Linda Lael Miller's Springwater Series
A Timeline

SPRINGWATER (January 1999)
  • Springwater, Montana Territory, 1870
    The widow Evangeline Keating journeys from Pennsylvania to Springwater, Montana with her six-year-old daughter, Abigail, for a marriage of convenience to lonely rancher John Keating. But the broad-shouldered rider who comes for her at Springwater Station is not her husband-to-be but the rancher's partner, Scully Wainright. Keating's not due back until Spring, and, until then, Scully must guard the attractive widow from wolves and Indians -- and his heart from the passion that sparks between them.
RACHEL (January 1999)
  • Springwater, 1874
    After her fiancé dies in the Civil War, Rachel English travels from the East to Springwater to take a post as the frontier town's first teacher. Right away she must take a stand against the Brimstone Saloon across the road from the new school, but she is powerfully attracted to the bar's part-owner, handsome widower Trey Hargreaves.
SAVANNAH (February 1999)
  • Springwater, Summer 1875
    On her way to Springwater to assume half ownership of the Brimstone, saloon waitress Savannah Rigbey enlists Dr. Prescott Parrish to deliver a desperate young women's baby. The Civil War surgeon-turned-drunk is just passing through Springwater and considers the soiled dove as used up as he is. But Springwater opens its arms to the misfits, and before winter sets in, Springwater has itself a doctor and a new, upstanding couple.
MIRANDA (March 1999)
  • Springwater, Fall 1875
    Having given birth to her illegitimate child on the stagecoach to Springwater, Miranda is desperate for a home for her and her baby. Rancher and widower Landry Kildare is equally desperate for a caretaker for his two wild sons. Although the arrangement is purely practical, love blossoms, and the frontier town welcomes them into their fold.
JESSICA (April 1999)
  • Springwater, Winter 1890
    When Jessica Barnes arrives in Springwater from St. Louis to help her brother run his fledgling Springwater Gazette, she learns both Michael and his wife have died, leaving newborn twin girls. Jessica pledges to run the newspaper and parent the babies, distrusting Mayor Gage Calloway when he offers to take the Gazette off her hands and adopt out the twins. Trapped with the good mayor in a blizzard, Jessica realizes Gage isn't the ogre her prideful brother led her to believe. He's a good-hearted man who offers her and the babies his heart.
A SPRINGWATER CHRISTMAS (October 1999)
  • Springwater, Fall 1882
    Having bought Mayor Calloway's big home, Olivia Wilcott Darling takes up residence in Springwater and converts the impressive dwelling into a boarding house. A reclusive outsider at heart, Olivia takes in the only other newcomer as her first boarder, an embittered drifter who calls himself Jack McLaughlin. Olivia and the rough-hewn boarder find comfort in their shared isolation, but Jack has arrived with a dreadful mission. He's come to reveal a terrible secret to June-bug and Jacob McCaffrey, proprietors of Springwater station, who have long mourned the loss of both their sons in the Civil War. With a cave-in at the mine and Jack's stunning revelation of his true identity, Springwater witnesses a heartwarming Christmas reunion that will change their lives forever.
SPRINGWATER WEDDING (2001 hardcover; 2002 mass market paperback)
  • Springwater, 2000
    Today, cattle rustlers are still stirring up trouble in Springwater, but now they're high-tech operators. Where stagecoaches once rolled along muddy roads, the Internet is the newest highway in town. But heartbreak is still heartbreak, and love still love. Springwater still boasts a rich legacy of joy, sorrow and second chances as two childhood sweethearts rekindle a long-ago passion.

    Maggie McCaffrey comes back to town to turn the dilapidated Springwater Station into a bed-and-breakfast, but she hadn't counted on running straight into J.T. Wainright, the hometown boy who stole her heart years before. A former big city cop, J.T. survived a grave gunshot wound and has returned to find a better way of life. As deputy town marshal, he's facing off with modern-day cattle thieves who are plaguing local ranchers. J.T. seems ready for anything - except Maggie.

    Readers will enjoy meeting many descendants of Springwater's early residents, such as
    • Maggie McCaffrey, daughter of Kathleen and Reece McCaffrey, whose forebears are June-bug and Jacob McCaffrey, founders of Springwater Station. One of Kathleen and Reece's two sons is named Wes, after the son of June-bug and Jacob who they thought died in the Civil War but turned up in town in A SPRINGWATER CHRISTMAS
    • J.T. Wainright, great great grandson of Scully and Evangeline Wainright, from the original SPRINGWATER, and J.T.'s six-year-old son, Quinn.
    • Daphne Hargreaves Evanston, who descends from Trey Hargreaves, original owner of the still-existing Brimstone Saloon who was married to Rachel English Hargreaves, the town's first schoolteacher, and owner of the Jupiter & Zeus Silver Mine
    • Ellen Parrish, Springwater's only doctor and a direct descendant of Preston Parrish, the town's first doctor.
    • Shannon Kildare, and six sons, who date back to Landry Kildare of MIRANDA