Winnie Griggs

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2001
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Hope's Haven

1 - Her Amish Wedding Quilt (Dec-2020)
2 - Her Amish Springtime Miracle (May-2022)
3 - Her Amish Patchwork Family (May-2023)

Knotty Pine

1 - The Christmas Journey (Oct-2009)
2 - The Proper Wife (Mar-2011)
3 - Second Chance Family (Jul-2011)

Sweetbrier Creek

1 - An Amish Christmas Match (Sep-2024)
2 - An Amish Widow's Promise (May-2025)

Texas Grooms

1 - Handpicked Husband (Sep-2012)
2 - The Bride Next Door (Jun-2013)
3 - Family for Christmas (Oct-2013)
4 - Lone Star Heiress (Jun-2014)
5 - Her Holiday Family (Nov-2014)
6 - Second Chance Hero (May-2015)
7 - The Holiday Courtship (Dec-2015)
8 - Texas Cinderella (Sep-2016)
9 - A Tailor-Made Husband (Jun-2017)
10 - Once Upon a Texas Christmas (Dec-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

Bachelors and Babies (Firehouse)

6 - Sawyer (Nov-2019)

A Cowboy for Every Mood

4 - Second Chance Family (Jul-2011)

Irish Brides

A Baby Between Them (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • What Matters Most

    Reed Wilder journeys to Far Enough, Texas, in search of a fallen woman. He finds an angel. Barely reaching five feet two inches, the petite brunette helps to defend him against two ruffians and then treats his wounds with a gentleness that makes him ...

  • Something More

    Elthia Sinclare travels to Texas to become a governess. She arrives to find six children, not two; a man who had ordered a bride, not a teacher; and a household that needs someone to cook and clean, not read Latin. But worse than marrying Caleb Tanne...

  • Whatever It Takes

    FLIRTING WITH PERFECTION To adopt the little girl she'd come to love, Maddy Potter needed a fiance, not a husband. Luckily, she'd found the ideal beau for her purpose: Clayton Kincaid had agreed to court her, propose marriage, and then lea...

  • A Will of Her Own

    Will Trevaron had made a life of his own, the way he wanted it. He didn't want to return to his stuffy, judgmental family -- to a past he'd rather forget. But when he inherited the title Marquess, his grandfather demanded he leave his beloved...

  • Lady's Choice

    A TRUE DILEMMA Her preference? What a joke! She didn't want any of them. Regina Nash's grandfather had sent a trio of men to Texas, along with a contract; and if she didn't sign, agreeing to marry one of them, she risked losing custody...

  • The Hand-Me-Down Family

    Love Inspired Historical - 28

    From Spinster to Wife...in One Week Callie Gray always assumed she would never marry, until she took a leap and became a mail-order bride. But when she arrives in Sweetgum, Texas, she gets the shock of her life. Her husband is dead, and his brother ...

  • The Christmas Journey

    Knotty Pine - 1
    Love Inspired Historical - 42

    The Man of Her Dreams Philadelphia lawyer Ryland Lassiter is everything Josephine Wylie wants -- for a brother-in-law! As the sole supporter of her family, Josie's plans for herself have always had to wait. But Ryland will be ideal as the new head...

  • The Heart's Song

    Love Inspired - 570
    Love Inspired Large Print - 570

    Widower Graham Lockwood hasn't stepped foot in church since he lost his family. So he can't possibly say yes to his new neighbor's request that he lead the handbell choir. But widowed mother Reeny Landry is so hopeful -- and her fatherless children s...

  • The Proper Wife

    Knotty Pine - 2
    Love Inspired Historical - 81

    Sensible, Settled, Steady... And not Sadie Lassiter. Eli Reynolds knows what he wants in a wife, and the flighty Texas girl couldn't be further from the mark. Eli has his nine-year-old sister's welfare to consider -- Penny deserves a mother who wi...



  • Second Chance Family

    Knotty Pine - 3
    A Cowboy for Every Mood - 4
    Love Inspired Historical - 97

    Mitch Hammond is a man of his word. And as far as Cora Beth Collins is concerned, that's a problem. The stubborn sheriff has vowed never to love again, for fear of wounding someone else. The most he can offer Cora Beth is marriage in name only. And w...

  • Once Upon a Thanksgiving: Home for Thanksgiving

    Love Inspired Historical - 109

    All that stands between Ruby Anne Tuggle and a fresh start is an escort to Tyler, Texas. Rancher Griff Lassiter is too kind to refuse, but too wary of being hurt again to offer anything but friendship. Then a fever forces an unexpected detour and a c...

  • A Baby Between Them

    Irish Brides
    Love Inspired Historical - 139

    For two months, Nora Murphy has cared for the abandoned infant she found on their Boston-bound ship. Settled now in Faith Glen, Nora tells herself she's happy. She has little Grace, and a good job as housekeeper to Sheriff Cameron Long. She doesn't n...

  • Handpicked Husband

    Texas Grooms - 1
    Love Inspired Historical - 151

    Free-spirited photographer Regina Nash is ready to try. But unless she marries one of the gentlemen her grandfather has sent for her inspection, she'll lose custody of her nephew. So she must persuade them -- and Adam Barr, her grandfather's envoy --...

  • The Bride Next Door

    Texas Grooms - 2
    Love Inspired Historical - 187

    Love Thy Neighbor? After years of wandering, Daisy Johnson hopes to settle in Turnabout, Texas, open a restaurant, perhaps find a husband. Of course, she'd envisioned a man who actually likes her. Not someone who offers a marriage of convenience ...

  • Family for Christmas

    Texas Grooms - 3
    Love Inspired Historical - 203

    An Unexpected Gift Eve Pickering knows what it's like to be judged for your past. So she's not about to leave the orphaned boy she's befriended alone in this unfamiliar Texas town. Since Chance Dawson's offer of shelter is the only way to look af...

  • Lone Star Heiress

    Texas Grooms - 4
    Love Inspired Historical - 235

    Rescuer Turned Husband? Plucky Ivy Feagan is headed to Turnabout, Texas, to claim an inheritance, not a widower's heart. That all changes when strapping schoolteacher Mitch Parker rescues her in the wilderness. Straightlaced Mitch has never met a ...

  • Her Holiday Family

    Texas Grooms - 5
    Love Inspired Historical - 255

    THE CHRISTMAS CHILDREN Reserved widow Eileen Pierce never considered herself the kind of woman who was cut out to be a mother. She wouldn't know what to do with one child, much less ten. But when handyman Simon Tucker is stranded in town with a g...

  • Second Chance Hero

    Texas Grooms - 6
    Love Inspired Historical - 280

    Winning the Widow's Heart To help his dying sister, Nate Cooper once broke the law -- and he's regretted it ever since. Now the ex-con turned saddler hopes for a new beginning in Turnabout, Texas. So when Nate saves a young widow's daughter from ...

  • The Road Home

    in Journeys of the Heart

    From award-winning author Winnie Griggs comes an endearing Americana romance (part of the Journeys of the Heart anthology):Unable to operate since a devastating accident, surgeon Wyatt Murdoch is left wondering what to do with his life. He reluctantl...



  • The Holiday Courtship

    Texas Grooms - 7
    Love Inspired Historical - 308

    A Wife by Christmas As Christmas approaches, Hank Chandler is determined to find a wife to mother his sister's orphaned children. When schoolteacher Janell Whitman offers to help him with his niece and nephew, she seems to be the perfect match --...

  • A Matter of Trust

    Award-winning author Winnie Griggs invites you to discover lasting love… (Formerly published as “What Matters Most”). Texas, 1892 -- When Lucy Ames rescues a stranger from being beaten and robbed, she can’t just leave the man to die. But with...

  • Texas Cinderella

    Texas Grooms - 8
    Love Inspired Historical - 344

    In Search of a Groom After a life of drudgery on her family's farm, Cassie Lynn Vickers relishes her freedom working in town as a paid companion for feisty Mrs. Flanagan. When her father suddenly demands she come home, she has no choice. Unless s...

  • A Tailor-Made Husband

    Texas Grooms - 9
    Love Inspired Historical - 380

    From Bachelor Sheriff to Family Man Tired of pining for handsome sheriff Ward Gleason, seamstress Hazel Andrews plans to head East for a fresh start -- until Ward finds an abandoned child. Hazel can't turn down his request that she watch the litt...

  • Once Upon a Texas Christmas

    Texas Grooms - 10
    Love Inspired Historical - 404

    Partners for the Holidays Abigail Fulton is determined to find independence in Turnabout, Texas -- and becoming manager of the local hotel could be the solution. But first, she must work with Seth Reynolds to renovate the property by Christmas --...

  • Sawyer

    Bachelors and Babies (Firehouse) - 6

    Sawyer Flynn vows to see that the man who murdered his brother pays for his crimes, but becoming the sole caretaker of an orphaned infant sidetracks him from the mission. Sawyer can’t do it all -- run his mercantile, care for the baby, and find jus...

  • Her Amish Wedding Quilt

    Hope's Haven - 1

    An Amish seamstress and a single father have a chance to make a fresh start in this heartwarming first novel of a new series. Spirited, forthright, impulsive -- everyone told Greta Eicher she'd have to change her ways if she ever hoped to marr...

  • Her Amish Springtime Miracle

    Hope's Haven - 2

    In this delightful and heartwarming novel, an orphaned baby brings together an unlikely couple who learn the true meaning of family. When Hannah Eicher discovered sweet baby Grace in her barn last spring, the adorable infant seemed like the answer...

  • Her Amish Patchwork Family

    Hope's Haven - 3

    In this heartwarming Amish romance, a former schoolteacher and a single father discover a second chance at friendship, family, and love -- perfect for fans of Laura V. Hilton and Marta Perry. Former Hope’s Haven schoolteacher, Martha Eicher, has al...

  • An Amish Christmas Match

    Sweetbrier Creek - 1

    Can one Amish woman give a struggling widower with five rowdy boys a helping hand -- and chance at love -- this Christmas season?   Phoebe Kropf knows everyone thinks she’s a bit odd -- and more than a little accident-prone. She doesn’t unde...



  • An Amish Widow's Promise

    Sweetbrier Creek - 2

    The second book in a trilogy of light, warmhearted Amish romance perfect for fans of Jo Ann Brown and Jocelyn McClay....

Award-Winning Books by Winnie Griggs

Handpicked Husband
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Love Inspired Historical


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Winnie Griggs has published 30 books.

The next book by Winnie Griggs, An Amish Widow's Promise, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Winnie Griggs, What Matters Most, was published in February 2001.

Yes. Winnie Griggs has 4 series.
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