Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hostage Heart | 1987 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 2 | The Christmas Wild Bunch | 2017 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
This collection brings together two shorter works from Lindsay McKenna’s career separated by thirty years. Hostage Heart, published in 1987, came during the period when McKenna was establishing her reputation in military-inflected romance, and the title suggests the kind of high-stakes scenario she returned to throughout that decade.
The Christmas Wild Bunch, published in 2017, reflects a very different moment in her career. By that point McKenna had been writing for over thirty years and had a large, established readership for her series fiction. A holiday novella represents a looser, more seasonal kind of writing that many romance authors return to periodically, and McKenna brings the same warmth to it that she had developed in later books like the Wyoming series.
Together, the two pieces give a snapshot of McKenna at very different stages – the 1987 title showing her early voice, the 2017 one her later, more relaxed style. Neither requires the other as context, and both work as quick reads for fans wanting something shorter from her.