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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Beacons of Hope

1 - Love Unexpected (Dec-2014)
2 - Hearts Made Whole (Jun-2015)
3 - Undaunted Hope (Jan-2016)

The Bride Ships

1 - A Reluctant Bride (Jun-2019)
2 - The Runaway Bride (Mar-2020)
3 - A Bride of Convenience (Jul-2020)
4 - Almost a Bride (Aug-2020)

Bride Ships: New Voyages

1 - Finally His Bride (Feb-2024)
2 - His Treasured Bride (Apr-2024)

Colorado Cowboys

1 - A Cowboy for Keeps (Jan-2021)
2 - The Heart of a Cowboy (Oct-2021)
3 - To Tame a Cowboy (May-2022)
4 - Falling for the Cowgirl (Oct-2022)
5 - The Last Chance Cowboy (Feb-2023)

Colorado Cowgirls

1 - Committing to the Cowgirl (Jul-2023)
2 - Cherishing the Cowgirl (Jul-2023)
3 - Convincing the Cowgirl (Aug-2023)
4 - Captivated by the Cowgirl (Sep-2023)

The Fairest Maidens

1 - Beholden (Sep-2020)
2 - Beguiled (Oct-2020)
3 - Besotted (Nov-2020)

Knights of Brethren

1 - Enamored (Nov-2021)
2 - Entwined (Dec-2021)
3 - Ensnared (Jun-2022)
4 - Enriched (Jul-2022)
5 - Enflamed (Aug-2022)
6 - Entrusted (Sep-2022)

The Lost Princesses

1 - Evermore (Aug-2019)
1.5 - Always (Aug-2019)
2 - Foremost (Sep-2019)
3 - Hereafter (Nov-2019)

Orphan Train

0.5 - An Awakened Heart (Apr-2017)
1 - With You Always (Jun-2017)
2 - Together Forever (May-2018)
3 - Searching for You (Dec-2018)

A Shanahan Match

1 - Calling on the Matchmaker (Dec-2023)
2 - Saved by the Matchmaker (Aug-2024)

Uncertain Choice

0.5 - The Vow (Jan-2015)
1 - An Uncertain Choice (Mar-2015)

Waters of Time

1 - Come Back to Me (Jun-2021)
2 - Never Leave Me (Jan-2022)
3 - Stay With Me (Dec-2022)
4 - Wait For Me (May-2023)

Book List in Order: 59 titles



  • In 1650s England, a young Puritan maiden is on a mission to save the baby of her newly widowed preacher--whether her assistance is wanted or not. Always ready to help those in need, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her aid. She's even willing to ...



  • Priscilla White knows she'll never be a wife or mother and feels God's call to the mission field in India. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading out West once more. Bu...



  • High-Stakes Drama Meets High-Tension Romance In 1883 Michigan, Lily Young is on a mission to save her lost sister, or die trying. Heedless of the danger, her searches of logging camps lead her to Harrison and into the sights of Connell McCormick, ...



  • Recently widowed Annalisa Werner has the feeling her husband was murdered but can't prove it. Alone with her young daughter in 1881 Michigan, she has six months left to finish raising the money needed to pay back the land contract her husband purchas...



  • In 1763 Massachusetts, Susanna Smith has grown up with everything she's ever wanted, except one thing: an education. Because she's a female, higher learning has been closed to her, but her quick mind and quicker tongue never back down from a challeng...



  • On occupied Mackinac Island, voyageur Pierre Durant and local girl Angelique Labelle must decide where their loyalties lie, and what they will risk for love. ...



  • Having grown up in a lighthouse, loneliness is all Isabelle Thornton has ever known--and all, she assumes, she ever will know. But when her lightkeeper father rescues a young man from the lake, her sheltered world is turned upside down.Bestselling au...



  • 1859 Presque Isle, Michigan What Is the Secret That Could Shipwreck Both of Their Lives? All Emma Chambers ever wanted was a home, but when her steamboat sinks just outside Presque Isle, she's left destitute and with no place to stay. An un...



  • In this ebook historical romance novella by Jody Hedlund, young Rosemarie finds herself drawn to Thomas, the son of the nearby baron. But just as her feelings begin to grow, a man carrying the Plague interrupts their hunting party. While in forced is...






  • Due to her parents' promise at her birth, Lady Rosemarie has been prepared to become a nun on the day she turns eighteen. Then, a month before her birthday, a friend of her father's enters the kingdom and proclaims her parents' will left a second cho...



  • 1865 Windmill Point, Michigan Can She Forgive the Hurting Man Who Costs Her the Role She Loves? After her father's death, Caroline Taylor has grown confident running the Windmill Point Lighthouse. But in 1865 Michigan, women aren't supposed to...



  • She was a nun of noble birth. He, a heretic, a reformer…an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire.   In the 16th century, nun Katharina von Bora’s fate fell no further than the Abbey. Until she read the writings of Martin Luther.   His sweeping C...



  • Tessa Taylor arrives in 1870s Upper Peninsula, Michigan, planning to serve as a new teacher to the town. Much to her dismay, however, she immediately learns that there was a mistake, that the town had requested a male teacher. Percival Updegraff, sup...



  • In a reverse twist on the Robin Hood story, a young medieval maiden stands up for the rights of the mistreated, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. All the while, she fights against her cruel uncle who has taken over the land that is rightful...



  • Race Point, Massachusetts, 1876

    Will she ever be able to stop running, even when she believes she’s finally safe?

    Heiress to a vast fortune, Victoria Cole has everything she wants, including the perfect fiancé. Having left two other men at...



  • Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found… Now remembered as the author of the world’s most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, J...



  • Rose Island Lighthouse, Rhode Island
    June 1880

    Will she betray his trust to stay on the island she loves?

    Abbie Watson is content to spend her days clamming, crabbing, and tending Rose Island Lighthouse. Her grandpa is the head light keepe...



  • Lady Sabine is harboring a skin blemish, one, that if revealed, could cause her to be branded as a witch, put her life in danger, and damage her chances of making a good marriage. After all, what nobleman would want to marry a woman so flawed? Sir...



  • Trying to heal the ache she feels in her empty life, wealthy Christine Pendleton decides to volunteer at Centre Street Chapel. Ministering to one of the most deprived parts of New York City, the chapel aims at making a difference in the lives of the ...






  • When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special s...



  • In this four-book ebook bind-up of romantic, fairy-tale-like YA novels from bestselling author Jody Hedlund, three separate noblewomen -- Rosemarie, Juliana, and Sabine -- face difficult choices, dangers, and painful truths as they work to find a way...



  • He’s taken her as his prisoner. But she’s holding his heart captive. In gaining their freedom, will they lose what matters most?When Lady Olivia’s castle is besieged, she and her sister are taken captive and held for ransom by her father’s en...



  • Marianne Neumann has one goal in life: to find her lost younger sister, Sophie. When Marianne takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York, she not only hopes to give children a better life but seeks to discover whe...



  • A desperate noblewoman, a rebellious peasant, and a forbidden love.

    While fleeing an arranged betrothal to a heartless lord, Lady Isabelle becomes injured and lost. Rescued by a young peasant man, she hides her identity as a noblewoman for fear of ...



  • Despite years on the run, Sophie Neumann is determined to care for two young children. She won't abandon them the way she thinks her older sisters abandoned her. But times are growing desperate, and when she falls in with the wrong crowd and witnesse...



  • Living in London's poorest slum, Mercy Wilkins has little hope of a better life. When she's offered an opportunity to join a bride ship sailing to British Columbia, she agrees. After witnessing so much painful heartache and loss in the slums,...



  • A fierce elite guard. A loyal lady in waiting. They must work together to save three princesses from certain death.

    On the verge of dying after giving birth to twins, the queen of Mercia pleads with Lady Felicia to save her infant daughters. With t...



  • An ancient key. A secret treasure. And a princess destined to use them both to fight evil and restore peace.

    Raised by a noble family, Lady Adelaide has always known she’s an orphan. Little does she realize she’s one of the lost princess...



  • A second princess. Another key to the treasure. And a cruel king desperate to squelch the growing rebellion.

    Raised in an isolated abbey, Lady Maribel desires nothing more than to become a nun and continue practicing her healing arts. She’...






  • The third lost princess. The final key to the treasure. And a battle for the throne.

    Growing up deep in the forest as a poor charcoal burner’s daughter, Emmeline has always known her identity as a princess of Mercia, and she lives in fear ...



  • Wealthy Arabella Lawrence flees to British Columbia on a bride ship still wearing the scars of past mistakes. One of the few single women in the boomtown, she immediately has suitors, but she is determined not to find herself trapped again by a poor ...



  • Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime. Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Meri...



  • Always close, but never a bride. Longing to find true love, Kate Millington arrives in British Columbia on a bride ship. With countless men waiting to snag a bride, Kate has no trouble getting engaged. It’s staying engaged that’s the problem. ...



  • In a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A beautiful noblewoman with a terrible secret, and a prince subjected to slavery.Upon the death of her wealthy father, Lady Gabriella is condemned to work in Warwick's gem mine. As she struggle...



  • In a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A princess rejected and hunted by her mother, and a prince who lives as a shunned outcast.Princess Pearl flees for her life after her mother, Queen Margery, tries to have her killed during a hu...



  • In a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A young queen trying to stay alive until she comes of age to rule, and a prince turned into a pauper.Queen Aurora of Mercia has spent her entire life deep in Inglewood Forest, hiding from Warwi...



  • Greta Nilsson's trip west to save her ailing little sister, Astrid, could not have gone more wrong. First, bandits hold up her stagecoach, stealing all her money. Then, upon arriving in Fairplay, Colorado, she learns the man she was betrothed to ...



  • The ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy. That's exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father's quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister Ellen from the genetic disease that stol...



  • When he agreed to guard her, he never bargained on having to guard his heart. Brilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Santa Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Howell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado ...






  • During a time when legends were born . . .ENAMOREDA princess in need of a husband, a young Sage who cannot have her, and a web of deceit that threatens their love.Having been raised by her childless aunt and uncle, the king and queen, Princess Elinor...



  • During a time when legends were born . . .ENTWINEDA princess cursed from birth, a loyal knight worthy of being king, and a sword that can determine their destiny.After growing up on a remote farm, Lis learns she is the rightful heir to the throne of ...



  • In the last stages of a genetic disease, Ellen Creighton has decided to live out her remaining days at the estate of her longtime friend Harrison Burlington. Harrison cares deeply for Ellen, but as a wheelchair-bound paraplegic, he's never allowed hi...



  • They share a passion to heal what is broken, but it's their own hearts that need to be made whole.  Brody McQuaid is a broken man, and he knows it. While his body survived the war, his soul did not. Besides loving his little niece, his only sens...



  • During a time when legends were born . . .ENSNAREDA poor maidservant struggling to survive, a brave knight who secretly loves her, and a chalice that has the power to unite them.Nursemaid to the Earl of Likness's two young daughters, Mikaela despises...



  • During a time when legends were born . . .ENRICHEDA wealthy noblewoman with a heart of gold, a wounded knight closed off to love, and the sacrifices for a chalice that can bring healing.Lady Karina lives in a convent and expects to become a nun somed...



  • During a time when legends were born . . .ENFLAMEDThe most beautiful noblewoman in the kingdom, the lowly knight who can never have her, and the forbidden love they share.When Sylvi Prestegard discovers that her father has arranged for her to marry a...



  • During a time when legends were born . . .ENTRUSTEDThe feisty enemy princess, the cunning knight holding her captive, and the ultimate battle that will determine their fate.Hoping to minimize the death and destruction of the coming war, Princess Birg...



  • Years ago, he shattered her heart. Now she must trust him with her life.  As the only girl in her family, and with four older brothers, Ivy McQuaid can rope and ride with the roughest of ranchers. She's ready to have what she's always longed for...



  • Sacrificing and dying to oneself is costly.But doing so brings new purpose and joy.As a private investigator, Sybil Huxham has seen her fair share of strange occurrences. But nothing in her career has been more perplexing than the miracles she's witn...






  • With danger drawing ever closer, their only hope of saving their futures lies in each other. As a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing new life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's acc...



  • When the darkness closes all around,Beauty is still there just waiting to be found.Dawson Huxham blames himself for his sister's death . . . until he briefly crosses time and discovers she's alive in the Middle Ages. Hoping to reconnect with her, he ...



  • Charity Courtney is at her wit's end trying to save her boardinghouse from a bank foreclosure. Short of money but not short of marriage proposals, she dreads putting aside her fairy tale dreams of love and having to settle for a marriage of convenien...



  • After years away, Astrid Nilsson has returned home to Colorado, hoping to become Fairplay's second doctor . . . and to find healing for her reoccurring consumption. Spirited and independent, Astrid doesn't want her illness to be a burden to those she...



  • When unexpected visitors arrive at the Courtney Boardinghouse and claim the place belongs to them, Patience Courtney finds herself homeless and penniless. Having failed at so many things already in life, Patience is determined to find a way to surviv...



  • Now that her sisters are both married, Felicity Courtney manages the Courtney Boardinghouse alone. After nearly collapsing from exhaustion while caring for an invalid man and his wife who are staying at the boardinghouse, Felicity posts an advertisem...



  • "Jody Hedlund's novels are a joy to read."--ELIZABETH CAMDEN, RITA and Christy Award-winning author "A historical romance reader's delight. Treat yourself! Jody Hedlund does not disappoint."--ROBIN LEE HATCHER, Christy Award-winning author  Hau...



  • A new world. A new hope. An unexpected love.What life awaits these brides?With the cotton mills closed and hunger rampant in Manchester, England, Willow Rhodes's family encourages her to join the bride ship bound for the Pacific Northwest, where she ...



  • In twenty-four hours, marriage, mystery, and mayhem.After recently arriving in Vancouver Island on a bride ship, aspiring seamstress Daisy Harper is determined not to rush into a hasty and quarrelsome marriage, a mistake her parents made. To avoid ch...



  • After her annulment is finalized, Enya Shanahan finds herself caught in a web of scandal and obligation while carrying a secret that threatens to shatter her family's reputation. Determined to find a suitable marriage for Enya, her father turns to a ...


Award-Winning Books by Jody Hedlund

Luther and Katharina
2016 Christy Award -- Historical Romance
A Noble Groom
2014 Carol Award -- Historical Romance
2014 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jody Hedlund has published 59 books.

The next book by Jody Hedlund, Saved by the Matchmaker, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Jody Hedlund, The Preacher's Bride, was published in October 2010.

Yes. Jody Hedlund has 12 series.