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  • Bibliography:
    71 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2003
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Brides of Cedar Creek

1 - Cora's Deception (Mar-2012)
2 - Eliza's Mistake (Mar-2012)
3 - Rebekah's Scorn (Mar-2013)
4 - Deborah's Secret (Apr-2013)

Hands of Love

1 - Awakening Joy (Jan-2016)
2 - Through the Valley (Mar-2016)
3 - Love-Scarred Hands (Mar-2016)
4 - Walking His Way (Mar-2018)
5 - In Search of Gold (Jun-2019)

Home and Family

1 - Second Honeymoon (Nov-2019)
2 - Guilty of Love (Feb-2020)

Kansas City Romance

1 - This Child Is Mine (Mar-2005)
2 - Making Things Right (Dec-2012)
3 - Three Broken Hearts (Jan-2013)

Love on the Range

1 - A New Life (Sep-2011)
2 - Better Than Gold (Mar-2013)
3 - Double Blessing (Apr-2020)

Mail-Order Brides of Sweet Water, Kansas

1 - Silver Lining (Nov-2014)
2 - Refuge in Sweet Water (Apr-2021)
3 - Borrowed Family (Jul-2021)
4 - Stealing the Preacher's Heart (Aug-2021)
5 - Housekeeper Bride (Sep-2021)
6 - Gun Totin' Bride (Mar-2022)
7 - Second Chance Bride (Aug-2022)

Mail-Order Matchmakers

1 - Mail-Order Mishap (Oct-2019)
2 - Proxy Bride (Jul-2023)

Oregon Trail

1 - Mama's Bible (Jun-2012)
2 - Home's Promise (Sep-2012)
3 - Love's Forgiveness (Feb-2014)
4 - Ellen's Choice (Sep-2020)
5 - Love's Healing (Dec-2020)
6 - Mother's Tears (Apr-2022)

Orphan Train Brides

1 - The Preacher's Outlaw Bride (Sep-2012)

Outlaw Gold

1 - Connie and the Cowboy (Jul-2012)
2 - Laurie and the Lawman (Aug-2015)
3 - Becky and the Banker (Dec-2016)

Prairie Hearts

1 - Circle of Vengeance (Jan-2016)
2 - Mariah's Hope (Feb-2016)

Related Books

1 - Friends & Foes (Aug-2013)
2 - Two Lonely Hearts (Jul-2014)

Romancing the 60s

1 - Let's Try Again (May-2020)
2 - Ten Thousand Kisses (Oct-2020)
3 - Too Late for Sorry (Apr-2023)

Route 66

0.5 - From the Beginning (Dec-2019)
1 - Facing Tessa's Past (Dec-2010)
2 - Redeeming Sarah's Present (Jun-2011)
3 - Building Amanda's Future (Jul-2013)

Second Chance Love

1 - Winning Kasi's Love (Mar-2014)
2 - Marrying for the Child (Jun-2014)
3 - Searching for Treasure (Apr-2015)
4 - Answering Tami's Prayer (Oct-2016)
5 - Going Home Again (Nov-2016)
6 - Falling for Toni (Mar-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

Birthstone Brides

2 - Hometown Love (Jan-2017)
3 - Love Beyond the Fence (Feb-2017)
6 - Tricked into Marriage (May-2017)
8 - Impersonating the Teacher (Aug-2017)
10 - The Deputy's Son (Oct-2017)

Texas Brides Mail-Order Style

1 - Mail-Order Shotgun Wedding (May-2016)
5 - December Love (Sep-2016)

Book List in Order: 71 titles



  • Cora can't wait to leave the prairie. When her city beau, George Merrill, fails to rescue her, Cora embraces the truth - this land is now her home. She opens her heart to the people and discovers life is far better than she'd ever thought it could be...



  • Eliza Jackson deals with the aftermath of her mother's death. Determined to care for her father and her younger brother, she desires to keep her family to herself - but the Lord has other plans. As her father falls in love again, it seems as though E...



  • A blood test that should have brought comfort brings confusion and pain instead. Now, Beth Murdock must face the truth - Stevie, the little girl she has raised as her own for almost two years, isn't hers. Jonathon McDuff doesn't know what to make ...



  • DEBORAH IS FORCED TO MARRY AGAIN. Deborah Asberry was forced into marriage once before. Now her late husband is barely cold in his grave, and her father is forcing her to marry again - this time to a widower with two small children. More than anythi...



  • Tessa Stevens has a past she would rather forget. But when she comes face-to-face with a part of her past while on vacation, she is forced to reevaluate her future. Then she falls in love with the man of her dreams once again, knowing that he is as u...



  • A widowed mother of three struggles with financial insecurity then meets a father of three who sets her heart racing. Heather Conway, daycare owner, has no extra money and very little faith. Where was God when her husband died, leaving her facing ban...



  • Eighteen years ago, Sarah Maddox and Kevin Nichols gave their baby son up for adoption and went their separate ways. Now Trey Miller is graduating from high school and has agreed to meet the birthparents he never knew. Sarah, eager to see the eightee...



  • Historical Christian Romance set in early 1900s Kansas City, MissouriAbigail Stevens is part owner of Kingson Steel, but she lets her older sister take care of business while she hides in the darkness. Nine years ago Abigail lost her sight when fever...



  • She’s city. He’s Country. She just found out they have something in common. Her son!Kimberly Burris and Travis Graham have a past. Circumstances and family caused their break-up seven years ago and both married other people. Now they’re single ...






  • Megan McGinnis just met Scott Landis and his son, Randy. His adopted son. About the time she falls in love with Scott, circumstances convince her Randy is the baby she gave away nine years ago. But what can she do? If she confronts Scott, she'll lose...



  • Life in Cedar Bend, Kansas, has become one predictable day after another. Joanne Brady helps her father with his patients, smiles sweetly at her beau, and secretly chafes over the boredom of it all. She wonders, is this really all life is meant to be...



  • Christian Historical RomanceIt’s 1833 Missouri, but Cora Jackson has no intention of losing herself on a prairie where the nearest neighbor is two miles away. Her city beau, George Merrill, promises to rescue her, and she eagerly watches for him. T...



  • Historical Christian RomanceEliza Jackson moves to Springfield, Missouri, after her mother’s death, with her father and younger brother in 1836. Still grieving for her mother, she determines to make a home for her small family. Then she makes the m...



  • Oregon Trail Series - Historical Christian RomanceBook One: MAMA'S BIBLEBook Two: HOME'S PROMISEBook Three: LOVE'S FORGIVENESSRunning from the Law. Leaving everything behind. What more is there to lose?Katie Donovan soon learns she has much to lose, ...



  • Born in a brothel! Raised by an outlaw! Under the roof of a lecherous uncle! Connie longs to escape.Connie didn’t have a last name, but figured Davis would do since he was the closest to a daddy she’d ever had. Davis left his outlaw gold for her ...



  • A pretend wedding gives eight-year-old KodyAnne the assurance that even the Orphan Train cannot separate her from Michael forever. Their love transcends time until her father, a banker, and a sheriff change their lives.      With her father dead ...



  • At long last, Tommy has asked Rachel to marry him.How could anything go wrong now?Rachel Morgan is ready for marriage to Tommy Donovan. She’s loved him from the first when they met on the Oregon Trail. Now they’ve arrived in Oregon, and with Kati...



  • Head to the majestic Northwest where logging history comes to life in four Christmas romances. Insecurity brings a logger and a young woman together, but will a “perfect†sister tear them apart? Will the dangers of the woods derail a young cou...



  • Lori and Ron can’t seem to agree on the important things in life, such as Ron’s hobby. At least that’s what Lori calls his fledgling photography-business-on-the-side. So Ron takes his camera, walks out, and gets a divorce. Two years later Lori ...






  • Contemporary Romance - 64,000 wordsKent builds houses. He’s started a new housing project and needs an interior designer for the model homes. Amy and her partner seem perfect for the job. In fact, Amy holds more appeal than only her expertise in de...



  • She inherited half the ranch and had to stay. Allison grew up with stories of her grandfather’s cruelty. How the rich old man refused to help her mother, his only daughter, and that he had no interest in meeting his three grandchildren. Now, Alliso...



  • Historical Christian RomanceBrides of Cedar Creek - Book 3Jilted within a week of her wedding!When Rebekah Newkirk’s fiancé runs away with another woman, her pride is hurt more than her heart. After being told once too often that everything will w...



  • Twice forced to marry a stranger.Deborah Asberry’s father picked her first husband. Now she’s widowed, and her father is forcing her to marry again -- this time to a widower with two small children who lives in southwest Missouri far from her St....



  • When Amanda Wilson returned to her hometown, she never dreamed her past and future would collide in the aftermath of a devastating tornado. She volunteers to help with cleanup and is assigned to the farm now owned by the man who broke her heart years...



  • Historical Christian RomanceSequel to One Rusty Spur by Linda CushmanIn this 19th Century action, adventure romance, an innocent wrong turn sticks Louella Tolivar in the middle of a train robbery that threatens her life and the live...



  • Christian RomanceOregon Trail Series Also in the Oregon Trail series: Book One: MAMA'S BIBLE Book Two: HOME'S PROMISE Could she give her heart to the man who killed her husband? Abigail Marshall only wants to be left alone in the log cabin J...



  • Contemporary Christian romanceSecond Chance Love Series - Book 1Come to Pleasant Spring, Missouri, at the northern edge of the Ozarks, where almost everyone knows everyone else. Like all small towns, hopes and dreams are shared with laughter and tear...



  • Contemporary Christian RomanceBook Two of Second Chance Love SeriesCome to Pleasant Spring, Missouri, at the northern edge of the Ozarks, where almost everyone knows everyone else. Like all small towns, hopes and dreams are shared with laughter and t...



  • Robert Hoyt has just learned he was adopted. In a desperate attempt to find out about his background, he heads to Kansas City and the orphanage he hopes will have answers. There, he meets another orphan, a six-year-old boy who stows away on the train...






  • Christian Romantic SuspenseSonya White’s world crashes as one disaster after another befalls her. Her stepmother has cancer, and her childhood friend begins making unwanted advances. Then she catches the man she loves kissing another girl. As if th...



  • Abducted by white slavers.Danya Morrison becomes a mail-order bride when she escapes a life of forced prostitution. Two men capture her when she walks home from work late one night. They leave her locked in a second-story room in an abandoned house, ...



  • Contemporary Christian romance Second Chance Love Series - Book 3 Come to Pleasant Spring, Missouri, at the northern edge of the Ozarks, where almost everyone knows everyone else. Like all small towns, hopes and dreams are shared with laughter and...



  • HISTORICAL WESTERN FICTIONCan a Lawman fall in love with an outlaw’s widow?After burying her outlaw husband, Laurie Rains learns he may have hidden two bags of gold on their farm. In search of more than her past life of shame, she dares to enter an...



  • "This is the man I will marry." Hannah Zorn falls in love at first sight but must compete with her twin sister to win Gus Rohmeier's heart. Little does she know how devious her sister can be or what she'll have to do to fight back....



  • Book One in the Prairie Hearts series -- A Sweet Historical Western RomanceWho is John Thornton? Just another cowboy or her own mysterious stranger?In this clean and wholesome Western Historical Romance, Carrie Butler thinks she has finally met the m...



  • In Ohio, Mariah Casey faces a bleak future until she receives a letter from Cedar Bend, Kansas, offering her the position of teaching school. After living a life without love, her only prayer is for God to send her someone to love who will love her i...



  • Was she a mail-order bride or the ill-gotten prize of a gambler?Rose O'Brien lost her family during the potato famine in Ireland--all except her older brother who lived in America. She'd resigned herself to marry a man she didn't love, until an unexp...



  • Hannah and Gus's story continues as they move south to Iowa where they build their own farm. There Hannah battles fear and loneliness on the prairie until neighbors begin moving in. Still, she finds it hard to trust God especially when Gus becomes...



  • Texas Brides Mail-Order Style!Mail-Order Shotgun Bride is book one in a new mail-order bride series of five books. Able Logan is hit by a double barrel when he learns of his father’s heart condition and impending death. Before that blow settles aro...






  • At last, Will Logan can sit back and wait for the grandchildren to come. If he doesn't die first.Texas Brides, Mail-Order Style, a sweet historical western romance!Even after successfully finding mail-order brides for his sons, Will...



  • Her son prayed for a father. She prayed for a husband. Come to Pleasant Spring, Missouri, at the northern edge of the Ozarks, where almost everyone knows everyone else. Like all small towns, hopes and dreams are shared with laughter and tea...



  • Hope Wilson lost her husband and little girl in one terrible night.Come to Pleasant Spring, Missouri, at the northern edge of the Ozarks, where almost everyone knows everyone else. Like all small towns, hopes and dreams are shared with laughter and t...



  • Book 3 in the Outlaw Gold series â€" A Sweet Historical Western RomanceIn 1896, Becky Campbell heads west to work as a waitress in one of Fred Harvey’s famous restaurants in western Kansas. Then a train wreck and a bump on her head steal her memory...



  • Book Two in the Birthstone Brides series--A Sweet Historical Small-town RomanceFebruary 1873, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas -- A Clean and Wholesome Love StoryCasey Walker is a woman who enjoys life, loves children, but longs for love and a family of her ...



  • Why would Abby’s parents give her away when she was ten years old?That’s what Abigail Stevens would like to know. Now, after nine years in the city, she’s back home trying to prove to her parents she’s as worthy as her brother and should be a...



  • Naomi Patterson has long admired widower Brant Grayson, and is pleasantly surprised when she receives his invitation to come to Kansas and see if things might work out so they can get married. An unpleasant surprise awaits when she arrives only to le...



  • Can Tabitha find safety before her deceased husband's family force her into a marriage she doesn't want and cause certain death for her and her daughter?Tabitha Ryan suspects her husband's death in a carriage accident was no accident, but a cold-bloo...



  • Telling a Deputy Sheriff you have his son isn’t as easy as it may seem …Vanetta Wilcox is in mourning for her sister, but when she arrives in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, with her young nephew, everyone assumes she’s widowed, and she doesn’t kno...



  • Someone was either trying to drive Toni crazy or make it appear she already was! But who?Toni Duncan, with her young daughter, left the heartache of Chicago after her husband and his mistress died in a boating accident. Then her past, name...






  • Double cousins raised as sisters! Anne Atwood and Colleen O'Brien navigate the troubled waters of growing up and falling in love. When Anne falls for William Rohmeier, her perfect man, the one Colleen calls Anne's knight in shining armor, e...



  • Gold is a harsh taskmaster, but true love endures forever.Sarah Rohmeier fell for David Latshaw the first time she saw him when she was only fourteen years old. Even her parents’ disapproval couldn’t change her mind. Mama said his father ...



  • A man looking for a wife to further his political career, a woman who needs a home after her husband’s death at the end of the Civil War, and the trusted escort who needs to forgive and find forgiveness with the father he hasn’t seen for ...



  • Lyndee Brannigan goes into a period of depression, after her husband of less than a month is killed. Even her mother can't reach her, but she sends someone who can.Keith Williams' best friend was Joe Brannigan, and he figures he owes it to their frie...



  • Tyler Baynes and Kim Norwood were best friends from childhood, but could they go beyond mere friendship to an everlasting love meant for marriage?After their first and only kiss as teenagers, Tyler left for college. Kim never forgot the kiss, even th...



  • Nicholas Bradshaw had a crush on Julie St. Clair in high school, only she was already taken. When their paths crossed a few years later, they fell in love and married.The only problem is her old boyfriend, Darrell, who married her best friend, Heathe...



  • Kate Harper gave birth to twins in an early Nebraska blizzard. She knows she heard two babies cry, but her husband and the nurse say one of her babies died. At her insistence, her husband lets her hold the dead baby and she grieves as she never has b...



  • Christine Jenkins figures one broken heart is enough.Six months ago, she expected a marriage proposal but got a good-bye speech instead. She packed her bags and went to Kansas City to get over Davis. But some things are easier decided than accomplish...



  • Although she loves Daniel, and everyone expects them to marry, she’s in no hurry. Ellen Bartlett wants to continue teaching the children of Willtown, Oregon, in 1862.Daniel Morgan, her best friend, thinks they should marry as soon as possible, ...



  • Can a young teenage girl truly fall in love when the boy scarcely gives her the time of day?Stephanie Dawes thinks so when she forever after compares all men to her high school crush and finds them lacking. Stephanie is tired of kissing frogs while s...



  • Serena Lancaster is grieving the death of her brother and his wife, but more than anything she wants to claim their orphaned baby who is being raised by foster parents. Her wealthy father disowned his son for leaving the family business and becoming ...



  • Adam is hardworking, honest, and kind, but is tired of being lonely. He’s longed for a wife since his next-door neighbor married a mail-order bride. The only woman who’d caught Adam’s interest turned up her nose at his farm, which c...



  • Raylene made a deathbed promise to care for her cousin’s children, but keeping the promise seems impossible. She’s never met their father. She lives in New York, and they live over a thousand miles away on a farm in Kansas. Then John, the...



  • Her father’s an outlaw. He’s a preacher with a teenaged daughter.When Lily agrees to her father’s deathbed request, she takes the place of a mail-order bride and marries a preacher in Kansas. She doesn’t expect to lose her hea...



  • Her goal is to pay back the debt her father owed.His is to keep her away from his family.Maggie Thompson believes she owes the Lewis family more than she can give because of her father’s illegal actions… and because she failed Jim Lewis&#...



  • Finding her missing father has become an obsession to Frannie Hart.To do so she becomes a mail-order bride.Although she’s a pretty young woman traveling alone, Frannie isn’t worried. She grew up on her father’s ranch and learned to ...



  • Her father gave her baby away moments after his birth.Mariam Kellen was only seventeen when her father ignored her protests and took her baby from the midwife before she could hold him. Then he forced her to leave their Mississippi home and follow th...



  • Separated by over a thousand miles and five years, a couple once in love find each other again through matchmakers, but love is not so easy this time.Abbie’s older sister is right. She was spoiled while their parents lived. But being forced to ...



  • Tiffany’s husband divorced her to marry the mother of his child.Tiffany Houser’s greatest desire is to have a baby, but she is denied the privilege during five years of marriage. A series of tests with a fertility specialist reveals she s...



  • Proxy Bride is set in the 1880s Kansas on the Rocking R Ranch. Struggling to learn the ropes of the boss after his father’s unexpected death increases Wes’s longing for his best friend. A proxy wedding is the quickest way to bring her to ...



  • A young woman mistreated by her preacher father, believes she must protect her ill mother even if it means she won’t marry the man she loves.Justin loves Michelle and she loves him, but he can’t convince her to marry him. He won’t g...



  • As Brenna Logan comes out of the confusion and grief from her husband's short illness and death, she believes she's finally going to be fine. She will raise her two small children alone and be the independent woman she knows she can be. Because of th...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mildred Colvin has published 71 books.

Mildred Colvin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, This Time for Keeps, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Mildred Colvin, Cora, was published in April 2003.

Yes. Mildred Colvin has 15 series.