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Jody Hedlund

1969

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Jody Hedlund is an American bestselling author of Christian historical romance, known for combining carefully researched settings with faith, family conflict and emotionally intense love stories. Based in central Michigan, she is the mother of five children and has written more than sixty books. Many of her novels are inspired by real people, social movements and little-known episodes of history, with particular attention to women confronting poverty, migration, dangerous journeys and restrictive social expectations. Her work ranges from conventional historical romance to medieval adventure, western romance and time-travel fiction.

Her early Hearts of Faith novels include The Preacher’s Bride, inspired by John and Elizabeth Bunyan, The Doctor’s Lady, based on missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and Rebellious Heart. She has written the Michigan Brides collection, the lighthouse-centred Beacons of Hope series, the Orphan Train trilogy and the Bride Ships novels about women sent from Britain to colonial Canada. Other series include A Shanahan Match, Bride Ships: New Voyages, Colorado Cowboys, Colorado Cowgirls, High Country Ranch and Noble Ranch. Hedlund has also fictionalised the relationships of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora in Luther and Katharina and John Newton and Polly Catlett in Newton and Polly, while her Noble Knights, Lost Princesses, Fairest Maidens and Knights of Brethren series bring romance and adventure to imagined medieval settings.

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Jody Hedlund (9 series)

Orphan Train in Order

by Jody Hedlund 4 books 4.6(7,078)

The Orphan Train series follows the Neumann sisters and the reformers who work among impoverished immigrants and displaced children in 1850s New York and the Midwest. Beginning with the prequel novella An Awakened Heart, the books trace the Children’s Aid Society’s placing-out work and the opportunities and dangers…

The Bride Ships in Order

by Jody Hedlund 4 books 4.6(3,965)

The Bride Ships series follows women who leave Victorian Britain aboard organised emigrant ships carrying prospective brides to Vancouver Island and British Columbia in the 1860s. Sea voyages, colonial shortages, gold-rush settlements and an epidemic create circumstances in which class assumptions and carefully made plans quickly collapse. Each…

Michigan Brides Collection in Order

by Jody Hedlund 3 books 4.6(2,176)

The Michigan Brides Collection brings together three standalone romances set at different turning points in Michigan history. The books move from the War of 1812 on Mackinac Island to immigrant farming communities and the late nineteenth-century lumber boom, using regional industries and conflicts to create distinct tests of…

High Country Ranch in Order

by Jody Hedlund 5 books 4.6(3,242)

The High Country Ranch series centres on the Oakley family and their neighbours in the Colorado mountains, where ranch work, teaching, trapping, small business and family obligations shape everyday survival. Each romance develops from an existing bond or practical arrangement, including friendship, guardianship, marriage of convenience and the…

Colorado Cowboys in Order

by Jody Hedlund 5 books 4.6(2,533)

The Colorado Cowboys series follows the McQuaid siblings as they build new lives in the mining and ranching country around Fairplay, Colorado, after the Civil War. Mail-order marriage, cattle drives, scientific exploration, law enforcement and the struggle to control land bring each member of the family into danger…

Hearts of Faith in Order

by Jody Hedlund 3 books 4.5(5,415)

The Hearts of Faith collection presents three historical romances inspired by real Christian couples whose private relationships developed amid public conflict. The books move from Restoration England and the Oregon mission movement to pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, placing courtship within arguments about religious liberty, mission, conscience and political resistance. Each…

Waters of Time in Order

by Jody Hedlund 4 books 4.5(1,780)

Waters of Time is a four-book time-crossing romance series in which modern researchers and investigators discover holy water connected with the medieval past. The search for healing carries the characters into England during and after the Peasants’ Revolt, where political violence, disease, imprisonment and contested loyalties make every…

Noble Ranch in Order

by Jody Hedlund 4 books 4.5(1,173)

The Noble Ranch series returns to Colorado’s high country for four linked romances involving the Noble and Berkley families and the people drawn into their ranching community. Broken engagements, mistaken identities, inheritance conditions and threats against women-owned property create marriages that begin under pressure but cannot survive without…

Sisters of Stony Ridge Island in Order

by Jody Hedlund 1 book

The Sisters of Stony Ridge Island series follows four sisters connected to a blueberry farm and close-knit island community in Maine. Family inheritance, local livelihoods and old disputes place personal relationships under public scrutiny, beginning with Marissa Axton’s attempt to secure the farm she has already proved capable…

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Standalone historical fiction by Jody Hedlund (2 books)

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