Kimberley Woodhouse

Kimberley Woodhouse is an American bestselling and award-winning author whose work spans Christian historical fiction, historical romance, contemporary suspense and nonfiction. She is particularly known for combining carefully researched settings with romance, mystery, adventure and themes of faith, forgiveness and personal resilience. Woodhouse has written nearly fifty books, both independently and in collaboration with writers including Tracie Peterson and her daughter Kayla R. Woodhouse, and she also works as a writing teacher and speaker.

Her historical novels include The Mayflower Bride, The Patriot Bride, The Golden Bride and The Express Bride from the multi-author Daughters of the Mayflower series. With Tracie Peterson, she wrote the Heart of Alaska trilogy—In the Shadow of Denali, Out of the Ashes and Under the Midnight Sun—the Treasures of Nome trilogy—Forever Hidden, Endless Mercy and Ever Constant—and the Jewels of Kalispell novels The Heart’s Choice, With Each Tomorrow and An Unexpected Grace. Her other historical fiction includes the Secrets of the Canyon trilogy, beginning with A Deep Divide; the palaeontology-centred Treasures of the Earth trilogy, beginning with The Secrets Beneath; and the individual novels All Things Hidden, Beyond the Silence, Bridge of Gold and A Song in the Dark, the last of which follows a blind concert pianist undertaking dangerous work in Europe shortly before the Second World War.

Periods and events

Progressive Era America, 1890–1920 War of 1812 Roaring Twenties American Civil War California Gold Rush Old West and Frontier America Great Depression Appeasement and the Road to War Nazi Germany Gilded Age America American Revolutionary Era

Series

Series by Kimberley Woodhouse (6 series)

The Heart of Alaska in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.4

The Heart of Alaska is set around the Curry Hotel and the developing Alaska Railroad in the 1920s, when rail travel and national-park tourism were opening the country around Denali to increasing numbers of visitors. The interconnected novels follow hotel staff, guides, naturalists and travellers whose arrival at…

In the Shadow of Denali

4.3

Out of the Ashes

4.5

Under the Midnight Sun

4.7

Doors to the Past in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 12 books 4.4

Doors to the Past is a multi-author dual-timeline series in which present-day characters investigate mysteries attached to historic American buildings, objects and landmarks. Letters, journals, hidden rooms, human remains, artworks and family stories connect modern romances with unresolved events from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The books…

The Chisholm Trail Bride

4.5

Secrets of the Canyon in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.5

Secrets of the Canyon follows three women working at the El Tovar Hotel on the rim of the Grand Canyon during the early years of twentieth-century tourism. Emma Grace, Julia and Ruth each seek a new beginning while the hotel’s wealthy guests, demanding work and isolated setting expose…

A Deep Divide

4.4

A Gem of Truth

4.5

A Mark of Grace

4.5

The Treasures of Nome in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.5

The Treasures of Nome follows the Powell sisters on their family dairy outside Nome, Alaska, after the height of the gold rush. Beginning in 1904, the trilogy traces Havyn, Madysen and Whitney as music, farm work, sled dogs, illness and long-hidden family secrets shape their attempts to preserve…

Forever Hidden

4.4

Endless Mercy

4.5

Ever Constant

4.5

Treasures of the Earth in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.3

Treasures of the Earth is a historical-romance series about women seeking a place in the male-dominated world of American palaeontology. The first two books unfold during the competitive Bone Wars, when rival dig teams raced to discover, classify and display dinosaur skeletons; the final novel moves to Dinosaur…