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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1985
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Great Lakes Romances

1 - Mackinac (Jun-2013)
2 - The Captain and the Widow (Aug-2014)
3 - Sweethearts of Sleeping Bear Bay (Jan-1995)
4 - Charlotte of South Manitou Island (Jan-2015)
5 - Aurora of North Manitou Island (May-2015)
6 - Bridget of Cat's Head Point (Jun-2015)
7 - Queen City Candy Shoppe (Jul-2015)
8 - Fayette: A Time to Love (Apr-2003)
9 - Fayette: A Time to Laugh (Jan-2005)
10 - A Time to Leave (Aug-2016)
11 - Jenny of L'Anse Bay (Jan-1994)
12 - Elizabeth of Saginaw Bay (Jul-1986)
13 - Unlikely Duet (May-1998)
14 - Butterfly Come Home (Oct-2000)
15 - Isabelle's Inning (Nov-2015)
16 - Bluebird of Brockport (Oct-2012)
17 - Saving Mossy Point (Mar-2015)
18 - For the Love of Roses (Feb-1985)
19 - Trail Ride by the Yadkin River (Jul-2015)
20 - Mountains of Love (Jul-2019)

Book List in Order: 21 titles




  • Twenty year old Elizabeth Brownell Morgan goes to Saginaw Bay with her husband Jacob, a banker, to whom she has been married only a month. Her cousin thought she had lost her mind to go to such a forsaken area. Elizabeth soon thinks she should have l...



  • Jenny of L’Anse Bay, Special Edition in the series of Great Lakes Romances® is set in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan in 1867. Eager to escape the fiery disaster that leaves her home in ashes, Jennifer Crawford sets out on an adventure to...



  • Mary Ellen Jenkins is a woman of rare courage and experience. One of only four females licensed as navigators and steamboat masters on the Western Rivers, she is accustomed to finding her way through dense fog on the Mississippi. But when she travels...



  • Caroline Chappell practiced long and hard for her recital on the piano and organ in Caledonia’s Methodist Episcopal Church. She even took up the trumpet and composed a duet to perform with Joshua Bolden, an ace trumpet player whom she’d long admi...




  • Deborah Dapprich’s flighty ways had earned her the nickname, “Butterfly,” in childhood. Now, as a young woman of eighteen in the year 1905, her impetuous wanderings brought unanticipated trouble. A marriage of convenience to her childhood frien...




  • The greatest passion of Flora McAdams' life has always been her love of animals. From girlhood, she has made it her mission to care for orphaned wild creatures and ailing family pets in the pig iron town of Fayette. Now, at age eighteen, she has no l...







  • This premier title in the Great Lakes Romances series takes readers to Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the year 1895. There, the prestigious resort, Grand Hotel, offers an opulent setting for Victorian romance. Victoria Whitmore, a 20-year-old Grand Ra...



  • Lily Atwood Haynes is beautiful, intelligent, and alone at the helm of a shipping company at the tender age of twenty. Then Captain Hoyt Curtiss offers to help her navigate the choppy waters of widowhood. Together, can they keep a new shipping line -...



  • Charlotte Richards’ carefree world turns upside down on her eleventh birthday, the day her beloved papa dies in a spring storm on Lake Michigan. Without the persistence of fifteen-year-old Seth Trevelyn, son of South Manitou Island’s lightkeeper,...



  • When retired schoolteacher and widow Betty Hanson learns that the 51st State of Superior is about to close Mossy Point State Park, she expresses her concern to Ray Engstrom, the head of the General Land Office. But Mr. Engstrom reveals a discouraging...



  • With her new husband, Harrison, lying helpless after an accident on stormy Lake Michigan, Aurora finds marriage far from the glorious romantic adventure she had anticipated. And when Serilda Anders appears out of his past to tend the light and nurse ...



  • When Bridget Richards leaves South Manitou Island to take up residence on Michigan’s mainland, she suffers no lack of ardent suitors. Only days after the loss of his wife, Nat Trevelyn, Bridget’s closest friend and the father of a two-year-old so...



  • Soon after Rosalie Foxe arrives in the Queen City of northern Michigan for the summer of 1900, she stands at the center of a candy shoppe controversy. Accused of frittering away a gold coin meant for her aunt and uncle’s candy shoppe mortgage payme...



  • When Vanda Mae Foxe’s cherished mare takes sick and dies, she leaves a huge hole in the sixteen-year-old girl’s heart. Thankfully, her daddy’s expansive North Carolina horse farm has plenty of room for a new favorite, and her next-door-neighbor...



  • Born and raised in the heart of Great Lakes Country, Isabelle Dorlon paid little attention to the baseball players patronizing her mother’s rooming house -- until 1903 when Jack Weatherby moved in. Polite and reserved, he attracted her from the sta...






  • At age fourteen, Violet Harrigan encounters two tragedies -- the death of her father, and the resulting need to move several miles from home. The situation is more than she can bear. But a true friend sticks closer than a brother. Guy Legard visits V...



  • For all of her twenty-three years, Cedena Rossier has led a sheltered life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. And then she goes to the Fair. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens up a fascinating world of excitement and friendships ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donna Winters has published 21 books.

Donna Winters does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mountains of Love, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Donna Winters, For the Love of Roses, was published in February 1985.

Yes. Donna Winters has 1 series.