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75 Books (10 Series)

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July 1988

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May 2025

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About the Author

First and foremost, Jodi Thomas is a proud fifth generation Texan, a reason why her books are all set in the state. She has her degree in Family Studies, with her original background in Marriage and Family counseling. In 2002, she was honored by Texas Tech University as a Distinguished Alumni. Her first novel, Beneath the Texas Sky, was published in 1988 and won the National Press Women's Novel of the Year award.

Since then, Thomas has written many books, multiples of which have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today Best Sellers lists. She has won the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA award four times and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2006 after her third win. Her latest novel, Just Down the Road, was number 15 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Thomas is a Writer in Residence at West Texas A & M University. When she isn't writing, she and her husband enjoy traveling.

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Full Series List in Order

A Harmony Novel

1 - Welcome to Harmony (Jun-2010)
2 - Somewhere Along the Way (Nov-2010)
3 - The Comforts of Home (Nov-2011)
4 - Just Down the Road (Apr-2012)
5 - Chance of a Lifetime (Jan-2013)
6 - Can't Stop Believing (Jun-2013)
7 - Betting the Rainbow (Apr-2014)
8 - A Place Called Harmony (Oct-2014)
9 - One True Heart (Apr-2015)
9.5 - Midnight Bet (Jul-2015)

Honey Creek

1 - Breakfast at the Honey Creek Cafe (Jun-2020)
2 - Picnic in Someday Valley (May-2021)
3 - Dinner on Primrose Hill (Nov-2021)
4 - Sunday at the Sunflower Inn (May-2022)

Laurel Springs

1 - Mornings on Main (Apr-2018)
2 - The Little Teashop on Main (May-2019)

The McLains

1 - The Texan's Touch (Jul-1998)
2 - To Kiss a Texan (May-1999)
3 - To Wed in Texas (Feb-2000)
4 - Twilight in Texas (Mar-2001)
5 - The Texan's Dream (Nov-2001)

McQuillen

1 - Texas Love Song (Oct-1996)
2 - Two Texas Hearts (Jul-1997)

Ransom Canyon

0.5 - Winter's Camp (Aug-2015)
0.5 - Silverleaf Rapids (May-2025)
1 - Ransom Canyon (Aug-2015)
2 - Rustler's Moon (Feb-2016)
3 - Lone Heart Pass (May-2016)
4 - Sunrise Crossing (Sep-2016)
5 - Wild Horse Springs (Jan-2017)
6 - Indigo Lake (Jul-2017)
6.5 - A Christmas Affair (Oct-2017)
7 - Mistletoe Miracles (Sep-2018)
8 - Christmas in Winter Valley (Sep-2019)

Someday Valley

1 - Strawberry Lane (Jan-2023)
2 - The Wild Lavender Bookshop (Apr-2024)

Texan

1 - The Texan and the Lady (Jan-1994)
2 - To Tame a Texan's Heart (Dec-1994)

Whispering Mountain

1 - Texas Rain (Nov-2006)
2 - Texas Princess (Nov-2007)
3 - Tall, Dark, and Texan (Nov-2008)
4 - The Lone Texan (Oct-2009)
5 - Texas Blue (Apr-2011)
6 - Wild Texas Rose (Aug-2012)
7 - Promise Me Texas (Nov-2013)

The Wife Lottery

1 - The Texan's Wager (Nov-2002)
2 - When a Texan Gambles (Nov-2003)
3 - A Texan's Luck (Nov-2004)
4 - The Texan's Reward (Nov-2005)

Book List in Order: 75 titles

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  Beneath the Texas Sky
  BITTERSWEET CHOICES The years following the Civil War were difficult ones for Texas...and for beautiful Bethanie Lane. When fate took the man she loved from her, she was forced to choose between her cherished memories of the past and her steely de...

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  Northern Star
  The raging fury of war was ending. But their perilous passion had just begun . . . Hauntingly beautiful Perry McLain was desperate to escape the powerful Union Army captain who pursued her, seeking vengeance for her rebellion. Yet, her vow to ...

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  The Tender Texan
  A SHOCKING PROPOSITION Bold and beautiful, Anna Meyer dared to walk into a campsite full of Texas cattlemen . . . and offer one hundred dollars to the man who'd help her forge a frontier homestead. A RECKLESS AGREEMENT On the brink of manho...

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  Prairie Song
  IN EVERY TOUCH, A FLAME OF BETRAYAL. IN EVERY KISS, A SONG OF LOVE... MAGGIE Texas born and bred, the beautiful Confederate widow inherited a sprawling house of scandalous secrets. But more shocking was her newfound desire for a Union Army soldi...

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  A Heart on His Sleeve
  A Valentine's Day dance sparks an unlikely tryst between a handsome gunslinger and a headstrong lady reporter....

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  In a Heartbeat
  An army fort is no place for a Valentine's Day dance - or so thinks stubborn Colt Barnett. Until a lovely woman turns his head around....

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  Cherish the Dream
  THEY CHERISHED A MOMENT IN TIME WHEN DREAMS TRIUMPHED ON THE WINGS OF LOVE... From childhood through nursing school, Katherine and Sarah were best friends. Now they set out to take all that life had to offer - and were swept up in the rugged, posi...

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  A Husband for Holly
  These heartwarming, all-American stories from five beloved authors capture all the passion, joy, and rich rural tradition of the holiday season across the nation. Patricia Rice spins a dramatic tale of romance lost and found in the bluegrass coun...

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  The Texan and the Lady
  Jennie Munday left her sleepy Iowa home to become a Harvey Girl. On a train bound for Kansas and her exciting new life, she met Austin McCormick, a gruff, abrasive Texas marshal who seemed to be everything she disliked in a man. But when their train ...

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  Shadow's Bend
  A young Chicago woman begins a dreamlike correspondence with a lonely, unseen stranger --- only to find herself swept away by a miraculous love that transcends time and space....

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  To Tame a Texan's Heart
  Half the folks in America loved reading the gunslinging tales of Granite Westwind. But nobody knew the real story behind the legend: Granite Westwind was a woman... She'd grown up wild and free among the Texas Rangers and Harvey girls of the untam...

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  Forever in Texas
  Sanford Colston left his hometown of Saints Roost to hire its school a new teacher - - but instead found himself stuck at the Dallas train station, robbed of the clothes off his back! It was clear to Ford that this thief wasn't your ordinary out...

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  Texas Love Song
  McCall Harrison was looking for a man. Not a man to love and hold, for her heart had died with her husband. What she needed now was a man for her mission. Sloan Alexander was looking for redemption. The war had stolen his hope and pride. But a bea...

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  Two Texas Hearts
  Kora Adams did not believe in curses, but she had known nothing but bad luck all her life. Then, one night, there was a knock on her door. It was a handsome but solemn stranger with a story to tell. Winter McQuillen had inherited a sprawling Te...

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  The Texan's Touch
  Yankee Doctor Adam McLain was captured by Confederate spies to heal their comrade. But when Adam uncovered the bandages he discovered that the man named "Nick" was actually a very lovely woman! Nicole's beauty and bravery quickly struck...

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  To Kiss a Texan
  Wes McLain returned from the Civil War with little money - and less hope. He had even given up on love. Until he saw her...Allie, the blue-eyed girl who had been called a savage, a wild soul - and was a prisoner of what seemed to be a horrible fate. ...

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  To Wed in Texas
  If any town needed guidance on the path to peace it was wild and dangerous Jefferson, Texas. Delivering it was the widowed Reverend Daniel McLain's calling. Unfortunately, Daniel's own serenity is disrupted when his young daughters' nanny...

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  Twilight in Texas
  It was love at first sight. When Wolf Hayward and Molly Donivan gazed into each other's eyes in a crowded train station during the Civil War, they knew they were meant to be--and sealed their commitment with a passionate kiss. He promised to find he...

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  The Texan's Dream
  Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara O'Riley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her. And when she hires on as bookkeeper for a sprawling Texas ranch, she quickly decides that her new employer, Jonathan Catlin, ...

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  The Texan's Wager
  Thrown off a wagon train with two other women and trying to avoid jail for a murder they committed, Bailee Moore agrees to enter a "Wife Lottery"--a ploy concocted by the Cedar Point sheriff to secure wives for the men in the small Texas town...

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  The Widows of Wichita County
  Apart from sharing the same zip code, Randi Howard, Anna Montano, Meredith Allen, Helena Whitworth and Crystal Howard have absolutely nothing in common until a fiery explosion on a west Texas oil rig changes everything. Their husbands are men who...

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  When a Texan Gambles
  It all started when she got thrown off the wagon train. Now, a crook is dead and Sarah Andrews has been raffled off in a "Wife Lottery." That seems bad enough-- until she discovers her new groom with a knife in his back. He just barely surviv...

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  Easy on the Heart
  WANTED MEN They are a symbol of the Old West, from the tops of their ten-gallon hats to the tips of their spurs, and an image that sets women's hearts to quivering. There's nothing like a cowboy to stir a lady's imagination--or to inspire love as ...

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  Finding Mary Blaine
  The morning's newspaper headline leaves Blaine Anderson reeling. Only a few hours ago she'd dragged herself dazed and bleeding from the smoking rubble, but it might as well have been a lifetime ago -- because now the world believes she is dead. B...

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  A Texan's Luck
  Captain Walker Larson received the shock of his life when a beautiful stranger boldly walked into his office--claiming to be his wife. His father may have bought Lacy Larson for him in a wife lottery, but Walker had no desire for a bride--even one as...

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  The Secrets of Rosa Lee
  Everyone assumes Rosa Lee Altman lived a life without passion. But buried secrets are meant to be revealed. And no one is prepared for what they discover beneath Rosa Lee's overgrown roses--or how her legacy will change their lives with love. The ...

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  The Texan's Reward
  Years ago, Texas Ranger Jacob Dalton bailed an orphaned girl named Nell out of trouble more times than he could count. But now the kid he once called "Two Bits" has grown into a beautiful young woman--and is in more trouble than ever before. Woun...

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  Texas Rain
  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas delivers a tender tale of the Old West, a handsome Texas Ranger, and a mysterious woman fleeing a terrible fate. The first in the powerful new Whispering Mountain trilogy... Honest, straightforward, an...

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  Texas Princess
  Hiding out from her fiance in her father's barn, Liberty Mayfield can't deny that she made the biggest mistake of her life when she agreed to marry ruthless Captain Samuel Buchanan. If only she could find a way to stop the wedding without risking her...

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  Amarillo By Morning
  Roots that go deep...men who stand tall...and real women who have what it takes to love and be loved by them. Jodi Thomas, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, teams up with Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace to bring you fou...

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  Twisted Creek
  Bad luck's been biting at Allie Daniels's heels all her life, so when she inherits a tiny rundown cafe in a small Texas lake community she is sure there must be a catch. But Allie brings her grandmother along, and the cafe gives Nana a chance to do w...

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  Tall, Dark, and Texan
  From Jodi Thomas comes the newest novel in the Whispering Mountain series, starring a lone wolf and the woman who is his destiny... Teagen McMurray would ride to hell and back to protect his land. He'd certainly never felt that way about a woman. ...

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  Silent Partner
  In the rough-and-ready Texas Panhandle, the rodeo is where to find a real man. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas teams up with DeWanna Pace, Linda Broday, and Phyliss Miranda to prove that the right kind of love can tame the wildest heart...

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  Rewriting Monday
  On the run from a mistake that ended her career as a big-city reporter, Pepper Malone has come to the peaceful town of Bailee--which she thinks of as Nowhere, West Texas--to pull herself together before moving on. Mike McCulloch took over for his ...

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  The Lone Texan
  She's always been his destiny. Three days after arriving in Galveston, newly widowed Sage McMurray is furious. She'd been gone from Texas long enough to forget what it takes to survive on the frontier, and finds herself taken hostage in a ...

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  Welcome to Harmony
  A PLACE TO BELONG Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but maybe she can borrow someone else's. At least for a little while... At the nursing home where Reagan works, Miss Beve...

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  The Ranger's Angel
  Born to protect and serve, these rugged lawmen are the stuff of Texas legend. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas teams up with Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda and DeWanna Pace to bring you four red-blooded Rangers and the women who tame thei...

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  Somewhere Along the Way
  HIDING OUT IN HARMONY In the two years since she claimed Harmony, Texas, as her home, eighteen-year-old Reagan Truman has found herself drawn to others who have made their way there, too. Gabe Leary, for instance, whose plan to hide out in Harmony i...

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  Texas Blue
  Nothing can hide real love. Jodi Thomas introduces a gambling man who's about to discover that finding love in the Wild West takes both determination and a little luck... Gambling man Lewton Paterson wants to marry into a respectable family...

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  The Outlaw
  Fearless and irresistible, outlaws are the original bad boys. Now New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas and Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace offer up four sexy and romantic stories for women who love men who know how to pack he...

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  One Wish: A Christmas Story
  In the Texas Panhandle, the winters are long, the storms fierce -- and the Yuletide nights are sizzling. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas along with Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda and DeWanna Pace, bring you one tempting holiday delight.....

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  The Comforts of Home
  SHELTER FROM THE STORM In Harmony, Texas, twenty-year-old Reagan Truman has found her place and her family. But with her uncle taken ill and her friend Noah lost and disheartened with his life, Reagan is afraid of ending up alone again -- and she's ...

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  The Valentine's Curse
  In Texas, Valentine's Day is for restless hearts, brave second chances, and passions rekindled. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas, Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace tempt you with four delicious treats... Out on these rug...

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  Just Down the Road
  Harmony, Texas, is a place where dreams are born. As the townspeople face unexpected endings and new beginnings, they also come face to face with themselves -- and what's most important in life... When Tinch Turner lost his wife, he gave up o...

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  Wild Texas Rose
  No one is safe when it comes to love. From the New York Times bestselling Jodi Thomas comes this captivating tale about a headstrong beauty and the Texas Ranger who protects her without her knowledge. Twenty-five-year-old Rose McMurray may be b...

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  Chance of a Lifetime
  Now the New York Times bestselling author takes us back to Harmony, Texas, where big dreams are brewing -- and anything and everything is possible… Emily, the local librarian, has started a writing group, but as the group stumbles through both t...

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  Can't Stop Believing
  A generations-old feud is about to come to a head -- and the stakes couldn’t be higher with two hearts on the line... Cord McDowell gave up his freedom at eighteen when he went to jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now, ten years later, he’...

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  Promise Me Texas
  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas returns to Texas for an unpredictable adventure in romance that sets two unlikely hearts on fire... On a midnight train, four hours away from her wedding, Beth McMurray discovers the devastating truth...

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  Crazy Callie
  Callie Anne Cramer has done a lot of crazy things, but it’ll take one more to prove she isn’t nuts: find a husband, fast! Her only requirement: he has to be taller than she is and swear not to have her committed during their ruse of a marriage....

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  Betting the Rainbow
  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas returns to the town of Harmony, Texas, where life has a way of making better plans than anyone ever imagined... Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney have spent their entire lives on Rainbow Lane, but they d...

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  A Place Called Harmony
  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas has captivated America with her novels set in the small town of Harmony, Texas. Now she tells the story of the three hard-luck men who first settled the town, a place where last chances and long-awaited d...

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  One True Heart
  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes us back to Harmony, Texas -- a small town where love blooms and secrets of the past threaten to alter the future... Millanie McAllen is always logical. But after returning to her childhood home, ...

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  Midnight Bet
  When cousins Rick and Lizzy Matheson of Harmony, Texas, wind up on the wrong side of an attempted shooting, they know they're in deep. Still, the biggest danger is losing their hearts--Rick to an old flame and Lizzy to an old friend she'd nev...

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  Ransom Canyon
  From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes the first book in a compelling, emotionally resonant series set in a remote west Texas town -- where family can be made by blood or by choice Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of...

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  Winter's Camp
  • Aug-2015
  • / Contemporary Romance
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    New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas has captivated readers around the world with her sweeping, heartfelt family sagas. To introduce her brand-new series, Jodi tells the story behind the unforgiving Texas landscape and how one man claims Ran...

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  Rustler's Moon
  On a dirt road marked by haunting secrets, three strangers caught at life's crossroads must decide what to sacrifice to protect their own agendas…and what they're each willing to risk for love. If there's any place that can convince Angela Haro...

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  Lone Heart Pass
  Where family bonds are made and broken, and where young love sparks as old flames grow dim, Ransom Canyon is ready to welcome -- and shelter -- those who need it With a career and a relationship in ruins, Jubilee Hamilton is left reeling from a f...

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  Sunrise Crossing
  Return to peaceful Crossroads, Texas, where community comes first and love thrives in the unlikeliest places… Yancy Grey is slowly putting his life back together after serving time for petty theft. As he rebuilds an old house, he finally has a ...

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  Wild Horse Springs
  In the heart of Ransom Canyon, sometimes the right match for a lonely soul is the one you least expect. Dan Brigman may not lead the most exciting life, but he's proud of what he's achieved: he's a respected lawman, and he's raised a bright, tale...

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  Indigo Lake
  Two families long divided by an ancient feud. Can a powerful love finally unite them? Blade Hamilton is the last of his line. He's never even heard of Crossroads, Texas, until he inherits land there. Riding in on his vintage Harley-Davidson, Blad...

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  A Christmas Affair
  • Oct-2017
  • / Contemporary Romance
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    A shy soul and an adventurous heart. As the holidays approach, can they find happiness together? Maria Anne Davis was on her way to an exciting career as a chef in Dallas, until a terrible car accident left her blind. Ever resilient, Maria has rei...

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  Mornings on Main
  From the beloved and bestselling author of the Ransom Canyon and Harmony, Texas series comes a powerful, heartwarming story about generations of family and the ironclad bonds they forge Jillian James has never had a place she could call home. So w...

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  Mistletoe Miracles
  A small-town Texas Christmas story, where hearts are lost, love is found, and family always brings you back home. Griffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it’s a money pit. He’d soon...

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  The Little Teashop on Main
  A rainy-day ritual -- a tea party between three little girls -- becomes the framework of not only their friendship, but their lives. Redheaded, curly-haired Zoe is openhearted, kind and free-spirited, and dreams of becoming a famous actor in New Y...

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  Christmas in Winter Valley
  Ransom Canyon welcomes you back for a Christmas that has everything you’re looking for: romance, family and a whole lot of Texas. Cooper Holloway would take nature over people any day -- especially visiting relatives. That’s why he’s headed ...

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  One Night at the St. Nicholas
  It’s Christmas Eve, 1859, and everyone who’s anyone is headed to the glorious St. Nicholas Hotel for the most talked about ball of the season. It’s the kind of Texas night where anything can happen -- even love . . . To escape her stepmoth...

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  Breakfast at the Honey Creek Cafe
  On the rolling hills that border the Brazos River lies Honey Creek, Texas -- a small town where family bonds and legends run deep, and friendship and love are always close to hand . . . Piper Kate McKenzie, mayor of Honey Creek, won’t let a maj...

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  Father Goose
  In these Texas-set stories of romance and adventure, the Civil War is over, Christmas is coming -- and it’s time for three rugged fighters to become lovers . . . Dispirited by war, when Trapper Morgan accepts a job hauling five little rich girls...

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  Picnic in Someday Valley
  The charming and uplifting new novel from the legendary author of dozens of unforgettable romances! Travel to the small town of Honey Creek where ties run deep and happiness is just around the next river bend… Marcie Latimer longs to run away fr...

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  Dinner on Primrose Hill
  The delightful and touching new novel from the bestselling author of dozens of treasured romances. Return to the picturesque Texas town of Honey Creek -- a place where friendship and warm welcomes can be relied on, and love always finds a way… ...

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  Sunday at the Sunflower Inn
  In New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas’s tender and heartfelt new novel set in the charming small town of Honey Creek, Texas, spring is in the air -- and love is blooming too, as paths cross and hearts meet between residents old and new ....

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  The Wishing Quilt
  Three wishes -- for love, second chances, and brand-new beginnings -- come true, Texas-style, in this uplifting anthology from a talented trio of acclaimed authors . . .THE SECRET WISH * Jodi Thomas The little town of While-a-Way, Texas, may as well ...

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  Strawberry Lane
  Set in Someday Valley, surrounding the charming small town of Honey Creek, Texas, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas’s latest novel tells the heartwarming, tenderly romantic tale of a man who drives his car off a cliff -- straight into a...

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  The Wild Lavender Bookshop
  From beloved New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas, a slow burn romance that’s the epitome of comfort reading. Perfect for fans of Robyn Carr and Susan Mallery!Return to the unforgettable world of Someday Valley, Texas, in this tender, upli...

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  Silverleaf Rapids
  The captivating prequel to Ransom Canyon, now a Netflix series starring Minka Kelly and Josh Duhamel!Virgin River meets Yellowstone against the breathtaking, rugged backdrop of West Texas in this compelling, emotional origin story...

Award-Winning Books by Jodi Thomas

Beneath the Texas Sky
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- First Historical Romance
The Tender Texan
1992 Rita Award -- Historical Series
The Texan's Reward
2006 Rita Award -- Short Historical Romance
Texas Blue
2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- American Historical Romance
To Tame a Texan's Heart
1995 Rita Award -- Historical Single Title
Twilight in Texas
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- K.I.S.S. ('Knight In Shining Silver') Hero
Welcome to Harmony
2011 Rita Award -- Novel with Strong Romantic Elements

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jodi Thomas has published 75 books.

The next book by Jodi Thomas, Silverleaf Rapids, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Jodi Thomas, Beneath the Texas Sky, was published in July 1988.

Yes. Jodi Thomas has 10 series.