Sharlene MacLaren

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2002
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Daughters of Jacob Kane

1 - Hannah Grace (Jan-2009)
2 - Abbie Ann (Apr-2010)

Forever Freedom

1 - Summer on Sunset Ridge (Jan-2017)
2 - Their Daring Hearts (Jan-2018)
3 - A Love to Behold (Jan-2019)

Hearts of Honor

1 - Her Rebel Heart (Feb-2020)
2 - Her Steadfast Heart (Feb-2021)
3 - Her Guarded Heart (Mar-2022)

Little Hickman Creek

1 - Loving Liza Jane (Apr-2007)
2 - Sarah My Beloved (Oct-2007)
3 - Courting Emma (Apr-2008)
3.5 - Christmas Comes to Little Hickman Creek (Sep-2014)

River of Hope

1 - Livvie's Song (Dec-2010)
2 - Ellie's Haven (Mar-2012)
3 - Sofia's Secret (Oct-2012)

Tennessee Dreams

1 - Heart of Mercy (Jan-2014)
2 - Threads of Joy (Aug-2014)
3 - Gift of Grace (Feb-2015)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Spring's Promise

    Michigan-born twin brothers launch a ski trip to the Rockies in mid-January. But elation turns to despair when one of the twin brothers is tragically killed on the slopes. In an attempt to appease his guilt and grief, Jake Evans, the living twin, set...

  • Through Every Storm

    Struggling through the tragic loss of their child, Maddie and Jeff Bowman experience the immense pain and grief caused by a broken heart and a marriage so severely strained that a divorce seems imminent. Will life ever be normal again? While still ov...

  • Loving Liza Jane

    Little Hickman Creek - 1

    When Liza Jane Merriwether rode into the town of Little Hickman Creek, her first thought was, "Oh, Lord, what have I done?" Kentucky was much different than what she was used to back East, but she knew God had led her here for a reason. Soon, the new...

  • Sarah My Beloved

    Little Hickman Creek - 2

    Sarah Woodward has come to Kentucky as a mailâ€"order bride. But when she steps off the stage coach, the man who contacted her through the Marriage Made in Heaven Agency informs her that he has fallen in love with and wed another woman. Sarah is disa...

  • Courting Emma

    Little Hickman Creek - 3

    A Divine Plan Twenty-eight-year-old Emma has built a barricade around her heart to survive the pain of growing up with her alcoholic father, Ezra. As she runs Emma's Boardinghouse, she plays host to an array of unkempt, earthy characters while tryin...

  • Long Journey Home

    After divorcing her abusive husband, single mother Callie May is still nursing the scars of a
    painful past. The last thing she needs in her life is another man, so she’s less than thrilled
    when a handsome but brooding stranger moves into th...

  • Maggie Rose

    A Compelling Reason Maggie Rose, the spunky and friendly twenty-year-old middle daughter of Michigan resident Jacob Kane, feels compelled to leave her beloved hometown of Sandy Shores to pursue what she feels in her heart are God's plans for her life...

  • Hannah Grace

    Daughters of Jacob Kane - 1

    Growing up in the west Michigan resort town of Sandy Shores in the early 1900s, Hannah Grace, the eldest of Jacob Kane's three daughters, is feisty and strongâ€"willed, yet practical. Between working at her father's general store and courting the tow...

  • Tender Vow

    Michiganâ€"born brothers John and Jason Evans took a ski trip in the Rockies, but only one came home aliveâ€"John was tragically killed on a daring descent down Devil's Run, an infamously dangerous slope.

    In an attempt to soothe his guilt an...



  • Abbie Ann

    Daughters of Jacob Kane - 2

    Abbie Ann Kane, the youngest of Jacob Kane's three daughters, is a busy woman. Between running the Whatnot, the family's general store, being active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and assisting the elderly citizens of Sandy Shores, Michig...

  • Livvie's Song

    River of Hope - 1

    Life is far from a breeze for Olivia Beckman, owner of Livvie’s Kitchen, a favorite of locals in Wabash, Indiana. The widowed mother of two is struggling to make ends meet -- no simple feat, especially when her cook turns in his resignation. Yet sh...

  • Ellie's Haven

    River of Hope - 2

    Ellie Booth was never the type to run away. But she's witnessed her stepfather commit a heartless crime, and, knowing he'll stop at nothing to keep her quiet, she has no choice but to flee. Soon, she finds herself in Wabash, Indiana, scrambling for a...

  • Sofia's Secret

    River of Hope - 3

    Ever since her parents died in a tragic train wreck, Sofia Rogers has worked a job, managed a household, and brought up her little brother, Andy -- all on her own, because she prizes her independence. But that’s not to say it’s been an easy road....

  • Heart of Mercy

    Tennessee Dreams - 1

    Twenty-six-year-old MERCY EVANS has spent a good share of her life fending for herself, her mother having passed away when she was nine, and her father getting himself killed in a heated argument when she was only 15. Not quite old enough to be consi...

  • Threads of Joy

    Tennessee Dreams - 2

    JOY WESTFALL, a divorced woman who runs a tailoring business out of her little home and has a 4-year-old daughter knows first hand the bitterness of rejection. Her talent with a needle supersedes her tainted reputation, however, and she has no troubl...

  • Christmas Comes to Little Hickman Creek

    Little Hickman Creek - 3.5

    Sadie Bennett, a 26-year-old widow, lost her husband to a tragic accident at Grady's Sawmill in Little Hickman, Kentucky after only a month of marriage. Determined to carve out a life for herself despite her deep sense of loss, she takes a job as a w...

  • Gift of Grace

    Tennessee Dreams - 3

    It was a leap of faith for Grace Fontaine to bid farewell to her beloved fianacé, Jess Quinn, and send him on a four-month stint on the transatlantic luxury liner the Lone Star. But the trip from Boston to London and back again would increase his sa...

  • Summer on Sunset Ridge

    Forever Freedom - 1

    Brought up on a Quaker farm near Philadelphia at the brink of the Civil War, plainspoken Rebecca Albright is expected to be charitable, peace-loving, and submissive. However, those traits don't always come naturally to the feisty abolitionist. Spirit...

  • Their Daring Hearts

    Forever Freedom - 2

    Levi Albright rebelled against his Quaker roots to fight for abolition in the Union army in the first year of the Civil War. Two years later, 19-year-old destitute orphan Josephine Winters, with chopped hair, boy’s clothes, and new name, “Snipp,â...



  • A Love to Behold

    Forever Freedom - 3

    Two years after the Civil War, Lydia Albright, 27, is an established teacher in Boston when she senses God’s call to leave the comfort and security of her job and go south. She accepts a position to teach in a school for former slaves in Charleston...

  • Her Rebel Heart

    Hearts of Honor - 1

    Cristina Stiles is left to fend for herself and her two young children while her husband goes off to fight in the Confederate army. She also has to deal with two rogue Yankee soldiers who’ve beaten her, stolen her food, and keep coming back to caus...

  • Her Steadfast Heart

    Hearts of Honor - 2

    Widower Joey Fuller fights for the Union, leaving his four rambunctious children with nannies…who keep quitting. Joey’s solution? Advertise for a temporary wife to take care of his family until he musters out. Faith Haviland is desperate...

  • Her Guarded Heart

    Hearts of Honor - 3

    At age twenty-one, Anna Hansen has had more than her share of hardship. Her mother died when she was eleven and her father just passed away under mysterious circumstances, leaving her to care for her ten-year-old brother, Billy Ray. She struggles to ...

  • The Mercy Tree

    It’s 1955, when scandalous affairs are never talked about, divorce is rare, a wife is a “homemaker” more often than not, and every Christian home displays its family Bible front and center. Certainly, a well-respected pastor in the ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sharlene MacLaren has published 24 books.

Sharlene MacLaren does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mercy Tree, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Sharlene MacLaren, Spring's Promise, was published in November 2002.

Yes. Sharlene MacLaren has 6 series.
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