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?