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Willamette Brides

Willamette Brides follows women in 1870s and 1880s Oregon as legal investigation, medical education and ethnographic work draw them into conflicts over Native communities and state power. Portland’s commercial growth exists beside discriminatory law, reservation poverty and attempts to provoke violence for political gain.

The trilogy combines romance and suspense with a Christian obligation to oppose injustice. Its heroines use professional knowledge and personal courage to expose conspiracies, while learning that missionary intention does not excuse paternalism or the silencing of Native voices.

Reading order

Books in this series (3 books)

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1. Secrets of My Heart

Tracie Peterson

4.5(1,832)

Portland, Oregon, 1879. Nancy Pritchard finds herself a widow with a world of problems when her deceased husband's schemes start to come to light. As she searches through the pieces of her loveless marriage, Nancy realizes there is a lot that she didn't know about this…

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2. The Way of Love

Tracie Peterson

4.7(681)

Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat…

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3. Forever by Your Side

Tracie Peterson

4.7(650)

After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native…