Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Edge of Town | 2001 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
| 2 | High on a Hill | 2002 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
| 3 | A Place Called Rainwater | 2003 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
| 4 | River Rising | 2004 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
| 5 | Mother Road | 2003 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
| 6 | Hope’s Highway | 2004 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
| 7 | Song of the Road | 2004 | Dorothy Garlock | Buy |
The Jazz Age series by Dorothy Garlock brings her historical romance writing into the 1920s and 1930s. The seven books, starting with The Edge of Town (2001) and continuing through Song of the Road (2004), are set in small American towns during Prohibition and the early Depression years. The era gives the books a different energy from her frontier westerns, with speakeasies, bootleggers, and the economic anxiety of the times shaping the characters’ lives.
Several books in this series overlap with both the Dolan Brothers and Route 66 series, as Garlock’s extended fictional families move through different decades of American history. The Jazz Age setting provides rich material for romance, with characters caught between traditional values and the rapid social changes of the period.