Dorothy Garlock Books In Order

Wild Sweet Wilderness

Berry Warfield is only 18 when she leaves the wagon train to find her father’s claim in Missouri, vowing to let no one stop her from earning her fortune.

Annie Lash

After the death of her parents, Annie Lash yearned for a man she could give her love to completely. Then a young frontiersman offered her a chance to escape her childhood home. When Annie arrives on the frontier, she discovers hostile Indians, river bandits, and a hidden passion that grows as the strong, young man who fought to tame the wild also begins to tame her stubborn heart.

Almost Eden

From the moment Baptiste Lightbody found beautiful Maggie in the Missouri Territory, he knew they were two parts of the same spirit. Shunned by a world that called him a half breed, and her a witch, they brave the wilderness to find a paradise of their own. But Lightfoot and Maggie soon face a test that could break their hearts, or unite them forever.

Restless Wind

Rosalee Spurlock challenges the dangers of the Colorado mountains with her courage, her rifle and her heart. Then one starless night, Logan Horn comes to her cabin door, handsome and powerful, his eyes blazing with desire from the first moment they meet. Rosalee has finally found a man to walk beside her, not behind her.

Wayward Wind

Lorna Lightbody rides like lightning across the Colorado range that is her birthright and fiercest passion. She knows no man can outrace or outfight her, but when she meets Cooper Parnell, she has no weapons against the yearning that makes her trenble like a tree in a storm.

Wind of Promise

Vanessa is determined to cross the prairies, ford the mighty rivers and climb the Rockies to reach Colorado. But her resolve weakens when a tall, lean stranger as wild as the western wind takes her in his arms. Will surrender to this restless roamer bring her happiness or will it break her heart forever.

Lonesome River

From top ranking historical romance writer, Dorothy Garlock, comes the first novel in a new trilogy. This is the romantic saga of a courageous widow who forges the Illinois frontier to make a new life. The author is an expert on the peoneer era, and she uses actual diaries and letters from that time to authenticate her stories.

Dream River

The million copy bestselling author of Wind of Promise and Annie Lash continues her breathtaking Wabash River Trilogy with this second exciting novel set in Arkansas in 1819. Amy Deverell joins Rain Tallman as he blazes new trails across the American frontier and across her heart.

River of Tomorrow

Behind her proper schoolmarm ways, sunny blond Mercy was the same sassy spitfire she had been as a child. An orphan raised by the Quill family with her foster brother Danny, she had always had a quick temper and often needed the loving protection of her big brother. Now she was a woman and running to Danny again. Two Kentucky bounders had ridden into town with a stunning secret about Mercy’s past, one that could separate Mercy and Daniel forever. Surrounded by danger, she would recognize her desperate hunger to have Danny claim her, not as a sister, but as his wife. She knew he would stand by her against a town s cruel whispers and fight against an enemy who wanted her dead. But, if she dared to declare her love, would he respond with his dependable brotherly kindness and break her heart?

Yesteryear

An irresistible tale of love and passion in the post Civil War South from Dorothy Garlock, the award winning, bestselling author of A Gentle Giving and Sins of Summer. Addie waited four long years for her husband to return from the Civil War, but to no avail. Now deserters and drifters are making her life dangerous…
until a mysterious stranger shows up to protect her and her children.

Midnight Blue

Leaving her finishing school behind, Mara Shannon McCall comes back to Wyoming, determined to reclaim the ranch that was her father’s legacy.

Nightrose

Katy knows that she, her sister and her niece are the only people left in this desolate Montana ghost town. Then a stranger rides into the empty main street, bringing a scheme to bring the town back to life, and some personal plans for Katy.

Sweetwater

As stated in a will, well bred, cosmopolitan Virginia Hepperly will earn the rights to a Wyoming Territory ranch if she spends five years teaching Native American children in the territory. Discovering that her two little stepsisters are being mistreated by their guardians, Virginia takes them with her to begin a new life. But after arriving, she finds that there are those who want to destroy her and her future. Features a 16 page insert with 30 frontier recipes and home remedies used by characters in the author’s books. Fiction Romance .

Sins of Summer

A lonely mother and widow living among her mean spirited brothers in an Idaho logging camp meets a rugged but sorrowful frontiersman who promises love and ignites a family feud. By the author of Tenderness. Reprint.

The Listening Sky

In the 1880s, Jane Love comes to Timbertown, Wyoming to escape her heritage and begin a new job and an independent new life. But upon her arrival, she discovers that she and 19 other women were recruited, not to work, but to become wives of lumberjacks. Jane is appalled by the arrangement but agrees to a mock marriage with the town’s owner.

Larkspur

The author of the best seller, The Listening Sky, presents a romance set in the 1880s in Montana, where a young woman struggles to keep the ranch she has inherited with the help of a handsome foreman.

Ribbon in the Sky

Love is put to the ultimate test as spritely Letty Pringle is banished by her cruel father to raise her son on a desolate farm in Nebraska in the early 1900’s.

With Hope

It is 1932, and Henry Ann Henry has just inherited a farm and to rebellious half siblings when her hard working father dies. Tom Dolan, a neighbor in a loveless marriage, offers his skills as a mechanic and farm hand to help her out. Soon the two find themselves falling hopelessly in love, but when Tom’s wife is found dead, Henry Ann must fight to prove his innocence and save their love.

With Song

Kansas, 1934: Molly MacKenzie’s world is shattered when two gangsters rob and kill her parents. Now, Federal Agent Hod Dolan has convinced her to be the bait in a dangerous scheme to catch the murderers. When the ‘Kansas City Star’s’ story reports that Molly can identify the killers, she and Hod wait for the men to return to the scene of the crime to eliminate the witness and an undeniable attraction between Molly and Hod begins to grow.

With Heart

In Oklahoma, 1938, though scarcity and hardship have taken their toll on the spirit of the nation, one young woman still dares to dream. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for investment in a newspaper, but then trouble strikes.

After the Parade

DOROTHY GARLOCK…
is a New York Times extended list bestselling author, ‘a gifted writer’ Chicago Sun Times who celebrates the indomitable American spirit and the triumphs of the caring heart. Now she vividly portrays the era after World War II, when men and women torn apart by years of combat had to rebuild marriages and lives…
Rawlings, Oklahoma, 1945. Johnny Henry is coming home from the Pacific, and his estranged wife, Kathleen, secretly watches him step off the train to a hero’s welcome. Her heart races when she sees him; his breaks when he doesn’t spot her. Misunderstanding and tragedy had destroyed their marriage right before he shipped out. Now Johnny’s pride will keep him from confessing how wrong he had been; now Kathleen’s hurt will stop her from running into his arms. But when a disturbed stalker plunges Kathleen into a real life nightmare, her only hope is Johnny and a love that can bring two hearts through every battle, especially the one within.

The Edge of Town

At 21, Julia Jones is convinced that life is passing her by. Her mother’s death four years ago left her in charge of caring for her father and five siblings, and dashed her hopes of meeting that special someone who would whisk her away to the glamorous big city. Then all at once, Julia’s predictable existence is over turned when her father finds love with an attractive widow, and Evan Johnson, the mysterious son of the town drunkard returns home and starts courting her. With his arrival, however, comes a series of devastating tragedies as Evan’s father is found murdered, and a series of brutal rapes rocks the town. In a rush to judgement, the townsfolk are all pointing to Evan as the guilty party, except for one person. Amid growing tensions, Julie Jones has been hiding a dark personal secret and falling desperately in love.

High on a Hill

From the bestselling author of The Edge of Town comes a novel about the Prohibition era and a young girl who must choose between a bootlegging father and the lawman on his trail. Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle of the night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house in Missouri. Anabel is glad that she was able to finish high school before the move, but has resigned herself to the fact that her fathers bootlegging business has made them nomads and left her with a life of loneliness. So when a young boy named Jack Jones comes to the door, hungry and looking for work, Anabel eagerly invites him in. And Anabels father quickly recruits him for his operation. Meanwhile, Jacks older sister is looking for her runaway brother and begs law officer Corbin Appleby to find him. Corbin does so easily, but he also stumbles across the rumrunnersand Anabel, who attracts him immediately. Whats an honest lawman to do?

A Place Called Rainwater

The small town of Rainwater, Oklahoma, has become a notorious boomtown now that a gusher has flooded its streets with drillers, welders and roustabouts of every description. Jill, a spunky and hard working young woman who runs the hotel for her aunt, is unprepared to cope with the attention she receives from the woman hungry men. Despite her attempts to thwart their advances she finds herself cornered by a group of men on the street one afternoon when Thad Taylor, a young neighbour, comes to her rescue. Believing Jill to be a ‘street flapper’, Thad makes it his duty to curb her wild ways. Jill wants nothing to do with Thad until a woman is murdered in town. Now, Jill’s finally accepted Thad’s protection…
but is she willing to accept more?

River Rising

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Dorothy Garlock weaves a stirring tale of life in the picturesque Depression era town of Fertile, Missouri, and brings back the beloved Jones clan from three of her bestselling novels.

Mother Road

On a hot summer day in 1932, Andy Connors, who owns a garage that serves Route 66, finds himself in major trouble: He’s been bitten by a rabid skunk. Fortunately, Yates, a man whose life Andy had once saved, is stopping by for gas and immediately takes control of the situation. After driving Andy to Oklahoma City for treatments, he returns to manage the garage while Andy recovers. Yates is also there to help Andy’s two daughters and Leona, the woman who tends them and who is the town scandal because she’s not married to Andy. Drawn to this tough and tender woman, Yates is soon defending her against the local residents and her brother, who’s intent on punishing Leona for disgracing him. Caught in the turmoil of gossip and threats, Yates and Leona will find their love tested at every turn especially when her brother is murdered.

Hope’s Highway

The ‘Voice of America’s Heartland’ delivers the second novel in her Depression era trilogy that celebrates the fabled Route 66. Ernie Harding may have stolen Margie Kinnard’s savings, but he doesn’t shatter her dreams of going to California to become a movie star.

Song of the Road

The ‘Voice of America’s Heartland,’ national bestselling author Dorothy Garlock presents the final book in her Route 66, Depression era trilogy. Widowed, pregnant, and penniless, Marilee returns home to Cross Roads, New Mexico, only to find that her father has been dead for six months and that her mother hasn’t been sober since. But Marilee’s determined to make a good life for herself and her baby. Her first order of business: fix up the family’s Wayside 66 Motor Court, now rundown and overrun by outlaws. It’s dangerous with bootlegger Jeb Pierce around; he’d taken charge of the place and wants nothing to change. When his actions become frightening, Marilee finds an unexpected ally in another resident. Hank Sloan was a hell raiser for years but is now making something of himself. Together he and Marilee will face danger in the fight for their newfound dreams.

Stay a Little Longer

In this latest novel from the Voice of America’s Heartland, Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but after her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in childbirth ever again. Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice’s six year old, Charlotte, because the child’s father was lost in World War I. But Louise’s principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family’s main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a stranger ill with influenza, a man who has taken refuge in an old cabin in the woods nearby. Although badly scarred by wounds suffered in the War, he is strong and slowly recovers. When he gradually takes on odd jobs around the house, Louise accepts his help. She is drawn to him despite his disfigurement, and his voice is comforting, yet vaguely familiar.

Keep a Little Secret

The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author follows Charlotte Tucker, the young girl from Garlock’s most recent novel, Stay A Little Longer, into adulthood.

As a child, Charlotte Tucker was raised in small town Minnesota where the only real company was the people who came to her aunt Louise’s boarding house. Several years later, Charlotte is a young woman and thirsty to get out of her hometown and see the world. When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, she jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant’s ranch in Sawyer, a small town to the north, to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them — a man they believe is John Grant. As the summer heats up and a brutal storm wreaks havoc on the town, a secret is revealed that threatens to change Charlotte’s life — and her new friends — forever.

Come a Little Closer

America’s Heartland, 1946. World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime’s bright promise with fresh energy and hope. Newly arrived in a small Wisconsin town, Christina Tucker now dares to chase her long cherished dreams: put her wartime nursing skills to use and reconnect with country life. But helping a shell shocked veteran recover soon tests her determination and disturbs town memories best left buried. She has no choice but to turn to her patient’s seemingly irresponsible brother, Tyler Sutter. A restless ex soldier, Tyler can’t believe this pretty ladylike nurse can heal his family. Yet as Christina begins to understand Tyler’s own fears, the two grow close, then closer still as a terrible secret sparks one man’s violent, vengeful spree. With both the guilty and innocent alike in harm’s way, Tyler and Christina must face all their fears…
or never live to see the future.

Love and Cherish

She was 17 and all alone. Running into the Kentucky wilderness from the family who had attempted to sell her, Cherish Riley knew her enemies were tracking her. She never dreamed that a tall buckskin clad man with a large brown dog would offer his protection and that within hours he would propose marriage.

This Loving Land

After the death of their mother Summer Kuykendall and her brother travel to Texas to live under the protection of Sam McLean, a family friend. They arrive to find that Sam has been killed, but his son Slater will honour his father’s promise.

The Searching Hearts

Tucker Houston is an orphan with no money or prospects just a fierce determination to make her life better. Seeking a job as a teacher on the frontier, she joins a wagon train of mail order brides and meets Lucas Steele, the ruggedly handsome wagon master. Their journey is fraught with the dangers of an untamed land, a savage stranger who wants Tucker for himself, and the promise of deep and lasting love for Tucker and Lucas if they survive.

Glorious Dawn

Out of print for nine years, a classic western romance by the bestselling author of Homeplace and Ribbon in the Sky has been brought back by popular demand. The Macklin ranch seemed to be a refuge for Johanna and her ravaged younger sister until the cruel rancher forces Johanna to marry hisson…
then Johanna faces overwhelming desire for her new husband.

A Love for All Time

Permanently scarred from a car accident, Casey Farrow wonders how a man as handsome as Dan Murdock, the person who pulled her from the wreckage and saved her life, could want a woman with her disfigurement. Reissue.

Forever Victoria

Victoria McKenna is a Western woman tough on the outside, but soft on the inside. When her late father’s cattle ranch on Wyoming’s notorious Outlaw Trail is underhandedly sold to a stranger named Mason Mahaffey, Victoria prepares for a confrontation. But when she faces a handsome cowboy with five orphaned brothers and sisters, it’s clear she’s met her match.

Homeplace

Ana is a stranger to the lonesome Iowa farm where she has gone to live after the death of her stepdaughter. She struggles to raise her late stepdaughter’s child in a farmhouse filled with danger, but soon finds a daring new dream.

A Gentle Giving

After escaping the lynch mob that killed her father, Willa Hammer joins a wagon train and heads west, unaware that she is on the path toward the wilds of the Bighorn Mountains and a hardened cowboy.

Tenderness

Deep in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, Jesse Forbes delivers babies and tends to the sick with a feisty bravery. But her courage may doom rebel Wade Simmer, who’s been branded a troublemaker by the powerful Harper family, and when the whole town blames Wade for a horrible crime, Jesse must prove his innocence and her love.

More Than Memory

‘I owa, 1958. Nelda Hanson, a successful young designer in Chicago, has come home to sell the family farm. Here, just eight years ago, she was a pregnant teenage bride, torn from the arms of her new husband minutes after the ceremony. Nelda wouldn’t see him again, not even after she bore his child. Now suddenly and dangerously Lute Hanson is back in her life. The thin, blue eyed boy with the shy smile has become a rugged and handsome, yet distant and angry man. He’s someone who has reason to hate her. But all Nelda can hate is her own weakness in loving him, as if she could have ever stopped, as if all the hurt over so much time could not return to consume them both…
.’

Train from Marietta

Katherine Tyler’s cross country train trip is unexpectedly derailed when she is kidnapped by an unscrupulous band of outlaws. Her worried father calls out the Texas Rangers, but only a cowboy named T. C. Castle knows the bend of south Texas well enough to catch the ringleader who s responsible. After freeing Katherine, T. C. spirits her away to his remote ranch, where he lives with his 5 year old handicapped daughter Emily. As their attraction blossoms and with the kidnappers closing in, T. C. and Katherine must risk love and limb to save the ranch and a future Katherine never could have imagined back on the Train from Marietta.

On Tall Pine Lake

Nona Conrad has been making it through ‘by the hardest.’ Each day is a struggle – to go on after her parents’ sudden death, to win her rightful inheritance from her untrustworthy half-brother, and to raise her high-spirited younger sister. Hired to manage a fishing camp deep in the Arkansas woods, the strong-willed redhead is eager to settle down – until she clashes with the camp’s new owner. Simon Wright persistently dogs Nora’s steps and is instantly drawn to her. But is he an ally or a charmer with his own agenda? While Nora decides, someone driven by greed will do anything to find out what she knows – and soon Nona and Simon will have nowhere to run.

A Week from Sunday

Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him A Week from Sunday. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately to a new life. Caught in a violent rainstorm, she collides with an oncoming truck. Quinn Baxter, the driver of the truck, demands repayment for his lost cargo. They reach a bargain: she will live in his home, tutor his bedridden younger brother, and play piano in Quinn’s tavern to pay off her debt. Drawn to the rugged Quinn, challenged by the interaction with the tavern patrons, she also must deal with an intractable foe Quinn’s housekeeper who is scheming to become his wife. And all the while, the spurned lawyer is following Adrianna’s trail, determined to find her and force her to marry him.

Leaving Whiskey Bend

The new novel from the Voice of America’s Heartland, Dorothy Garlock.

Two friends, middle-aged Pearl and pretty, young schoolteacher Hallie, have just about decided to leave the rough Western town of Whiskey Bend, where both are disillusioned with the way they have been treated. The final straw comes when they witness their friend Mary being assaulted in the street by her stepbrother Chester and no one steps forward to help her. They decide to leave and take Mary with them. They go out to the shack where Chester and Mary live to get her, but when Chester attacks them, Pearl shoots him in the leg. He screams after the three that he will follow them wherever they go. Desperately they drive away in an open wagon seeking a new life and safety. One night along the way they are caught in a violent storm and Mary nearly drowns in a roiling river. She is saved by a daring young rancher who brings them back to his home to stay until Mary recovers. The rancher has troubles of his own. He is condemned by his mother for having left his father to run the ranch alone years earlier. He is searching for the murderer of his younger brother. And someone now is trying to kill him. Attracted to him and grateful, Hallie vows to help him..

The Moon Looked Down

The new Americana romance from bestselling author Dorothy Garlock, this time set against the backdrop of WWII.

Sophie Heller’s family immigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before WWII began. Now that the war has affected the town, the townspeople discriminate against Sophie and her family. When a train derails, it is an accident but the Heller family is blamed. Coming to Sophie’s rescue is a teacher from the high school, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom.