Heartwarming Pioneer Romance Fiction

For those of us who enjoy the comforting reads like Janette Oke's Love Come Softly series.

Updated October 27, 2023
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Braced for Love Brothers in Arms Series, Book 1
Connealy, Mary.
Ebook
Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half brother he never knew existed. Turns out, Kevin's supposedly dead father led a secret...
A Bride in the Bargain
Gist, Deeanne.
Ebook
In 1860s Seattle, a man with a wife could secure himself 640 acres of timberland. But because of his wife's untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself about to lose half of his claim. Still in mourning, his best solution is to buy one of those Mercer girls arriving from the East. A woman he'll marry...
Caught in the Middle Ladies of Caldwell County Series, Book 3
Jennings, Regina.
Paper Book
She Wants the Freedom of the Open Plains. He Wants the Prestige of a Successful Career. Neither is Ready for What Comes Instead. The train to Garber, Texas, is supposed to bring life's next victory to Nicholas Lovelace. Instead, it gets held up by robbers who are thwarted...
Courting misfortune
Jennings, Regina
Paper Book
Calista York needs one more successful case as a Pinkerton operative to secure her job. When she's assigned to find the kidnapped daughter of a mob boss, she's sent to the rowdy mining town of Joplin, Missouri, despite having extended family in the area. Will their meddling expose her mission and...
Courting misfortune
Jennings, Regina
Paper Book
Calista York needs one more successful case as a Pinkerton operative to secure her job. When she's assigned to find the kidnapped daughter of a mob boss, she's sent to the rowdy mining town of Joplin, Missouri, despite having extended family in the area. Will their meddling expose her mission and...
Engaging deception
Jennings, Regina
Paper Book
A lively competition draws her into her rival's blueprints--and maybe even his heart.Olive Kentworth has spent her life hiding her interest in architecture, even though she pores over architectural books and sketches buildings. When she accepts a job on a home expansion, it's only because her...
For the record
Jennings, Regina
Audiobook
Rather Than Wait for a Hero, She Decided to Create One Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea...
Forged in love
Connealy, Mary
Paper Book
When sparks begin to fly, can a friendship cast in iron be shaped into something more?Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she's riding in, killing both her father and brother. As she takes over her father's blacksmith shop and tries to...
Inventions of the heart
Connealy, Mary
Ebook
Her heart seeks safety. But will trouble find her even here?After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no...
Land of my heart
Peterson, Tracie.
Audiobook
Best-selling author of A Slender Thread (K0006), Tracie Peterson is beloved for her inspirational historical fiction. Land of My Heart, which takes place in the late 1800s, begins her new Heirs of Montana series. After the death of her father, 16-year-old Dianne Chadwick believes her family's only...
Love comes softly
Oke, Janette
Audiobook
A Compelling Love Story Set in the "Little House on the Prairie" Era She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world had crumbled around her ... Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish...
The measure of a lady
Gist, Deeanne.
Ebook
Rachel van Buren is on a whirlwind tour of the west in this humorous historical romance. Can she unhook her endangered heart or will she leave it in San Francisco?
The Measure of a Lady A Novel
Gist, Deeanne.
Ebook
Rachel van Buren is on a whirlwind tour of the west in this humorous historical romance. Can she unhook her endangered heart or will she leave it in San Francisco?
More than meets the eye
Witemeyer, Karen
Paper Book
Many consider Evangeline Hamilton cursed. Orphaned at a young age and possessing a pair of mismatched eyes--one bright blue, the other dark brown--Eva has fought to find her way in a world that constantly rejects her. Yet the support of even one person can help overcome the world's judgments, and...
A most inconvenient marriage
Jennings, Regina
Paper Book
Abigail Stuart Thought She was Jeremiah Calhoun's Widow. But Jeremiah Calhoun Is Very Handsome, Very Alive, and Very Perplexed. Most Inconvenient Indeed. With few options of her own, nurse Abigail Stuart agrees to marry her patient, a gravely wounded soldier calling himself...
Out of Control Kincaid Brides Series, Book 1
Connealy, Mary.
Ebook
Julia Gilliland has always been interested in the natural world around her. She particularly enjoys her outings to the cavern near her father's homestead, where she explores for fossils and formations, and plans to write a book about her discoveries. The cave seems plenty safe--until the day a...
Proposing mischief
Jennings, Regina
Ebook
Only one person can give her the freedom she seeks--but is it worth the risk?Maisie Kentworth is being forced to stay on her parents' ranch. After a short-lived relationship with the wrong man, she's worried about inflaming things further between her former beau and her protective family....
Proposing Mischief The Joplin Chronicles Series, Book 2
Jennings, Regina.
Ebook
Only one person can give her the freedom she seeks--but is it worth the risk?Maisie Kentworth is being forced to stay on her parents' ranch. After a short-lived relationship with the wrong man, she's worried about inflaming things further between her former beau and her protective family....
Redeeming Love A Novel
Rivers, Francine
Audiobook
Venture deeper into the Heart of Redeeming Love with this one-of-a-kind study. Through the beloved bestselling novel Redeeming Love, millions of readers have experienced the captivating love story of Angel and Michael Hosea that illustrates God's power to redeem even the...
Serving Up Love A Four-in-One Harvey House Brides Collection
Peterson, Tracie.
Ebook
Bestselling novelist Tracie Peterson joins Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, and Jen Turano in this collection of four novellas, each featuring a Harvey Girl heroine. From Kansas to Texas, the Grand Canyon to New Mexico, the stories cross the country with tales of sweet romance and entertaining...
Tiffany girl : a novel
Gist, Deeanne.
Ebook
From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive "New Woman"--the girl behind Tiffany's chapel--and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair set Chicago and...
When calls the heart
Oke, Janette
Ebook
Nothing in her cultured East Coast upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. Yet, despite the constant hardships, she loves the children in her care. Determined to do the best job she can and fighting to survive the harsh land, Elizabeth is surprised to find her...
With this pledge
Alexander, Tamera
Paper Book
From the pages of history and the personal accounts of those who endured the Battle of Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves real-life love letters into a story of unlikely romance first kindled amid the shadows of the Civil War. "Beautifully-drawn characters and rich history in...
A worthy pursuit
Witemeyer, Karen.
Audiobook
A teacher on the run. A bounty hunter in pursuit. Can two enemies learn to trust each other before they both lose what they hold most dear? Stone Hammond is the best tracker in Texas. He never comes home empty-handed. So when a wealthy railroad investor hires him to find his abducted granddaughter,...

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