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Marie Bostwick Books in Order

See all Marie Bostwick books in order, with quick summaries, series lists, reading order tips, and suggestions on where to start with her quilting and contemporary women’s fiction.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Fields of Gold

by Marie Bostwick

2005

In Dust Bowl era Dillon, Oklahoma, farm girl Evangeline Glennon expects a quiet life until a barnstorming pilot lands in her father's wheat field, changing her future. As drought, hardship, and war gather, the quilts she stitches capture both heartbreak and hard won hope.

River's Edge

by Marie Bostwick

2006

After her mother's death, German teenager Elise Braun is sent alone to relatives in the United States to escape the coming war. As World War II pulls loved ones onto opposing sides, she must decide where her heart and loyalties truly belong.

On Wings of the Morning

by Marie Bostwick

2007

Born under the wide Oklahoma sky, Morgan Glennon chases his dream of flying straight into the dangers of World War II. At the same time, determined Georgia Jean Carter finds purpose as a female pilot, and their intersecting journeys test courage, faith, and love.

A Single Thread

by Marie Bostwick

2008

After her long marriage ends, Evelyn Dixon impulsively drives from Texas to New Bern, Connecticut, where she opens a quilt shop just as a health crisis threatens everything. Three very different women walk through her door, and together they stitch a sisterhood neither expected.

A Thread of Truth

by Marie Bostwick

2009

Ivy Peterman flees an abusive husband with her children and lands in New Bern, where a part time job at Cobbled Court Quilts finally lets her breathe. When a quilting television show exposes her location, Ivy must confront her past with the help of her new friends.

A Thread So Thin

by Marie Bostwick

2010

Artist Liza Burgess loves Evelyn's son Garrett, but a surprise New Year's Eve proposal collides with a rare chance to launch her career. Caught between independence and commitment, she leans on the Cobbled Court circle while she decides what kind of life she really wants.

Threading the Needle

by Marie Bostwick

2011

As the economy sours, Tessa Woodruff's herb shop and once solid marriage begin to unravel, driving her to a quilting class at Cobbled Court. There she reunites with estranged childhood friend Madelyn Beecher, and together they must rebuild homes, businesses, and trust.

Ties That Bind

by Marie Bostwick

2012

Turning forty, Margot Matthews loves her job at Cobbled Court Quilts but quietly fears she has missed her chance at lasting love. When a new female pastor arrives in New Bern and family trouble erupts, the quilting sisterhood helps Margot face grief, faith, and an unexpected romance.

Between Heaven and Texas

by Marie Bostwick

2013

In the tiny town of Too Much, Texas, tall, outspoken Mary Dell Templeton dreams of turning her sewing talent into a business even as she longs for a baby. Marriage, family secrets, and the birth of her exceptional son Howard force her to rethink what happily ever after looks like.

Apart at the Seams

by Marie Bostwick

2014

College counselor Gayla Oliver thinks a fixer upper in New Bern might rekindle her marriage, until she discovers proof of her husband's affair. Retreating to the Cobbled Court community, she explores creativity, friendship, and the risky possibility of piecing together a very different future.

The Second Sister

by Marie Bostwick

2015

Political strategist Lucy Toomey is on the brink of a Washington dream job when her developmentally disabled sister dies, drawing her back to their Wisconsin hometown. Living in Alice's cottage, Lucy uncovers quilts, quirky friends, and a second chance to build a life rooted in love instead of ambition alone.

From Here to Home

by Marie Bostwick

2016

Years after opening her quilt shop, Mary Dell Templeton now co hosts a successful quilting show and plans to bring it home to Too Much, Texas. Her grown son Howard craves independence, a younger co host threatens her spotlight, and Mary Dell must embrace change to keep her family and town thriving.

The Promise Girls

by Marie Bostwick

2017

Once marketed as engineered prodigies by their ambitious mother, sisters Joanie, Meg, and Avery Promise have spent adulthood trying to escape that experiment. A new documentary, a bad accident, and an intriguing filmmaker pull them back together to face secrets and choose lives defined on their own terms.

Just in Time

by Marie Bostwick

2018

Grace, Nan, and Monica meet at a grief support group and promptly decide it is not for them, forming their own unlikely alliance instead. As they navigate a husband's coma, long widowhood, and betrayal uncovered after death, their friendship becomes the lifeline that leads each woman toward healing and new joy.

Hope on the Inside

by Marie Bostwick

2019

With her children grown and her husband facing forced retirement, Hope Carpenter feels adrift until she takes a job teaching crafts at a women's prison. Through a shared quilting project, Hope and the inmates confront regret, rebuild confidence, and see that it is never too late to start again.

The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

by Marie Bostwick

2021

Fired from her job as an anonymous advice columnist just as an adoption opportunity finally appears, Celia Fairchild inherits a crumbling Charleston house from an estranged aunt. Renovating the wreck with new friends, she uncovers family secrets and the courage to claim the messy, loving life she wants.

Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

by Marie Bostwick

2023

After a divorce and the loss of her New York publishing job, Esme Cahill returns to her North Carolina hometown to help save her family's fading lakeside lodge. Working with her grandfather, estranged mother, and a gifted chef, she discovers her grandmother's art quilts and her own unexpected second act.

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

by Marie Bostwick

2025

In early 1960s Virginia, suburban housewife Margaret Ryan starts a book club mainly to befriend her intriguing new neighbor, Charlotte. Reading a provocative new feminist book with friends Bitsy and Viv pushes all four women to question their roles and imagine something freer.

Where should I start?

If you want small town quilting and found family: A Single ThreadA Thread of TruthA Thread So Thin
If you love historical fiction and wartime romance: Fields of GoldRiver's EdgeOn Wings of the Morning
If you prefer contemporary women rebuilding their lives: The Second SisterJust in TimeHope on the Inside
If Southern settings and family drama appeal to you: Between Heaven and TexasFrom Here to HomeEsme Cahill Fails Spectacularly
If you are curious about her newest work: The Restoration of Celia FairchildEsme Cahill Fails SpectacularlyThe Book Club for Troublesome Women

Author bio

Marie Bostwick grew up in Eugene, Oregon, the youngest of four sisters in a family that knew both comfort and lean years. Surrounded by library books and the rhythms of small town life, she learned early how stories can make hard days feel lighter.

After her parents divorced, money grew tight and summers meant long days working in Oregon fields. Those seasons of hard work and close knit communities later fed the way she writes about ordinary people facing extraordinary change.

As a child she was the kind of reader who always had a book in hand, and before long she started making up stories of her own. One early project was a homemade script for the musical Camelot, written before she was even old enough to see the film, simply because the songs on her grandmother's record player demanded a story to match.

In high school she kept filling notebooks with short stories and moody poems, eventually earning an English award, but writing still felt like a side hobby. Adult life took her in many directions first. She picked beans, sang and danced in musical productions, acted in television commercials, taught religion to deaf children, planned events, scheduled a United States senator, and worked in church ministry.

That patchwork resume turned out to be training for the kind of fiction she would one day write. Each job offered a new vantage point on how women juggle work, family, faith, and community.

The turning point came on a girlfriends' vacation in the mid nineteen nineties, when she slipped into a writers' workshop mostly to avoid sports she says she is hopeless at. At the end of the week the instructor assumed she was already a professional and told her, simply, that she was a writer. The idea lodged so deeply that she went home determined to prove him right.

It took years of drafting between moves, volunteer work, and raising three sons, but the first novel, Fields of Gold, finally appeared in 2005. Set in the fictional town of Dillon, Oklahoma, during the Dust Bowl and World War II, it introduced readers to the blend of historical detail, faith, and family that would become her hallmark and earned recognition from regional and genre awards.

She followed that debut with River's Edge and On Wings of the Morning, then turned her lifelong love of quilting into the popular Cobbled Court Quilts novels, beginning with A Single Thread. That series about a New England quilt shop and the women who gather there found a devoted audience and brought honors such as an Indie Next nod for A Thread of Truth and a career achievement award from a major review magazine.

Bostwick has also written companion books set in Too Much, Texas and a string of stand alone novels, including The Second Sister, Hope on the Inside, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly, and The Book Club for Troublesome Women. Her work has reached bestseller lists, been translated into many languages, and even inspired a Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of The Second Sister under the title Christmas Everlasting.

Today she lives in Washington state with her husband, Brad, and a moderately spoiled Cavalier King Charles spaniel. When she is not at her desk, she quilts, knits, cooks, and writes a lifestyle blog that encourages readers to savor everyday joys. She also travels often to speak with book clubs, quilt guilds, and library audiences, still delighted that the job she almost talked herself out of has become the work she was meant to do.

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