Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worth The Wait | 2012 | Kay Lyons Stockham | N/A |
| 2 | Secrets of a Summer Night | 2012 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 3 | Not by Sight | 2015 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 4 | Christmas in Stone Gap | 2013 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 5 | Her Unwanted Protector | 2015 | Kay Lyons Stockham | N/A |
| 6 | Redemption Road | 2013 | Kay Lyons Stockham | N/A |
| 7 | To Protect Her: A Damsel in Distress Secret Baby Forbidden Love Romance | 2015 | Kay Lyons Stockham | N/A |
| 8 | More Than Love | 2015 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 9 | To Protect Her | 2015 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 10 | Christmas At Holly Wood | 2017 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 11 | Their Christmas Miracle | 2017 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
| 12 | Second Chances | 2017 | Kay Lyons Stockham | Buy |
Stone River is Kay Lyons Stockham’s largest original series, collecting twelve books set in and around a fictional small community. The series started building in 2012 with Secrets of a Summer Night and Worth the Wait before picking up pace through the mid-2010s with Not by Sight, More Than Love, and Her Unwanted Protector. It continued adding Christmas entries and standalone stories through 2017.
The series works as a long-form portrait of a community rather than a single narrative thread. Characters from early books appear in later ones — as neighbors, relatives, and occasional comic relief — giving the series the satisfying quality of a fictional town you get to know over time. Not by Sight was the first book published under the Kay Lyons name rather than Kay Stockham, marking the author’s transition to independent publishing.