Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montana Skies | 2007 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 2 | The Sheriff’s Daughter | 2011 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 3 | In the Rancher’s Footsteps | 2011 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 4 | Christmas in Montana | 2011 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 5 | A Hero in the Making | 2012 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
North Star, Montana builds its cast across five books set in a fictional Montana community where the McKenna and Taggert families keep turning up in each other’s lives. The series started with the Harlequin Superromance line before Kay Stockham moved to independent publishing, and the original books have since been revised and repackaged.
Later books in the series include holiday entries like Christmas in Montana and A Hero in the Making, which follows Skylar Mathews — a character readers first met as a teenager — years later as she returns to Montana with her son. That kind of long-view continuity gives North Star its appeal: it feels like checking in on a community rather than starting fresh each time.