Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Men of Bitter Creek: Two Complete Novels | 2004 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 2 | The Cowboy | 2000 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 3 | The Men of Bitter Creek | 2019 | Joan Johnston | Buy |
| 4 | The Texan | 2001 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 5 | The Loner | 2002 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 6 | The Price | 2003 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 7 | The Rivals | 2004 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 8 | The Next Mrs. Blackthorne | 2005 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 9 | A Stranger’s Game | 2008 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 10 | Shattered | 2009 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 11 | A Bitter Creek Christmas | 2013 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 12 | Shameless | 2015 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
| 13 | Surrender | 2018 | Joan Johnston | N/A |
The Bitter Creek Collections bring together Joan Johnston’s Bitter Creek novels in collected formats. The Men of Bitter Creek: Two Complete Novels (2004) was one of the first bundles, and The Men of Bitter Creek (2019) is a more recent compilation. These editions repackage the individual novels like The Cowboy, The Texan, The Loner, and others into multi-book volumes.
For readers who want to catch up on the series or prefer reading in larger chunks, these collections offer a way to get multiple Bitter Creek stories in a single purchase. The novels within are the same as the individual editions, just grouped together for convenience.