Jane Kirkpatrick

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1997
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Change and Cherish

1 - A Clearing in the Wild (Apr-2006)
2 - A Tendering in the Storm (Apr-2007)
3 - A Mending at the Edge (Apr-2008)

Dream Catcher

A Gathering of Finches (Oct-1997)
Mystic Sweet Communion (Oct-1998)
A Sweetness to the Soul (Sep-2008)
Love to Water My Soul (Sep-2008)

Kinship and Courage

1 - All Together in One Place (Mar-2000)
2 - No Eye Can See (Feb-2001)
3 - What Once We Loved (Sep-2001)

Portraits of the Heart

1 - A Flickering Light (Apr-2009)
2 - An Absence So Great (Mar-2010)

Tender Ties

1 - A Name of Her Own (Aug-2002)
2 - Every Fixed Star (Jun-2003)
3 - Hold Tight the Thread (Apr-2004)

The Women of Cannon Beach

1 - Across the Crying Sands (May-2025)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Homestead

    Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattlesnakes, and sand in eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick uneasily relinquishes the security of a professional career; the convenience of electricity, running wa...

  • A Gathering of Finches

    Dream Catcher

    Lottie, my Coos Indian maid, called it "the going over place." Cassie Hendrick Stearns crossed the Oregon coastal tidewaters in 1899 to begin her life beside the prosperous entrepreneur Lewis Simpson on Oregon's wild and rugged coast. After her ma...

  • Mystic Sweet Communion

    Dream Catcher

    Set in turn-of-the-century Florida, this frontier saga traces the life of Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, the first English-speaking teacher in the region, as she struggles to teach school in the Seminole Nation and lead Indian families to Christ. Ivy is di...

  • All Together in One Place

    Kinship and Courage - 1

    For Madison "Mazy" Bacon, a young wife living in southern Wisconsin, the future appears every bit as promising as it is reassuringly predictable. A loving marriage, a well- organized home, the pleasure of planting an early spring garden--these are th...

  • No Eye Can See

    Kinship and Courage - 2

    Suzanne felt the tears press at her eyes as the dream-state drifted away -- taking with it the sight of the man she loved. Awake, she blinked back the tears. This was her life now. The sounds of the women and oxen, those were real. And the darkness -...

  • What Once We Loved

    Kinship and Courage - 3

    A CIRCLE OF COURAGEOUS WOMEN DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE, FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE Ruth Martin had a dream: to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children. But when her friend Mazy's inactio...

  • A Name of Her Own

    Tender Ties - 1

    Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war,...

  • Every Fixed Star

    Tender Ties - 2

    Continuing the Tender Ties Historical Series, Every Fixed Star brings readers more of the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion: the real-life woman who was the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest. In Book ...

  • Hold Tight the Thread

    Tender Ties - 3

    BASED ON A TRUE STORYIn a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace...



  • A Land of Sheltered Promise

    Follow three women from three eras in the Pacific Northwest as they discover a place where miracles really happen -- based on true stories.1901: Plagued by loneliness on the Big Muddy Ranch, a sheepherder’s wife awaits the outcome of her hus...

  • A Clearing in the Wild

    Change and Cherish - 1

    A Community Searching for Refuge, A Woman Finding Her Voice The people of Bethel, Missouri, seek to live with simplicity and generosity, existing in world of the 1850s but remaining set apart from its distractions and vanities. Rather than finding...

  • A Tendering in the Storm

    Change and Cherish - 2

    Emma Giesy, a strong-willed German-American, believes her young family will thrive in the light of their newfound freedom, after she and her husband branch off from their close-knit and repressive religious community in the spring of 1856. A Stor...

  • A Mending at the Edge

    Change and Cherish - 3

    "Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most." So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to th...

  • Love to Water My Soul

    Dream Catcher

    Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a place of belonging...only to be cast away from he...

  • A Sweetness to the Soul

    Dream Catcher

    Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the ...

  • A Flickering Light

    Portraits of the Heart - 1

    Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F. J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photograp...

  • An Absence So Great

    Portraits of the Heart - 2

    Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart's emptiness? While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele's personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she's put an unfortunate ro...

  • The Daughter's Walk

    A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in...

  • Barcelona Calling

    HOW FAR WILL ANNIE GO TO BECOME FAMOUS? Annie Shaw's dreams are far from simple: become a famous author and fall in love. But she's in trouble after quitting her day job to write full-time. While her first novel was successful, her second novel ta...



  • The Courting Quilt

    in A Log Cabin Christmas

    Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough-hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love...

  • Where Lilacs Still Bloom

    One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education -- and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create...

  • A Mother's Cry

    in The Midwife's Legacy (Romancing America)

    Peek into an aged journal that links the adventurous lives of four courageous midwives. Wisconsin farmer, widow, mother, and midwife Adele Marley is to...

  • One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix

    One dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separated fr...

  • A Saving Grace

    in Sincerely Yours

    Grace Hathaway must rescue a dear friend from a remote and notorious clinic that promises healing but delivers only heartache. In a place laced with deceit, where lives hang in the balance, whom can she trust to help her?...

  • A Light in the Wilderness

    Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to...

  • The Memory Weaver

    Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start...

  • This Road We Traveled

    Drama, Adventure, and Family Struggles Abound as Three Generations Head West on the Oregon Trail When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's conc...

  • All She Left Behind

    Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt beh...

  • Everything She Didn't Say

    In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, a...



  • One More River to Cross

    In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-d...

  • Something Worth Doing

    In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes ...

  • The Healing of Natalie Curtis

    Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can't seem to recapture the joy music once brought...

  • Beneath the Bending Skies

    Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she truly have in 1860s Montana? But providing for her...

  • Across the Crying Sands

    The Women of Cannon Beach - 1

    In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a cheerful, well-read, witty, and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, are making a home. The two are a formidable pair, workin...

Award-Winning Books by Jane Kirkpatrick

A Light in the Wilderness
2015 WILLA Literary Award -- Paperback Original
A Tendering in the Storm
2008 WILLA Literary Award -- Paperback Original
Where Lilacs Still Bloom
2013 Carol Award -- Historical


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jane Kirkpatrick has published 34 books.

The next book by Jane Kirkpatrick, Across the Crying Sands, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Jane Kirkpatrick, Homestead, was published in May 1997.

Yes. Jane Kirkpatrick has 6 series.
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