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Kimberley Woodhouse

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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

Alaska Railroad and Denali Tourism1923–1929 CE American Civil War1861–1865 CE American Revolutionary Era1763–1783 CE Appeasement and the Road to War1933–1939 CE California Gold Rush1848–1855 CE French and Indian War1754–1763 CE Gilded Age Americac. 1870–1900 CE Gilded Age Californiac. 1870–1912 CE Grand Canyon Tourism and El Tovar1905–1920 CE Great Depression1929–1939 CE Mayflower Voyage and Plymouth Settlement1620–1621 CE Nazi Germany1933–1945 Nome Gold Rush and Aftermathc. 1898–1910 CE Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE Progressive Era Americac. 1890–1920 CE Roaring Twenties1920–1929 CE Underground Railroadc. 1800–1865 CE War of 18121812–1815 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Kimberley Woodhouse (6 series)

The Treasures of Nome in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.5(7,429)

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…

Secrets of the Canyon in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.5(3,078)

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…

The Heart of Alaska in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.4(9,170)

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…

Daughters of the Mayflower in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 12 books 4.4(5,882)

The Daughters of the Mayflower follows successive generations of one extended American family from the voyage of 1620 to the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Written by several historical-romance authors, the sequence moves through colonial settlement, imperial war, revolution, westward migration, the War of 1812, the Texas…

Doors to the Past in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 12 books 4.4(2,753)

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…

Treasures of the Earth in Order

by Kimberley Woodhouse 3 books 4.3(1,712)

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…

Historical fiction

Standalone historical fiction by Kimberley Woodhouse (3 books)

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