Books like To Wed In Texas by Jodi Thomas

At eleven, Calpurnia Tate explores Texas nature, learns about insects with her skeptical grandfather, and discovers what it means to grow up and be a girl in 1899.

Two aspiring freedom‑seekers in Charleston—Benjamin, a 19‑year‑old escaped from South Africa, and Dan Johnson—plan a cattle ranch in Texas while battling slavery and bigotry with the support of their mail‑order brides.

A family's life in Texas during the Great Depression in the Lucinda Richards Trilogy.

Shea Hardin marries billionaire Alec Morreston to save her family's Texas ranch, vowing a marriage of convenience—until Alec’s seductive advances make the deal dangerously tempting.

When Charity Bloom is left at the altar by a best friend who elopes with her fiancé, a handsome stranger named Buddy Pierce discovers oil on her Texas ranch. With an ex‑fiancé’s return and a deceitful rival in the mix, Charity must decide who to trust with her heart and her future.

Rainey Adams meets Texas Ranger Travis McMurray, steals a kiss and his horse, sparking a pursuit at Whispering Mountain Ranch where Travis seeks to bring her home as his bride.

When Captain Walker Larson is assigned to protect his wife Lacy, the two forced in a marriage crafted by a lottery discover that love can be a surprising, determined gamble.

A former slave and his family seek a new life on the Texas plains after the Civil War, only to have their hopes shattered by an Indian raid that leaves them divided and desperate for reunion.

Rosa Lee Altman’s hidden past emerges as the community of Clifton Creek, Texas, grapples with the fate of her abandoned home and the powerful love it preserved.

During the Great Depression in East Texas, the Stoddard sisters—responsible Mayme, tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—navigate poverty, drought, and a devastating family accident, ultimately turning to a wildcat oil well and a racehorse for hope.

Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel, a milestone in Mexican-American and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change. After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between two young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the U.S.-Mexico War. Caballero's young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender and sexual contradictions. An introduction by Jose E. Limon, epilogue by Maria Cotera, and foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck offer a clear picture of the importance of the work to the study of Mexican-American and Texas history and to the feminist critique of culture. This work, long lost in a collection of private papers and unavailable until now, serves as a literary ethnography of South Texas-Mexican folklore customs and traditions.

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 beautiful widow promised him honor. If he helped her save the Cheyenne children. . . . Taking the children home to the Great Plains as the Indian War raged, they risked their lives. But when danger ignited their desires, they met the greatest risk of all - - falling in love. . . .

Hannah Setterington, a seasoned governess, trades her academy for a companion role with the enigmatic Lord Raeburn, whose dark past and rumored murder of his wife threaten to ignite a passionate and dangerous romance.

When a relentless rainstorm and a plague threaten rural Thunder Ridge, Texas, schoolteacher Audrey Pride must care for the sick while confronting her growing affection for widower Eli Gray as their community battles water and disease.