Jody Hedlund

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2010
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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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)

High Country Ranch

1 - Willing to Wed the Rancher (Jun-2024)
2 - A Wife for the Rancher (Oct-2024)
3 - Wrangling the Wandering Rancher (Oct-2024)
4 - Wishing for the Rancher's Love (Nov-2024)

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: 65 titles

  • The Preacher's Bride

    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 ...

  • The Doctor's Lady

    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...

  • Unending Devotion

    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, ...

  • A Noble Groom

    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...

  • Rebellious Heart

    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...

  • Captured by Love

    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. ...

  • Out of the Storm

    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...

  • Love Unexpected

    Beacons of Hope - 1

    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...

  • The Vow

    Uncertain Choice - 0.5

    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...



  • An Uncertain Choice

    Uncertain Choice - 1

    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...

  • Hearts Made Whole

    Beacons of Hope - 2

    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...

  • Luther and Katharina

    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...

  • Undaunted Hope

    Beacons of Hope - 3

    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...

  • A Daring Sacrifice

    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...

  • Forever Safe

    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...

  • Newton and Polly

    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...

  • Never Forget

    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...

  • For Love and Honor

    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...

  • An Awakened Heart

    Orphan Train - 0.5

    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 ...



  • With You Always

    Orphan Train - 1

    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...

  • The Noble Knights bindup

    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...

  • A Loyal Heart

    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...

  • Together Forever

    Orphan Train - 2

    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 Worthy Rebel

    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 ...

  • Searching for You

    Orphan Train - 3

    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...

  • A Reluctant Bride

    The Bride Ships - 1

    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,...

  • Always

    The Lost Princesses - 1.5

    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...

  • Evermore

    The Lost Princesses - 1

    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...

  • Foremost

    The Lost Princesses - 2

    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’...



  • Hereafter

    The Lost Princesses - 3

    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 ...

  • The Runaway Bride

    The Bride Ships - 2

    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 ...

  • A Bride of Convenience

    The Bride Ships - 3

    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...

  • Almost a Bride

    The Bride Ships - 4

    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. ...

  • Beholden

    The Fairest Maidens - 1

    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...

  • Beguiled

    The Fairest Maidens - 2

    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...

  • Besotted

    The Fairest Maidens - 3

    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...

  • A Cowboy for Keeps

    Colorado Cowboys - 1

    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 ...

  • Come Back to Me

    Waters of Time - 1

    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...

  • The Heart of a Cowboy

    Colorado Cowboys - 2

    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 ...



  • Enamored

    Knights of Brethren - 1

    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...

  • Entwined

    Knights of Brethren - 2

    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 ...

  • Never Leave Me

    Waters of Time - 2

    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...

  • To Tame a Cowboy

    Colorado Cowboys - 3

    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...

  • Ensnared

    Knights of Brethren - 3

    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...

  • Enriched

    Knights of Brethren - 4

    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...

  • Enflamed

    Knights of Brethren - 5

    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...

  • Entrusted

    Knights of Brethren - 6

    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...

  • Falling for the Cowgirl

    Colorado Cowboys - 4

    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...

  • Stay With Me

    Waters of Time - 3

    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...



  • The Last Chance Cowboy

    Colorado Cowboys - 5

    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...

  • Wait For Me

    Waters of Time - 4

    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 ...

  • Cherishing the Cowgirl

    Colorado Cowgirls - 2

    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...

  • Committing to the Cowgirl

    Colorado Cowgirls - 1

    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...

  • Convincing the Cowgirl

    Colorado Cowgirls - 3

    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...

  • Captivated by the Cowgirl

    Colorado Cowgirls - 4

    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...

  • Calling on the Matchmaker

    A Shanahan Match - 1

    "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...

  • Finally His Bride

    Bride Ships: New Voyages - 1

    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 ...

  • His Treasured Bride

    Bride Ships: New Voyages - 2

    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...

  • Willing to Wed the Rancher

    High Country Ranch - 1

    Assistant schoolteacher Clarabelle Oakley has a hard time saying no. When Eric Meyer, widowed father of two of her young students, proposes to her, she botches her effort to tell him no and that she wants to marry for love, not convenience. Only days...

  • Saved by the Matchmaker

    A Shanahan Match - 2

    "A delightful, heartwarming love story filled with admirable people, charming Irish traditions, and the culture of nineteenth-century St. Louis."--Elizabeth Camden, RITA and Christy Award-winning author on Calling on the Matchmaker After her annulme...

  • A Wife for the Rancher

    High Country Ranch - 2

    In the high country of Colorado, hardships are a given, but love has a way of overcoming all the losses.Millionaire heiress, Genevieve Hollis, has everything she wants except one thing, freedom, because her guardian stepmother insists on overseeing e...

  • Wrangling the Wandering Rancher

    High Country Ranch - 3

  • Wishing for the Rancher's Love

    High Country Ranch - 4

  • A Wager with the Matchmaker

    After her brother's entanglement with an Irish gang threatens their family's safety, Alannah Darragh flees St. Louis and her troubled past, seeking refuge as a maid for the affluent Shanahan family. Alannah's resolve to avoid romance is tested by the...

  • Waiting for the Rancher

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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 65 books.

The next book by Jody Hedlund, A Wager with the Matchmaker, will be published in May 2025.

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

Yes. Jody Hedlund has 13 series.
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