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Mail Order Bride Books in Order by Al and JoAnna Lacy and others

Mail Order Bride contains 10 books, published between 1998 and 2002. The first book is Secrets of the Heart (1998) and the newest is Let There Be Light (2002). Publication order is the reading order below.

Other series are also called Mail Order Bride: Mail Order Bride Books in Order: 2 Different Series.

Books
10
Published
1998–2002
Pages on record
2,682 in 9 of 10 books
Reading time
45–67 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,682 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

See all 10 books in order Printable Mail Order Bride checklist

Mail Order Bride is a Christian historical romance series of 10 books published from 1998 to 2002. The listing credits 9 of the books to Al and JoAnna Lacy and 1 to Al Lacy / Bill Reno. Secrets of the Heart (1998) is the first book and Let There Be Light (2002) the last. Subjects include mail order brides, women pioneers and frontier life, and Nevada and Nebraska also appear as subjects.

How many Mail Order Bride books are there?

Mail Order Bride has 10 books, released between 1998 and 2002.

Mail Order Bride Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Mail Order Bride books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Secrets of the Heart, book 1 of the Mail Order Bride series (1998)
  2. Cover of A Time to Love, book 2 of the Mail Order Bride series (1998)
  3. Cover of The Tender Flame, book 3 of the Mail Order Bride series (1999)
  4. Cover of Blessed Are the Merciful, book 4 of the Mail Order Bride series (1999)
  5. Cover of Ransom of Love, book 5 of the Mail Order Bride series (2000)
  6. Cover of Sincerely Yours, book 7 of the Mail Order Bride series (2001)
  7. Cover of Measure Of Grace, book 8 of the Mail Order Bride series (2001)
  8. Cover of So Little Time by Al Lacy / Bill Reno, book 9 of the Mail Order Bride series (2002)
  9. Cover of Let There Be Light, book 10 of the Mail Order Bride series (2002)
  1. 1
    Secrets of the Heart1998 · 301 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998301
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  2. 2
    A Time to Love1998 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998312
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  3. 3
    The Tender Flame1999 · 283 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999283
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  4. 4
    Blessed Are the Merciful1999 · 275 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999275
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  5. 5
    Ransom of Love2000 · 328 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000328
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  6. 6
    Until The Daybreak2000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  7. 7
    Sincerely Yours2001 · 276 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001276
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  8. 8
    Measure Of Grace2001 · 307 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001307
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  9. 9
    So Little Time2002 · 295 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002295
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  10. 10
    Let There Be Light2002 · 305 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002305
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Do you have to read Mail Order Bride books in order?

You should read the Mail Order Bride books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Mail Order Bride book also stands alone.

Where to start with Mail Order Bride

Start with Secrets of the Heart (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Mail Order Bride book?

Let There Be Light (2002) is the newest Mail Order Bride book released so far.

Is there a new Mail Order Bride book coming?

No next Mail Order Bride book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Mail Order Bride at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Mail Order Bride title on record dates from 2002, 24 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Mail Order Bride books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,682 pages across the 9 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 301 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mail Order Bride books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2000s.
Attribution
Of the 10 titles, 9 are credited to Al and JoAnna Lacy and 1 to Al Lacy / Bill Reno.

What the Mail Order Bride books are about

8 of the 10 Mail Order Bride books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: women pioneers is tagged on 7 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.