Brides of Lone Hollow was one of the very first series I ever wrote, and there’s a soft spot in my heart for it that never really goes away — it’s where I first fell in love with writing mail-order bride stories, and it still feels like coming home every time I go back to Lone Hollow.

This is a series where order really does matter — each book centers a new bride, but the town’s storylines and secrets carry through from book to book, so reading out of order will spoil things down the line. Here’s the reading order, start to finish:

Book 1: Her Mail Order Mix-Up — She arrived to marry a man who was already gone. Now she’s face to face with his grieving, guarded brother instead.

Book 2: Her Mail Order Mistake — An orphan searching for her father. A scarred groom who never wanted a bride.

Book 3: Her Mail Order Misunderstanding — She thought she was hired to teach. He thinks she’s trying to steal his job.

Book 4: Her Mail Order Miscalculation — The sheriff expected a prim and proper bride. He got a pistol-packing woman with outlaws for family.

Book 5: Her Mail Order Misconception — A singer fleeing danger loses her memory in a stagecoach wreck. The man who saved her may be her only way home.

Start with Book 1 and work your way through — you’ll want the full story of Lone Hollow and the people in it before the threads connecting these five books start to come together. Let me know in the comments which mix-up, mistake, misunderstanding, miscalculation, or misconception you’re most excited to read.