Award-winning and bestselling author Lauraine Snelling has over 80 books published with sales of over 4.5 million. Her original dream was to write horse books for children. Today, she writes adult novels about real issues centered on forgiveness, loss, domestic violence and cancer in her inspirational contemporary women’s fiction titles and historical series, including the favorite, Blessing books about Ingeborg Bjorklund and family. Lauraine enjoys helping others reach their writing dreams by teaching at writer’s conferences across the county. She and her husband Wayne have two grown sons, and a daughter in Heaven. They live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a Basset named Sir Winston ob de Mountains, Lapcat, and “The Girls” (three golden hens).
Series
Books
On Hummingbird Wings
2011
Beginning Again
1999
Valley of Dreams
2011
Dakota Dusk
1810
A Promise for Ellie
2006
A Song of Joy
2019
The Brushstroke Legacy
2006
A Blessing to Cherish
2020
Call for Courage
1992
Olympic Dreams
1995
A Touch of Grace
2008
What about Cimmaron?
2008
Saturday Morning
2005
DJ's Challenge
1995
Dakota December
2008
The Promise of Dawn
2017
Close Quarters
1998
Race for the Roses
1999
A New Day Rising
1996
Opal
2001
Letting Go
1999
Moving Up
1998
Whispers in the Wind
2012
Daughter of Twin Oaks
2000
A Season of Harvest
2024
Half Finished
2019
The Florence Legacy
2022
An Untamed Land
1995
A Season of Grace
2018
A Land to Call Home
1997
The Gift
A Horse, a Boy, and a Miracle of Love
2002
A Place to Belong
2013
Out of the Blue
1996
Fields of Bounty
2023
Dakota Destiny
2018
The Reapers Song
1982
Red River of the North Books #1-3
1997
Rebecca's Reward
2008
Sophie's Dilemma
2007
Raising the Bar
1999
Yuletide Treasure
The Finest Gift / A Blessed Season
2008
Reunion
2012
Dakota Dream
1993
Wake the Dawn
2013
The Race
1991
Someday Home
2015
Close Call
1994
Song of Laughter
1827
Breaking Free
2006
No Ordinary Owl
2013
Go for the Glory
1991
The Winner's Circle
1995
The Healing Quilt
2002
A Time to Bloom
2022
The Seeds of Change
2021
Kentucky Dreamer
1992
Dakota Dawn
1994
Sisters of the Confederacy
2000
An Untamed Heart
2013
Believing the Dream
2002
One Perfect Day
2008
Blessing in Disguise
1999
From This Day Forward
2016
Ruby
2003
Amethyst
2005
A Harvest of Hope
2015
A Breath of Hope
2018
Pearl
2001
Secondhand Horses
2013
Out of the Mist
1993
A Measure of Mercy
2009
Shadow Over San Mateo
1993
The Way of Women
2004
More Than a Dream
2003
A Pioneer Christmas Collection
2013
Setting the Pace
1996
Dog Daze
2012
Heaven Sent Rain
2014
Storm Clouds
1997
A Hand to Hold
Helping Someone Through Grief
2004
A Heart for Home
2011
The Second Half
2016
Eagle's Wings
1991
Land of Dreams
2025
Streams of Mercy
2015
No Distance Too Far
2009
Once Upon A Christmas
2005
Tender Mercies
1999
Class Act
2000
A Dream to Follow
2001
Second Wind
1994
To Everything a Season
2014
Dakota
Dakota Dawn/Dakota Dream/Dakota Dusk/Dakota Destiny
1998
The Great Cat Caper
2012
