Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Christmas Coat for Abigail | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 2 | A Christmas Child for Callie | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 3 | A Christmas Card for Krista | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 4 | A Christmas Hope for Regina | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 5 | A Christmas Kiss for Kate | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 6 | A Christmas Comfort for Elsie | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 7 | A Christmas Wish for Clara | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 8 | A Christmas Wreath for Whitney | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 9 | A Christmas Carol for Catherine | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 10 | A Christmas Home for Hannah | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 11 | A Christmas Tree for Trudel | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 12 | A Christmas Candle for Eleanor | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 13 | A Christmas Escape for Elizabeth | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 14 | A Christmas Dream for Destiny | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 15 | A Christmas Magic for Merritt | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 16 | A Christmas Journey for Jessie | 2021 | London James | Buy |
| 17 | A Christmas Baby for Beatrice | 2022 | London James | Buy |
| 18 | A Christmas Groom for Grace | 2022 | London James | Buy |
| 19 | A Christmas Snow for Sadie | 2022 | London James | Buy |
| 20 | A Christmas Miracle for Marjory | 2022 | London James | Buy |
| 21 | A Christmas Tradition for Tabitha | 2023 | London James | Buy |
| 22 | A Christmas Dance for Ella | 2024 | London James | Buy |
The Mail-Order Brides’ First Christmas series is London James’s largest work, with 22 books published between 2021 and 2024. Each book follows a different mail-order bride experiencing her first Christmas in the West with her new husband. The titles all follow the same pattern: “A Christmas [noun] for [name],” from A Christmas Coat for Abigail to A Christmas Dance for Ella.
The series is heavily front-loaded, with sixteen of the twenty-two books released in 2021 alone. That initial burst established the format and the appeal: short, sweet western romances built around the warmth of the Christmas season and the vulnerability of a new marriage. Later entries continued to appear yearly through 2024, adding new brides and new stories to the collection.
Because each book focuses on a different heroine, readers can dip into the series anywhere. The Christmas setting gives every book a cozy, hopeful atmosphere, and the mail-order bride premise provides the right amount of uncertainty and anticipation to drive each romance forward. For fans of holiday westerns, this series offers enough variety to keep the formula from getting stale across its 22 installments.