Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors

About the Series

Nestled in the breathtaking mountains of West Kootenai, Montana, a charming tradition unfolds every year. Thirty to forty young Amish men make the journey west each spring, living in this close-knit community for six months to earn hunting residency for the fall season. They arrive as bachelors. They go home with brides.

All three novels are available individually or as a complete collection. Each book can be read as a standalone, though the world of West Kootenai grows richer with every visit.

Book One: The Memory Jar

For ten years, Sarah has made her home in West Kootenai, baking cupcakes, tending her quiet life, and carrying the weight of a grief she won't let herself feel. Since the sudden death of her closest friend, she has filled a jar with small mementos, fragments of memory she holds onto because letting go feels like losing Patty all over again. She has built a careful life, but left no room in it for love.

Then Jathan arrives with the annual wave of Amish bachelors, and something in his quiet steadiness begins to chip away at the wall she's spent a decade constructing. He is kind, a little funny, and carrying wounds of his own. Neither of them came looking for this. But love in West Kootenai has a way of surprising people.

Can Sarah finally unlock the jar—and her heart—before she loses everything she's been afraid to want?

Book Two: The Promise Box

She left the Amish behind. Now the Amish—and the faith she buried—are calling her home.

Lydia Wyse built a different life in Seattle: a career as a book editor, a world of her own making, and a past she preferred not to examine too closely. But when her mother dies, Lydia returns to West Kootenai to be with her grieving father and stumbles upon a worn Promise Box her mother kept, filled with prayers and scripture. It is a small wooden treasure that begins to unravel everything Lydia thought she'd left behind.

Her publisher smells opportunity. A tell-all about the Amish, written by one of their own. But Lydia finds herself falling in love with the community she abandoned, and with Gideon Hooley, an Amish bachelor whose quiet faith stands in contrast to everything she has become. 

Book Three: The Kissing Bridge

Rebecca Troyer has always lived a little outside the lines—shifts at an Englisch bakery, weekends with non-Amish friends, a dream she'd kept hidden for years. But on the day her sister died, something inside Rebecca shifted permanently. She made a vow: she would become a nurse. She would never stand helpless like that again.

Leaving her family a note and her Amish life behind, Rebecca boards a bus heading west. A brief stop in West Kootenai, Montana, to visit an old friend turns into something far more complicated when she meets Caleb Hooley, a daredevil bachelor who has convinced himself no Amish woman could ever keep up with him. He's wrong about that. What follows is a week in the Montana wilderness that will test everything Rebecca believes about identity, faith, and whether the life you run toward can hold the person you are becoming.

What Readers are Saying

"The Memory Jar is Amish with a twist, because it begins in Montana. It is a journey to wholeness and a journey to dreams. There's plenty of love and romance to keep the pages turning — a very satisfying story for those who love gentler stories."

"She creates a book with moments of depth that will touch your heart... Ms. Goyer has done it again, but in a way where she will impact this severely saturated market of light Amish reads."

"The realism and relevancy in the message of The Promise Box might even appeal to those who would never normally pick up an Amish novel... her characters are human — they make mistakes, don't always tell the truth, jump to conclusions, and get angry or upset — and that makes them all the more relatable."

"Each of Tricia Goyer's latest novels I read is better than the last, and I marvel at how she can do that. The Promise Box is my favorite so far of her Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors series."

"I love the way Tricia Goyer leads her characters through challenges and strife, forcing them to the point where they need to make life-altering decisions. I couldn't really see a clear path for Rebecca through this whole story — and I had no idea how everything would end up until... well, the end!"