Kim Vogel Sawyer

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2002
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Katy Lambright

1 - Katy's New World (Jan-2010)
2 - Katy's Debate (May-2010)
3 - Katy's Homecoming (Jan-2011)
4 - Katy's Decision (May-2011)

Mountain Lake, Minnesota

1 - A Seeking Heart (Jun-2002)
2 - A Heart Surrenders (Jun-2012)
3 - When a Heart Cries (Nov-2012)

My Heart Remembers

1 - My Heart Remembers (Mar-2008)
2 - In Every Heartbeat (Sep-2010)

The Sommerfield Trilogy

1 - Bygones (Apr-2007)
2 - Beginnings (Oct-2007)
3 - Blessings (Feb-2008)

Sweet Sanctuary

0.5 - Sinking Sand (Dec-2017)
1 - Sweet Sanctuary (Apr-2013)
2 - My Soul Sings (Dec-2016)

Waiting for Summer's Return

1 - Waiting for Summer's Return (Jun-2006)
2 - Where the Heart Leads (Sep-2008)

What Once Was Lost

0.5 - The Grace That Leads Us Home (Jul-2013)
1 - What Once Was Lost (Sep-2013)
1.5 - Just As I Am (Nov-2013)

Zimmerman Restoration Trilogy

1 - When Mercy Rains (Oct-2014)
2 - When Grace Sings (Mar-2015)
3 - When Love Returns (Sep-2015)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • A Seeking Heart

    Mountain Lake, Minnesota - 1

    A rich, heartwarming story about discovering Gods love, acceptance, and healing for even the most damaged hearts. Its 1917, and Samantha O'Brien, seventeen years old, runs away from Wisconsin to Minnesota to escape a drunkard father and broken home. ...

  • Dear John

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 693

    After losing her parents in a fatal accident, Marin must step at once into their shoes: her mother's to take care of her brother, John; her father's to run the advertising agency he founded. Her brother has Downs syndrome and has stayed at home most ...

  • Waiting for Summer's Return

    Waiting for Summer's Return - 1

    All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment i...

  • That Wilder Boy

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 709

    Carrie Mays knows that to whom much is given much is required. That's why she has to figure out what to do with the large inheritance she's about to receive. She doesn't want people to look at her and see dollar signs; she just wants to be loved for ...

  • Promising Angela

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 726

    Following her drug-related arrest, Angela finds herself out of rehab and in God's family. She's working at New Beginnings to fulfill her community service hours, but beyond that, she's never felt more alone. Her old friends only want her the way she ...

  • Bygones

    The Sommerfield Trilogy - 1

    Widower Marie Koeppler and her grown daughter Beth reluctantly return to the Mennonite community Marie abandoned twenty-three years ago. Soon after their arrival in Sommerfeld, a series of mysterious thefts raises the community's suspicions against t...

  • Where Willows Grow

    HER HEART ACHES FOR HIS RETURN . . . BUT IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM MEASURED BY MORE THAN MILES? ANNA MAE ISN'T SURE HER HUSBAND is being completely honest about his job with the Works Progress Administration. They're building a castle? In Kansas...

  • Beginnings

    The Sommerfield Trilogy - 2

    Beth Quinn is struggling to find a place to belong in the Old Order Mennonite Community of Sommerfeld, Kansas. When she starts a business designing stained glass windows, two men-one a Mennonite, the other not-begin to vie for her attention. Andrew B...

  • Blessings

    The Sommerfield Trilogy - 3

    Trina Muller has always had a passion for healing abandoned and injured animals. Her parents encourage this tenderness towards God's creatures until Trina confesses her dream of going to veterinary college. Why can't she accept that God's will is for...



  • My Heart Remembers

    My Heart Remembers - 1

    Three orphaned immigrant children are separated, but long to find each other again. A prairie story in the tradition of Janette Oke....

  • Where the Heart Leads

    Waiting for Summer's Return - 2

    After his graduation from college, Thomas Ollenburger is filled with big dreams and many questions. What will he do for a career? Should he marry? Where will he call home? Torn between his Mennonite roots on the Kansas prairie and his love for th...

  • A Promise for Spring

    England-born Emmaline Bradford pledged her life to Geoffrey Garrett and then bid him farewell when he sailed to America. Although Geoffrey anticipated only a short separation, several years passed before he was able to send for Emmaline. By then the ...

  • Fields of Grace

    With their eldest son nearly to the age when he will be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America, the land of liberty, with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother, Eli. But when tragedy strike...

  • Katy's New World

    Katy Lambright - 1

    When Katy is given the opportunity to attend a secular high school outside her Mennonite community, she is ecstatic. But as she begins to adjust to life outside her community and to make decisions for herself, her relationships with her family and li...

  • Katy's Debate

    Katy Lambright - 2

    New Club, New Crush ... New Mom? Just as Katy is feeling settled in her new school, everything falls apart at home. Her father, believing she needs a mother, starts courting a woman Katy refuses to accept. Tensions rise as Katy schemes to send th...

  • A Hopeful Heart

    Can she turn her second-best chance into a golden opportunity? DOWRYLESS AND DESPERATE, TRESSA NEILL applies to the inaugural class of Wyatt Herdsman School in Barnett, Kansas. The school's one-of-a-kind program teaches young women from the East the...

  • In Every Heartbeat

    My Heart Remembers - 2

    Three best friends, three cherished dreams, three searching hearts... As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a special plan for the future. Libby Conley hopes to become a famous journalist...

  • Courting Miss Amsel

    Edythe Amsel is delighted with her first teaching assignment: a one-room schoolhouse in Walnut Hill, Nebraska. Independent, headstrong, and a strong believer in a well-rounded education, Edythe is ready to open the world to the students in this tiny ...

  • Katy's Homecoming

    Katy Lambright - 3

    Katy's life outside her Old Order Mennonite sect becomes more complicated when she is elected to the sophomore homecoming court as a joke. When she discovers Bryce, her crush, could be her chaperone on the court, Katy has a big decision to make....



  • Katy's Decision

    Katy Lambright - 4

    After This Summer, Katy's Life May Change Forever Katy is looking forward to the best summer ever. Her closest friend, Shelby, comes to stay with her when an accident forces her to miss her family's mission trip. But when Katy's aunt faces a serious ...

  • A Whisper of Peace

    Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie Dawson lives alone in the mountains of Alaska, practicing the ways of her people even as she resides in the small cabin her father built for her mother. She dreams of reconciling with her gr...

  • Song of My Heart

    Sadie Wagner has always been devoted to her family. So when her stepfather is injured and can't work, she decides to leave home and accept a position as a clerk at the mercantile in Goldtree, Kansas. Goldtree also offers the opportunity to use her Go...

  • A Heart Surrenders

    Mountain Lake, Minnesota - 2

    "His sister has found the love of her life, but is it all too far out of reach for him? "

    All David has ever wanted was love and security. He believes he can attain his desire by winning the heart of Josie Klassen. But Josie's love for someone e...

  • When Hope Blossoms

    Amy Knackstedt moves with her children to Weaverly, Kansas, to escape the speculation surrounding her husband's untimely death. She hopes the new location will provide a fresh start for them all. But her neighbor, Tim Roper, is not pleased to have...

  • To Sing Another Day

    in Central Park Rendezvous (Romancing America)

    Welcome to the Big Apple where four generations of heroes find a love that never ends. Home from Afghanistan, Sean Wolfe is avoiding his dreams. Will J...

  • A Home in Drayton Valley

    Fed up with the poor quality of life in 1880 New York, Tarsie Raines encourages her friends Joss and Mary Brubacher to move with their two children to Drayton Valley, Kansas, a booming town hailed in the guidebook as the land of opportunity. She offe...

  • When a Heart Cries

    Mountain Lake, Minnesota - 3

    Their beloved little home was full of love . . . but it still felt empty

    Samantha and Adam Klaassen started married life in the cozy little home built into the hill at the back of the Klaassen family farm. When they began looking forward to th...

  • Sweet Sanctuary

    Sweet Sanctuary - 1

    A Story of Hope and Love from Bestselling Author Kim Vogel Sawyer Lydia Eldredge longs to provide a sanctuary for her son, Nicky. But a constant threat comes from Nicky's drug-addicted father, who wants the boy and seems willing to do whatever it ...

  • The Grace That Leads Us Home

    What Once Was Lost - 0.5

    They were supposed to spend the rest of their lives together… In the wake of her husband’s death, Alice Deaton will do anything to hold her family together. But with life handing her challenge after challenge, will her faith crack under the s...



  • What Once Was Lost

    What Once Was Lost - 1

    A woman meant to serve, a child in the dark, a man standing apart -- can these three souls embrace a God with new plans for them? On a small Kansas farm, Christina Willems lovingly shepherds a group of poor and displaced individuals who count on ...

  • Just As I Am

    What Once Was Lost - 1.5

    In this romantic 19th century-set short fiction follow-up to What Once Was Lost, while setting the stage for Sawyer's next novel, Echoes of Mercy, a young woman must let go of past rejections to find hope in the meaningful future God wants for her. ...

  • Echoes of Mercy

    Sometimes a secret must be kept for the truth to be revealed. When a suspicious accident occurs at the famous Dinsmore Chocolate Factory in Sinclair, Kansas, Caroline Lang goes undercover as a factory worker to investigate the circumstances surr...

  • Through the Deep Waters

    A past filled with shame can be washed away with a love that conquers all Born to an unloving prostitute in a popular Chicago brothel, timid seventeen-year-old Dinah Hubley was raised amidst the secrets held in every dark, grimy room of her home....

  • When Mercy Rains

    Zimmerman Restoration Trilogy - 1

    She left, heavily weighted with secrets. But God reveals all things, in His timing. And He redeems them. Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in...

  • When Grace Sings

    Zimmerman Restoration Trilogy - 2

    When trouble roars into quiet Arborville, Alexa and Anna-Grace find themselves the target for discord and exposed secrets. Can they continue to seek the God of all grace amidst the fog of confusion? Alexa Zimmerman wonders if the Old Order Menno...

  • When Love Returns

    Zimmerman Restoration Trilogy - 3

    Riddled with doubt and lingering regrets, will Suzanne and Paul find strength in God to explore a second chance at love?  It wasn’t easy to move back to the Old Order Mennonite community from which quiet, responsible Suzanne Zimmerman was sham...

  • Something Borrowed

    in The Heirloom Brides Collection

    Meet four women whose lives are in transition and watch as something old, new, borrowed, or blue brings them joy, romance, and renewed faith. Betsy''s something old is a lost family watch. Wren''s something new is a home built with her in mind. Clara...

  • Room for Hope

    In a desperate time, can Neva find forgiveness for a grievous wrong -- and make room for hope?   Neva Shilling has a heavy load of responsibility while her husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence, ...

  • Guide Me Home

    Working as a guide in Mammoth Cave might allow Rebekah the chance to bring joy back to her family. But will the cave claim more than it gives? After tragedy leaves its mark on Rebekah Hardin’s family, she plans to help her parents and six s...



  • Just For Lucy

    in The Rails to Love Romance Collection

    Journey the Transcontinental Railroad along with nine unlikely couples who encounter all the dangers and disappointments of traveling the rails in the late 1800s. From sight-seeing excursions to transports toward new lives, from orphan trains to circ...

  • My Soul Sings

    Sweet Sanctuary - 2

    Jeremiah has been hiding in shadows. Tessy is afraid of the dark. Together will they learn that God is able to shed His light even in the shadows of their lives?

    Jeremiah Hatcher witnessed war’s atrocities while serving as a missiona...

  • The Backfired Bride

    in The Matchmaker Brides Collection

    "Nine Meddling Matchmakers Find Love When They Least Expect It Meet nine women of the late 1800s who have found themselves in the role of matchmaker. They think they have mastered the art of recognizing romantic potential in others, but when i...

  • Grace and the Preacher

    At the age of twenty-three, postmistress Grace Cristler has all but given up hope of finding a husband among the narrowing group of eligible men in her town of Fairland, Kansas. But when her uncle decides to retire from the pulpit, Grace is responsib...

  • Bringing Maggie Home

    Decades of Loss, an Unsolved Mystery, and a Rift Spanning Three Generations Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old siste...

  • Sinking Sand

    Sweet Sanctuary - 0.5

    After suffering a devastating loss, Dr. Holden Winters steels his heart against the idea of love and against the God he once served. Army nurse Callie Myers wants to learn as much about medicine as possible so she can help care for the people in h...

  • Beneath a Prairie Moon

    Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley...

  • Ours for a Season

    An Old Order Mennonite couple's vows and beliefs are challenged in this stirring contemporary novel for fans of Cindy Woodsmall or Shelley Shepherd Gray.Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. ...

  • A Silken Thread

    For readers who love a heartwarming romance and a rich historical setting comes a tale of a young woman with a heavy burden, the International Cotton Exposition, and the pursuit of true love. Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven chi...

  • Unveiling the Past

    Mysteries, family secrets, and the love of a true Father are found at the heart of this gripping novel from the best-selling author of Bringing Maggie Home Newlyweds Sean Eagle and Meghan DeFord are no strangers to pain and loss. As cold-case dete...



  • The Librarian of Boone's Hollow

    A traveling librarian ventures into the mining towns of Kentucky on horseback and rediscovers her passions in this powerful novel from the best-selling author of A Silken Thread. During the Great Depression, Addie Cowherd dreams of being a novelis...

  • From This Moment

    A lost ring brings together two wounded souls -- a youth minister haunted by the past and a spunky church custodian -- in this heartwarming romance from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone’s Hollow. Growing up in the foster care sys...

  • Freedom's Song

    Her voice made her a riverboat’s darling -- and its prisoner. Now she’s singing her way to freedom in this powerful novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow. Indentured servant Fanny Beck has been forced to sing...

  • Still My Forever

    Can a frustrated composer find new inspiration with the woman who once made his heart sing? From the bestselling author of Freedom’s Song comes a charming romance inspired by a real historical figure. “A melodious second-chance rom...

  • The Tapestry of Grace

    When a group of Kansas women start a Frauenverein, a benevolent society devoted to aiding widows and orphans, life changes for more than just the hurting people they seek to help in this heartwarming romance inspired by historical events -- from...

  • The Songbird of Hope Hill

    A young woman sings of God’s love -- even if she doesn’t believe He can forgive her -- in this heartwarming novel inspired by historical events, from the bestselling author of A Tapestry of Grace.“An unforgettable story of God’s grace an...

Award-Winning Books by Kim Vogel Sawyer

My Heart Remembers
2009 Carol Award -- Historical
Waiting for Summer's Return
2007 Carol Award -- Historical
Where Willows Grow
2008 Carol Award -- Historical


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Kim Vogel Sawyer has published 55 books.

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The first book by Kim Vogel Sawyer, A Seeking Heart, was published in June 2002.

Yes. Kim Vogel Sawyer has 8 series.
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