Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wind River Wrangler | 2016 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 2 | Wind River Cowboy | 2017 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 3 | Wrangler’s Challenge | 2017 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 4 | Lone Rider | 2018 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 5 | Wind River Lawman | 2018 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 6 | Home to Wind River | 2018 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 7 | Kassie’s Cowboy | 2018 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 8 | Wind River Protector | 2019 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 9 | Wind River Undercover | 2020 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
The Wind River Valley series began in 2016 with Wind River Wrangler and grew to nine books by 2020, making it one of the more recent sustained runs in Lindsay McKenna’s catalog. Set in Wyoming’s Wind River area, the series builds a community of ranchers, veterans, lawmen, and the women who arrive in the valley carrying their own histories. Each book adds a new couple while keeping the valley itself as a constant.
The military veteran thread running through several of these books connects the series to McKenna’s longer history with military romance. Books like Wind River Lawman and Wind River Protector feature characters whose service history shapes who they are and what they are looking for, giving the Western setting an emotional depth that goes beyond the landscape. McKenna treats the transition from military to civilian life with the same seriousness she brings to the service itself.
Wind River Undercover, published in 2020, closes this particular arc of the series with a romantic suspense thread that brings law enforcement tension into the valley setting. Readers who enjoy contemporary Western romance with emotionally grounded characters will find the Wind River Valley series one of McKenna’s most accessible and consistently satisfying recent projects.