Denise Hunter

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1999
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Big Sky Romance

1 - A Cowboy's Touch (Apr-2011)
2 - The Accidental Bride (Jan-2012)
3 - The Trouble with Cowboys (Oct-2012)

Blue Ridge

1 - Blue Ridge Sunrise (Nov-2017)
2 - Honeysuckle Dreams (May-2018)
3 - On Magnolia Lane (Nov-2018)

A Bluebell Inn Romance

1 - Lake Season (Nov-2019)
2 - Carolina Breeze (May-2020)
3 - Autumn Skies (Oct-2020)

Chapel Springs

1 - Barefoot Summer (Jun-2013)
2 - Dancing with Fireflies (Mar-2014)
3 - The Wishing Season (Dec-2014)
4 - Married 'Til Monday (Jun-2015)

Nantucket

1 - Surrender Bay (Nov-2007)
2 - The Convenient Groom (Apr-2008)
3 - The Seaside Letters (Mar-2000)
4 - Driftwood Lane (Jul-2010)

New Heights

1 - Mending Places (Feb-2004)
2 - Saving Grace (Mar-2005)
3 - Finding Faith (Mar-2006)

Riverbend

1 - Riverbend Gap (Oct-2021)
2 - Mulberry Hollow (Apr-2022)
3 - Harvest Moon (Sep-2022)
4 - Wildflower Falls (Sep-2023)

Summer Harbor

1 - Falling Like Snowflakes (Sep-2015)
2 - The Goodbye Bride (Mar-2016)
3 - Just a Kiss (Sep-2016)

Multi-Author Series List

Smitten Novellas

4 - Reese - All Along (Jun-2012)
8 - Love Blooms (Jan-2013)
12 - Happily Ever After (Jan-2014)

A Year of Weddings

1 - A December Bride (Dec-2013)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • Stranger's Bride

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 328

    Nathan McClain is backed into a corner. Either he must marry, as dictated by his father's will, or he will lose the ranch that has been in his family for three generations. Angry and bitter about his choices, he seeks a woman who will join herself to...

  • The Seaside Letters

    Nantucket - 3

    Their letters could lead to lasting love . . . or expose Sabrina's mortifying secret. Sabrina Kincaid didn't intend to fall for Nantucket native Tucker McCabe, the man she serves coffee to every morning-a man tied deeply to a past she deeply regr...

  • Truth or Dare

    in Reunions

    The spark of love stands the test of time and is fanned to a flame as four couples are reunited. These contemporary novellas include four reunion celebrations -- high school, college, family, and organ donors -- that will tug at the tightest of heart...

  • Never a Bride

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 379

    God either has a cruel streak or a peculiar sense of humor. At least that is what "Plain" Jane Cooper thinks. Why else would He have stuck her smack in the middle of the beautiful Cooper family? And why did she have to get duped into minding house fo...

  • Bittersweet Bride

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 475

    The one suitor Mara Lawton cannot add to her collection is the one she wants most--Clay Stedman. Clay has just arrived in Cedar Springs to work the Stedman ranch. His widowed aunt is leaving to visit family back East, and Clay must find someone to ca...

  • Game of Love

    in Aloha

    Beautiful, romantic Maui is home to the four Harrigan brothers, who, since taking over Harrigan's Cove resort from their father, spend their days focused on work. There are endless details involved in keeping the business afloat- but love can't help...

  • Perfect Match

    in Blind Dates

    Mattie Stevens has forgotten about Jeff Weatherly. After all, it's been years since the two were an item...but Grandma certainly remembers. What can Mattie do when Jeff returns to town and Grandma pushes her back toward "the one who got away"? As a s...

  • His Brother's Bride

    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 548

    Emily Wagner will be a mail-order bride. This arrangement will answer all of her problems - best buried. But when she arrives in Cedar Bend, Kansas, she finds her world has been turned upside-down. Cade Manning needs a mother for his son Adam. He ...

  • Mending Places

    New Heights - 1

    When mountain guide Micah Gallagher is hired by the spirited Hanna Alexander to help raise revenues for her failing family lodge, a high-country adventure filled with love, intrigue, and romance ensues.Almost immediately upon meeting the mysterious m...



  • Saving Grace

    New Heights - 2

    Award-winning author Denise Hunter captivates the readers with her latest fiction about a single mother running a crisis pregnancy center. As if the jolt of becoming a single mom to her two sons wasn’t enough, Natalie Coombs is facing new stresses ...

  • Finding Faith

    New Heights - 3

    Set in the high-pressure world of a Chicago TV newsroom, award-winning author Denise Hunter brings to life a heartwarming story of love and pain, desperate choices with dire consequences, and honesty and redemption. One woman sacrificing everything f...

  • Surrender Bay

    Nantucket - 1

    When Sam's estranged step-father dies, she inherits his ocean-front cottage in Nantucket -- not because he kindly bequeathed it to her, but because he neglected to ever create a will. Sam returns to the island she left 11 years ago with her daughter ...

  • The Convenient Groom

    Nantucket - 2

    Dr. Kate has it all-a radio talk show, a nationally-syndicated column, and a publisher who is paying for a lavish wedding to coincide with the release of her first book, Finding Mr. Right-For-You. But when her fiance jilts her the morning of the wedd...

  • Sweetwater Gap

    A STORY OF Love AND Second Chances SHE WISHED SHE COULD GO BACK AND CHANGE, THINGS...BUT LIFE DOESN'T GIVE DO-OVERS. COULD ANYTHING BUT GOOD-BYES BE WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SWEETWATER gap? Josie Mitchell's sister Laurel thinks she's com...

  • Driftwood Lane

    Nantucket - 4

    Meridith believes she is capable of weathering any storm. But she's never experienced a love powerful enough to uproot her heart ... until now. Meridith Ward has crafted a carefully ordered life to make up for the chaos that plagued her childhood ye...

  • The Convenient Groom & The Wedding Machine

    A special bundle of two books authored by Denise Hunter. "The Convenient Groom" and "Wedding Machine"....

  • A Cowboy's Touch

    A Big Sky Romance - 1

    Abigail is just in Moose Creek, Montana for the summer to temporarily care for her great aunt. But a tender-hearted cowboy beckons her to stay. Abigail Jones intends to spend just one summer in middle-of-nowhere Montana with her Aunt Lucy. Time aw...

  • The Accidental Bride

    A Big Sky Romance - 2

    When a wedding reenactment turns real, this cowgirl suddenly finds she's an accidental bride. Shay Brandenberger is raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. Despite her hard work, ...

  • Reese - All Along

    in Smitten
    Smitten Novellas - 4

    Welcome to Smitten, Vermont.With the help of four friends, it’s about to become the most romantic town in America.The proposed closing of the lumber mill comes as unwelcome news for the citizens of Smitten. How will the town survive without its mai...



  • The Trouble with Cowboys

    A Big Sky Romance - 3

    Only one pair of boots -- and the cowboy wearing them -- can get Annie out of the mess she’s in. Annie Wilkerson is Moose Creek’s premiere horse trainer and equine columnist for Montana Living. Money is tight as she tries to put her kid-siste...

  • Love Blooms

    in Secretly Smitten
    Smitten Novellas - 8

    Summer, fall, winter, spring -- Smitten, Vermont, is the place for love . . . and mystery! There’s a secret in Grandma Rose’s attic -- a forgotten set of dog tags belonging to her first love. But David Hutchins was killed in action and never r...

  • Barefoot Summer

    Chapel Springs - 1

    Madison’s heart has been closed for years. But one summer can change everything. In the years since her twin brother’s drowning, Madison McKinley has struggled to put it behind her. Despite the support of her close-knit family and her gratifyi...

  • A December Bride

    A Year of Weddings - 1

    A year's worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed. What started as a whim turned into an accidental---and very public---engagement. Can Layla and Seth keep up the facade in Chapel Springs this holi...

  • Happily Ever After

    in Smitten Book Club
    Smitten Novellas - 12

    The century-old Gentlewoman’s Guide to Love and Courtship is no ordinary book club choice. But for the little book club in Smitten, Vermont, it might be their best pick yet! The thick, leathery tome Heather pulled out of the dusty cardboard box ...

  • Dancing with Fireflies

    Chapel Springs - 2

    Jade returns home to Chapel Springs after years of protecting her fragile heart. Then along comes Daniel, making her long to dance again. Creative and complicated, Jade McKinley felt like a weed in a rose garden growing up in Chapel Springs. When ...

  • Sweetly Smitten

    All AlongWhen Reese Mackenzie -- Smitten, Vermont’s finest planner -- falls for her best friend Griffen, she hatches a scheme to capture his romantic attention. She asks him to help her win back her old-flame, thinking the time pretending to be a c...

  • The Wishing Season

    Chapel Springs - 3

    In this competition, it’s not just the house on the line, it’s their hearts. She has the touch when it comes to food, but PJ McKinley’s dream of opening her own restaurant is one building short of reality. So when a Chapel Springs resident o...

  • Married 'Til Monday

    Chapel Springs - 4

    With a big anniversary party in the works for his ex-wife’s parents, Ryan has just one weekend to play Abby’s husband . . . and win back the woman of his dreams. Ryan McKinley has tried to move on from his ex-wife, Abby. He’s sulked, he’s ...

  • Falling Like Snowflakes

    Summer Harbor - 1

    Eden Martelli is too busy fleeing the clutches of danger to realize she’s running straight into the arms of a new love. Speeding north through rural Maine, Eden Martelli wonders how her life came to this -- on the run with her mute five-year-old...



  • The Goodbye Bride

    Summer Harbor - 2

    She only remembers loving him. But he can’t forget the way she left. Lucy Lovett can’t remember the last seven months of her life. She doesn’t remember leaving her fiancé Zac Callahan weeks before their wedding or moving to Portland, Maine....

  • Just a Kiss

    Summer Harbor - 3

    Riley Callahan’s plans to reveal his secret feelings for his best friend are derailed when his life is drastically altered in Afghanistan. Watching the love of his life fall for his brother was enough to send Riley straight to boot camp. But ove...

  • Sweetbriar Cottage

    When Noah and Josephine discover their divorce was never actually finalized, their lives are turned upside down. Following his divorce, Noah gave up his dream job and settled at a remote horse ranch in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia,...

  • Blue Ridge Sunrise

    Blue Ridge - 1

    Former free spirit Zoe Collins swore she’d never again set foot in Copper Creek or speak to the man who broke her heart. But return she must when her beloved Granny dies, leaving the family legacy to Zoe--a peach orchard nestled at the base of the ...

  • Honeysuckle Dreams

    Blue Ridge - 2

    Brady Collins is juggling full-time fatherhood with the booming auto repair business he runs out of his barn. His ex-wife's sudden death has shaken him, but the devastating news that follows leaves him reeling: Sam is not his biological son. When ...

  • On Magnolia Lane

    Blue Ridge - 3

    From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes the final book in Hunter’s Blue Ridge Romance series. Pastor Jack McReady has secretly carried a torch for Daisy for two long years. She’s a memb...

  • Lake Season

    A Bluebell Inn Romance - 1

    Romance and old secrets beckon in this small North Carolina lake town. When her parents die in a tragic accident, Molly Bennett and her siblings pull together to fulfill their parents’ dream of turning their historic Bluebell, North Carolina, ho...

  • Carolina Breeze

    A Bluebell Inn Romance - 2

    A jilted bride. A struggling innkeeper. And a romantic mountain getaway that changes everything. Rising Hollywood star Mia Emerson is looking for a safe place to land in the wake of a public breakup and scandal, and she finds it in the lake town o...

  • Autumn Skies

    A Bluebell Inn Romance - 3

    From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom and A December Bride (now beloved Hallmark Original movies) comes the third and final novel in the Bluebell Inn series! When a mysterious man turns up at Grace’s family-run inn, it’s instant ...

  • Bookshop by the Sea

    Sophie Lawson should be enjoying her sister’s wedding day. But nothing could have prepared her to see the best man again.After her mother became bedridden and her father bailed on the family, Sophie found herself serving as a second mother to her t...



  • Riverbend Gap

    Riverbend - 1

    When off-duty deputy Cooper Robinson happens upon a car balanced on the edge of a cliff, he does everything he can think of to distract the distraught driver from her perilous situation -- and the attraction is instantaneous. The problem? She’s his...

  • Mulberry Hollow

    Riverbend - 2

    When a handsome handyman faces a medical emergency on the Appalachian trail, his sudden appearance in town challenges an ambitious doctor’s plan to remain single for life.Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother...

  • Harvest Moon

    Riverbend - 3

    She thought he was arrogant. He thought her walls would never come down. Then they fell in love.Forever walking the line between passion and conflict, Laurel and Gavin’s relationship ended in divorce after years of miscommunication and unmet expect...

  • A Novel Proposal

    When western novelist Sadie Goodwin must pen a romance novel to rescue her lackluster sales, there’s only one tiny problem: she’s never been in love.Desperate to salvage her career, Sadie accepts an invitation to hole up at her friend’s beach d...

  • Wildflower Falls

    Riverbend - 4

    He’s here to train her horses, and then he’s moving on. She’s keeping her true identity a secret. But their spark complicates both of their plans.When her mother’s death leaves Charlotte Simpson bereft, she hopes the Robinson clan will accept...

  • Love, Unscripted

    The perfect boyfriend only exists on paper…doesn’t he?Fresh off the heels of a bad breakup, Chloe Anderson poured her heart into penning the perfect boyfriend -- and the result was an off-the-charts debut beach read that resonated with women worl...

  • Before We Were Us

    She can’t remember. He can’t forget.When Lauren Wentworth wakes up in the hospital after falling from a ladder, she has more questions than answers. Way more. She knows where she is -- the wilds of New Hampshire. But she’s appare...

  • The Summer of You and Me

    Maggie Reynolds is finally ready for love again -- until the past shows up in the form of someone who may or may not be the late husband she thought she'd lost.Five years after her husband's death, Maggie is finally ready to let go of him and the dre...

  • Summer by the Tides

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes a heartfelt story of family secrets, forgiveness, and unexpected romance. A summer of low tides could expose years of family secrets. . . One of Souther...

Award-Winning Books by Denise Hunter

Barefoot Summer
2014 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Romance


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Denise Hunter has published 48 books.

The next book by Denise Hunter, The Summer of You and Me, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Denise Hunter, Stranger's Bride, was published in April 1999.

Yes. Denise Hunter has 8 series.
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