Welcome to our annual setting guide for a year’s worth of books! If you like to visit new places through the pages of a novel (or if you want to see if any books are set in your own home area), this list is for you. The books below released from Bethany House from July 2020 to June 2021.
And if you don’t see the setting you’re looking for, try our past road trips: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
United States Settings
Alabama: The Dress Shop on King Street by Ashley Clark (also South Carolina)
Alaska: Endless Mercy by Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse
Colorado: A Cowboy for Keeps by Jody Hedlund, Her Secret Song by Mary Connealy
Illinois: Shadows of the White City by Jocelyn Green
Indiana: Piecing it All Together and A Patchwork Past by Leslie Gould
Georgia: Dreams of Savannah by Roseanna M. White, Let It Be Me by Becky Wade
Michigan: On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright
Minnesota: Things We Didn’t Say by Amy Lynn Green, Destined for You by Tracie Peterson
Missouri: Courting Misfortune by Regina Jennings, Night Fall by Nancy Mehl
Montana: Love’s Mountain Quest and Faith’s Mountain Home by Misty M. Beller
New York: To Steal a Heart by Jen Turano, My Dear Miss Dupré by Grace Hitchcock
North Carolina: The Crushing Depths by Dani Pettrey
Oregon: Forever by Your Side by Tracie Peterson, Minutes to Die and Hours to Kill by Susan Sleeman, The Way it Should Be by Christina Suzann Nelson
Pennsylvania: The Stone Wall by Beverly Lewis
South Carolina: Paint and Nectar by Ashley Clark
Texas: Love and a Little White Lie by Tammy L. Gray, The Kissing Tree by Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, Amanda Dykes, and Nicole Deese, The Heart’s Charge by Karen Witemeyer
Washington: The Sowing Season by Katie Powner, All That Really Matters by Nicole Deese
Washington, D.C.: The Prince of Spies by Elizabeth Camden, Backlash and Power Play by Rachel Dylan
West Virginia: The Right Kind of Fool by Sarah Loudin Thomas
Wisconsin: The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jaime Jo Wright
Wyoming: Braced for Love by Mary Connealy
Other Countries
England: Line by Line by Jennifer Delamere, Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes, An Ivy Hill Christmas by Julie Klassen, Vying for the Viscount and Winning the Gentleman by Kristi Ann Hunter, A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White, A Castaway in Cornwall by Julie Klassen
Canada: A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund, A Haven for Her Heart and To Find Her Place by Susan Anne Mason, Sustaining Faith by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan
Germany: Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig – and Taiwan, Italy, England, South Africa, and more
India: A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy (also England)
Isle of Scilly: The Nature of a Lady by Roseanna M. White
Israel: The Shepherd’s Wife and A Woman of Words by Angela Hunt, To Dwell among Cedars by Connilyn Cossette
Spain: The Promised Land by Elizabeth Musser (and France)
How many of these books have you already read?
I have only read six so I have a lot of catching up to do. I have been a longtime fan of Bethany House and Baker Books. We used to order from you for our bookstore back in the day. I could always trust in the excellence of the authors and the quality of their prose. And I still do. Many of the above books are on my TBR list. Keep up the good working signing fabulous authors!
Thanks so much, Karen! There are some wonderful books on this list.
Amy Lokkesmoe
BHP Fiction Publicist
Have 16 of them and read almost all at this point…All the books you publish are great!!!
I’m so glad you think so, Patricia! So do we.
Amy Lokkesmoe
BHP Fiction Publicist
I’ve read 23 of the books listed here!
I’m so glad you’ve gotten so much “book travel” in, Elizabeth!
Amy Lokkesmoe
BHP Fiction Publicist