kitten, and an overlooked spinster turn one season into a run of unexpected matches.

After her mother's death, Eliza is taken from Ohio to California by an uncle she barely knows, then realizes she may not be allowed to leave. Former railroad detective Kit Halsey is hired to find her, but family secrets make the rescue far from simple.

Widowed in a mine disaster, Nissa Stillwell is left with two children, a laundry shed, and a man determined to squeeze payment from debts she never made. Survival comes first, but Wildcat Ridge leaves little room for safety.

Mail-order bride Libby Jones is rejected the moment she arrives in Kansas, then nearly sold to recoup her travel costs. Wounded homesteader Otto Atwell offers marriage instead, but trouble from Libby's past is not finished with her.

In 1856 Kansas Territory, Charlie lives between two worlds, his white father's trading-post life and his Kansa heritage. As settlers pour in and Meadowlark seeks him out, he must decide where he belongs and what future he will claim.

After the Wildcat Ridge mine disaster kills her husband, Diantha Ames is left with his hotel, his postmaster duties, and troubling questions about the man she married. In rebuilding her life, she learns just how much had been hidden from her.

Ling Loi, a young woman from Canton, and Luke McDaniels meet in the rough mining town of Lundy while both are trapped by dangerous men. To win freedom, they must trust each other across fear, violence, and very different pasts.

Dahlia heads west as Nathan's mail-order bride and arrives to find him injured and unconscious after a mining accident. Instead of starting married life, she must first decide whether she is willing to become his nurse.

Annie Flanagan worries when her sister Kate's western courtship begins to go wrong just as winter closes in on Jubilee Springs. Letters, family loyalty, and one Irish miner make this Christmas romance more tangled than anyone expected.

In 1858, Virginia Atwell secretly writes investigative articles while her family plans to drag her toward a frontier life she dreads. College, a special assignment, and the company of aspiring writer Avery Wilson force her to risk far more than her byline.

An overlooked woman heads toward a Christmas marriage and a quieter life in the West, only to discover that shopkeeping and courtship both come with risks. It is a gentle holiday romance about second chances and being truly seen.

A year after escaping California, Joy and Luke are safer but not fully at peace. As Christmas nears in Minnesota, Luke faces one unresolved debt that may be the key to his own restoration.

At a Fort Riley celebration, Hannah Atwell's world opens with dancing, officers, and one impulsive token of regard. Letters keep her tied to Jake Burdock, but distance and family warnings make that bond painfully uncertain.

Hannah Atwell falls for Lieutenant Jake Burdock after a Fort Riley dance, but distance and letters stretch their courtship thin. When another officer seems ready to offer the future she wants, Hannah must decide what love really looks like.

Gold-country bachelor Kendrick Denham expects another ordinary day until the sheriff hands him a baby girl and says the mother named him as the father. At the same time, Lydia Meyer arrives in California needing shelter for herself and her sons.

Lorena Mayfield escapes a life of ruin and shame hoping a marriage in Kansas will protect the one person she still loves. Hardened stage-station manager Eustace Cantrell needs a family as much as he needs his own soul restored.

Widowed before she can truly begin married life, Penelope Humphry heads west carrying an unborn child and very little security. During the long stage journey, she discovers her new arrangement is not what she was led to believe.

Roslyn is sent west to marry a man chosen by her aunt, but he rejects her when he learns she is younger than promised and has a baby. Stage-line worker Elam becomes part of a second chance neither of them expected.

Carrie Watson goes to Wyoming to rescue her younger sister from a reckless marriage choice and finds the girl has vanished with the wrong man. Sheriff Devlin Anders leads the search, and Carrie refuses to stay behind.

Olivia Stratton sees a mail-order marriage as her only way forward, while Quentin Thompson wants an uneventful life in Jubilee Springs. Then a woman from Quentin's past steps off the train and upends both their plans.

New lawyer Samantha Robertson answers an advertisement expecting a legal partnership and finds a widower with two daughters instead. Linton Merrill needs help, but the business he has in mind is not the one Samantha imagined.

Ranch hand Cole has never made much of marriage, until a determined little girl decides he would be the perfect husband for her sister Amelia. Family pressure, ranch life, and unexpected attraction do the rest.

A holiday kitchen romance where baking and Christmas expectations become part of a growing courtship. Francine's seasonal preparations set the stage for family complications, tenderness, and a hopeful winter ending.

Kate reaches Jubilee Springs expecting marriage, only to learn the man she came for has already given his heart elsewhere. As the railroad reshapes the town, another connection offers a more surprising future.

Stina Dinesen wants life beyond the family lighthouse, not more responsibility inside it. But when a storm hits and a man goes overboard, she is pulled into a dangerous rescue that may change her future.

Madeline is a frontier romance about a woman trying to balance hope, duty, and the hard facts of Western life. Abbott pairs courtship with family pressure and the question of whether a fresh start can become lasting love.

After fleeing a predatory employer's son in Chicago, Blythe seeks safety through a mail-order marriage. But once she reveals she is carrying a child, even her best hope in Wyoming becomes painfully uncertain.

Letitia heads west expecting a Christmas marriage and a safer future, only to find that hidden truths can turn a holiday journey precarious. This sweet historical romance mixes winter tension, reinvention, and a chance at love.

Scarred lawyer and sometime detective Harry Bradford crosses paths with Stella Schoenfeld in booming Abilene. She wants her runaway brother found, but Harry's reasons are tangled with revenge, secrets, and a growing attachment he never expected.

This holiday historical romance blends old-fashioned baking with frontier courtship. As Brunhilde's kitchen fills with holiday work, love arrives wrapped in family pressure, memory, and a chance for joy.

Ellie is a runaway-bride romance about a woman heading west to outrun a bad future and find one of her own making. Trouble follows close behind, but so does the possibility of a better match.

Stella returns to Indianapolis with her brother facing false murder charges and Harry Bradford caught deeper in the case than ever. Courtroom pressure, public scandal, and shaken trust test whether justice and love can survive together.

Rose Calloway hopes correspondence with Joshua Kent will lead to marriage, just as he prepares to stake everything on the Cherokee Outlet land run. When land, timing, and family plans collide, Rose must decide what future she truly wants.

Called home just before Thanksgiving 1882, Lila Cleod returns for her father's funeral fearing there will be little left for her in his will. Her future, education, and chance at independence all suddenly feel uncertain.

Spinster schoolteacher Marigold never planned on children or marriage, until one struggling pupil and his dying mother pull her into both. George Burdock arrives just as the town starts questioning whether she can care for the boy alone.

Traveling west with her family, Pearl wants no part of the overbearing widower who claims God has chosen her for him. On the trail, she begins to ask whether faith and love might lead her somewhere very different.

Widow Willow Morrow is scraping by in Sonora with her small daughter when an unusual job advertisement opens a door. The town needs a night watchman, and the man who takes the job is expected to consider marriage, too.

Nearly thirty and long resigned to self-support, Beulah Connor takes a job at a girls' academy in Oklahoma Territory and starts to suspect something odd is afoot. Carpenter Daniel Burdock may be part of a matchmaking scheme stitched together with quilting lessons and geometry.

Clara is a frontier romance about a woman facing family duty, hardship, and the possibility of a fresh start. Abbott keeps the focus on practical choices, emotional resilience, and love that has to be earned.

Spanish Flu survivor Eleanor Daley heads to Anchorage in 1925 for independence and a job as a switchboard operator. There she meets Frankie Perry, and the question becomes whether love will widen her life or narrow it.

German immigrant Elise reaches New York expecting honest work and discovers a trap instead. After fleeing in fear, she crosses paths with former soldier Kurt Neumann, a man who may be her first real chance at safety.

A thief steals Lauren Brower's tickets and money on her way to a mail-order marriage, leaving her stranded before she ever reaches Wyoming. Railroad agent Jeb Carter offers help, but it comes with danger and a train-robbery investigation.

Sabrina and her younger sister think they are running toward a better life until Sabrina realizes what kind of wife her prospective groom actually wants. Gruff rancher Hugh is no romantic dream, but he may be exactly the rescue they need.

Varinia plans a lemon meringue pie for Christmas dinner and ends up improvising when the lemons vanish. While holiday plans wobble, Arnie Dickens decides it is finally time to speak plainly about what he feels.

Analia Cantrell leaves the East hoping a western husband will overlook the losses and loyalties the Civil War left behind. Jeffrey Holden thinks he chose a Northern bride, and the truth may upend Christmas for them both.

Rejected by the man who sent for her, pregnant Florence Crowley reaches Columbus nearly broke and close to begging. Asher Henderson first approaches her for amusement, then realizes she may be the bravest woman he has met.

Jocelyn knows why the local men avoid her, her mother always arrives first. So she turns to a matchmaker and secrecy, only to find that corresponding with rancher Kent may be easier than keeping Mama out of the plan.

After last Christmas goes badly, Elizabeth Jewell reinvents herself as Lisbeth and starts a hand-pie business. She wants respect, self-command, and maybe someday love, but this time she means to earn all three on better terms.

With war making Kansas unsafe, Lucy Baxter and her aunt set out for California, where Lucy hopes her long-absent father will still welcome her. Teamster Malachi Foster joins the journey, bringing steadiness to a road full of uncertainty.

Phoebe Wilton wants teacher training and a future on her own terms, not a society marriage arranged for convenience. But as she moves between school and New Ponca, one young banker starts to look very hard to forget.

California lumberjack Wyatt Holt finally starts looking for a wife and is rewarded with a gunshot wound and a bride who rejects him for another man. Hurt and uncertain, he still cannot quite let go of the hope for home and family.

After losing her parents and home, Anthelia Spencer moves to a remote family business serving visitors near Yosemite. The wilderness is daunting, but the stagecoach's shotgun messenger gives her one bright reason to stay interested.

Former soldier Hal Culpepper survives one bad mail-order entanglement and an attack by road agents, then gets asked to escort widow Marta Schmidt and her daughter west. What looks like another detour may become the future he needs.

Widow Rowena Healy advertises for a husband who can run her late husband's barber shop and someday teach the trade to her son. Former barber Baird Tucker answers for the work, not the marriage, which makes things even more complicated.

Stella Jorgenson dreads a Christmas spent far from the relatives and traditions she misses most. Baking her late mother's stollen may be the only bright spot, unless Thomas can also turn an awkward family gathering into something warmer.

Living with her stepsister Lucy in Carson City, Sue wants education and a year of teaching before she even thinks about marriage. Then an unexpected chance for adventure tempts her to postpone the safe path.

Fiona O'Rourke reaches the West expecting a careful mail-order match and decides at once she may have chosen badly. Anthony Bellamy's one foolish mistake at the depot leaves him scrambling to prove he is not too late.

Abigail Belcher flees family pressure and places her last hope in a marriage to Theodore Reynolds, a mine owner who has carefully understated his prosperity. Each suspects the other may be hiding something, and both are right to worry.

Ardith Cleary loves riding Yosemite stage runs with her father, but the coming railroad threatens the life she knows. Her growing friendship with rail foreman Mack McManus makes the change even harder to sort out.

Years after her family is uprooted, Sophia Schmidt is living in Helena when her uncle arrives with butcher's apprentice Max Berger. He has long admired her from a careful distance, and one dance may finally change that.

Stranded in Wyoming, British immigrants Maggie and her brother try to earn train fare by fiddling and step dancing for tips. When rancher Cecil Bellamy drags Maggie off a saloon stage, sparks fly as fast as the scandal.