Melanie Dobson

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2006
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Multi-Author Series List

An American Tapestry

Where the Trail Ends (Oct-2012)
The Courier of Caswell Hall (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Together for Good

    Abby Wagner's past still haunts her as she remembers the baby boy she lost. Now, twenty years later, Abby returns to her family's cottage only to discover a miracle in the most unexpected place. Guaranteed fiction!...

  • The Black Cloister

    On Elise Friedman's eighth birthday, she lost her mother and any connection to her mysterious past. Raised by her loving stepfather, Elise has spent years trying to learn the truth about her mother, Catrina, and her birth family in Germany, but still...

  • Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana

    Love Finds You

    LOVE FINDS YOU IN A DIVIDED TOWN DURING A DANGEROUS ERA, WHO CAN BE TRUSTED? Liberty, Indiana, is home to a stop on the Underground Railroad operated by Quaker abolitionists Anna Brent and her father. Harboring runaway slaves is a dangerous missi...

  • Refuge on Crescent Hill

    Moving home after a recent job loss was supposed to reassure Camden Bristow but what she finds is an empty mansion 150 years old. What happened to the house she played in as a child, the bedtime stories that told of secret passageways and runaway sla...

  • Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa

    Love Finds You

    Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome t...

  • The Silent Order

    CLEVELAND, OHIO, 1928. Dark secrets bind the notorious Cardano family together, but Detective Rollin Wells is close to exposing them. The Cardanos are working in the hills south of Cleveland, and when Rollin travels to Sugarcreek to investigate, he d...

  • Love Finds You in Amana, Iowa

    Love Finds You

    As the rest of the nation is embroiled in Civil War, the Amana Colonies remain peaceful. Amalie Wiese arrives in the newly built village of Amana in 1863 only to find that her betrothed, Friedrich, has left to fight with the Union army. Amalie tries ...

  • Love Finds You in Nazareth, Pennsylvania

    Love Finds You

    They were strangers when they married, but they both long for love. Christian and Susanna had never met when they were chosen by lot to marry in a Moravian community in Germany. But in 1755, they traveled with a dozen other newly married couples to N...

  • Love Finds You in Mackinac Island, Michigan

    Love Finds You

    It's the height of the Gilded Age, but Elena Bissette's family has lost most of its fortune. The Bissettes still own a home on fashionable Mackinac Island, and they spend summers there in hopes of introducing Elena to a wealthy suitor. Quickly tiring...



  • Where the Trail Ends

    An American Tapestry

    A young woman traveling the Oregon Trail in 1841 must rely on a stranger to bring her to safety. After losing her father along the trail to Oregon Country, Samantha Waldron and her young brother, Daniel, must overcome tremendous challenges to rea...

  • The Courier of Caswell Hall

    An American Tapestry

    An unlikely spy discovers freedom and love in the midst of the American Revolution. As the British and Continental armies wage war in 1781, the daughter of a wealthy Virginia plantation owner feels conflict raging in her own heart. Lydia Caswell ...

  • Chateau of Secrets

    A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family’s abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could...

  • The Reluctant Runaway

    in The Westward Christmas Brides Collection

  • Beckoned Hearts

    in The Oregon Trail Romance Collection

    Nine romantic adventures take readers along for a ride on the Oregon Trail where daily challenges force travelers to evaluate the things that are most precious to them-including love. Enjoy the trip through a fascinating part of history through the e...

  • Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor

    When Heather Toulson returns to her parents’ cottage in the English countryside, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about her family history and stumbles onto the truth about a sixty-year-old murder. Libby, a free spirit who can’t be tamed by he...

  • Treasure of the Heart

    in A Plain and Sweet Christmas Romance Collection

    Enjoy a simple Christmas, sweetened by love, in historical communities of plain faith people. Four romances develop among the Ohio River Valley Quakers of the mid-1800s. Two Mennonite couples face influences from outside their old traditions. Two Ami...

  • Beneath a Golden Veil

    As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides under the Golden Hotel. It’s 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the...

  • Catching the Wind

    What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to Engl...

  • Enchanted Isle

    In the spring of 1958, Jenny Winter embarks on a two-month adventure to one of the most enchanting places on earth, a quaint village in England’s magical Lake District. With a new camera and an eye for capturing the beauty others miss, she can’t ...



  • Hidden Among the Stars

    From the award-winning author of Catching the Wind, which Publishers Weekly called “unforgettable” and a “must-read,” comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own e...

  • Memories of Glass

    Reminiscent of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, this stunning novel draws from true accounts to shine a light on a period of Holland’s darkest history and bravest heroes. 1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friend...

  • The Curator's Daughter

    A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of World War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and--decades later--a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologi...

  • River of Lights

    A colorful fairy world hidden below Paris. A girl determined to solve the mystery of lights. An ancient prophecy that could save the entire land. River of Lights transports readers into the magical Land of Light and on a remarkable journey to rescue ...

  • The Winter Rose

    In this gripping WWII time-slip novel, Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and siste...

  • The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

    In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family's castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Popp...

  • Going for Broke

    • / Christian
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    Leia Carlisle can't tell anyone her secret.

    After a debilitating ski injury, Leia loses her job as an airline pilot and turns to gambling for its empowering adrenaline rush. But the more she gambles, the more Leia thrives on the rush of eup...

Award-Winning Books by Melanie Dobson

The Black Cloister
2008 IndieFab Award -- Religious Fiction
Catching the Wind
2018 Carol Award -- Historical
Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa
2011 Carol Award -- Historical Romance
Memories of Glass
2020 Carol Award -- Historical
The Silent Order
2011 Carol Award -- Romantic Suspense


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Melanie Dobson has published 26 books.

Melanie Dobson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wings of Poppy Pendleton, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Melanie Dobson, Together for Good, was published in July 2006.

No. Melanie Dobson does not write books in series.
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