Olivia Newport Books in Order (Updated May 9, 2026)

Olivia Newport writes inspirational fiction, Amish fiction, historical romance, contemporary romance, cozy mystery, and dual-timeline genealogy mysteries. Her books often connect present-day faith questions with family history, community secrets, or the pull between modern and traditional life.

Her catalogue is best read by series. Valley of Choice, Avenue of Dreams, Amish Turns of Time, Hidden Falls, and Tree of Life each have their own reading path.

For most new readers, the best starting point is Accidentally Amish if you want Amish/contemporary fiction, The Pursuit of Lucy Banning if you want historical fiction, or The Inn at Hidden Run if you want genealogy mystery.

The Short Orientation

1. Start with Accidentally Amish for Newport’s most accessible Amish-contemporary series.
2. Start with The Pursuit of Lucy Banning for her Gilded Age Chicago historical fiction.
3. Start with Wonderful Lonesome for historical Amish fiction.
4. Start with Ordinary Secrets if you want the original Hidden Falls serial.
5. Start with The Inn at Hidden Run if you want the later Tree of Life genealogy mysteries.

Valley of Choice Books in Order

The Valley of Choice trilogy should be read in order. It follows Annie Friesen as her modern life becomes entangled with Amish identity, faith, family history, and romance.

1. Accidentally Amish (2012): Annie Friesen’s modern career and hidden family history collide when she is drawn into Amish life and begins questioning what kind of future she really wants.
2. In Plain View (2013): Annie’s growing ties to Amish community and Rufus Beiler deepen, but faith, family expectations, and cultural boundaries make her choices more complicated.
3. Taken for English (2014): The trilogy brings Annie’s personal and romantic questions toward resolution while the past continues to shape what belonging can mean.

Avenue of Dreams Books in Order

Avenue of Dreams is a historical fiction trilogy set around early twentieth-century Chicago society. Read these in order because the books share setting, class tension, and connected women navigating social expectations.

1. The Pursuit of Lucy Banning (2012): Lucy Banning is expected to marry well and behave properly, but education, service, and a forbidden attraction push her beyond the role society has chosen for her.
2. The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow (2013): A young maid must protect a dangerous secret while working inside Chicago’s wealthy social world, where class lines and personal loyalty threaten her future.
3. The Invention of Sarah Cummings (2013): Sarah longs to reinvent herself beyond service, but ambition, deception, and romance force her to decide what kind of life is worth pursuing.

Amish Turns of Time Books in Order

Amish Turns of Time is historical Amish fiction. Each book is tied to a different historical pressure point, so publication order gives the clearest reading experience.

1. Wonderful Lonesome (2014): Set in the early 1910s, this opening book follows Amish believers facing isolation, change, and the challenge of preserving faith under pressure.
2. Meek and Mild (2015): The series continues with conflict around Amish schooling, obedience, conscience, and the cost of standing firm in a changing world.
3. Brightest and Best (2015): A schoolhouse collapse and questions around education place Amish families under new scrutiny and force difficult choices about children, faith, and authority.
4. Hope in the Land (2016): During the New Deal era, an outsider’s arrival in Lancaster County brings government programs, modern pressure, and difficult questions about whether help can come without compromise.
5. Gladden the Heart (2017): A revival movement disturbs Amish community life, forcing characters to weigh spiritual fervor, tradition, family stability, and communal trust.

Hidden Falls Serial in Order

Hidden Falls was originally released as a 13-part serial. Read the episodes in order because the story unfolds like a season of television, with one small-town mystery widening across the installments.

1. Ordinary Secrets (2013): The serial begins in the town of Hidden Falls, where the disappearance of Ted Quinn exposes the first layer of community secrets.
2. Losing Quinn (2014): Ted Quinn’s absence becomes more troubling as neighbors begin to understand that his disappearance affects more people than expected.
3. A Town in Trouble (2014): Hidden Falls moves from private worry to public disruption as the mystery begins to unsettle the whole town.
4. Unexpected Hero (2014): A surprising figure steps forward as the town’s crisis creates new pressure and unexpected alliances.
5. The Mayor’s Quandary (2014): Local leadership is drawn deeper into the mystery, making civic responsibility and personal uncertainty harder to separate.
6. No Time for Answers (2014): The search for answers becomes more urgent as old questions and new complications start closing in.
7. Yesterday’s Promise (2014): Past commitments and buried history begin to matter more, showing that the present crisis did not begin overnight.
8. All You Need to Know (2014): Hidden Falls residents confront how much they truly know about one another as the mystery keeps widening.
9. A Fair Refuge (2014): The town’s need for safety and shelter becomes central as the mystery tests loyalty and trust.
10. One Familiar Tune (2014): A familiar clue or connection draws the investigation back toward people and memories the town thought it understood.
11. When Memory Came (2014): Memory becomes a key force in the serial, bringing older truths into the current search for Ted Quinn.
12. The Groundskeeper Remembered (2014): A remembered figure or forgotten detail helps sharpen the mystery as the season approaches its conclusion.
13. Distinguishing Marks (2014): The first Hidden Falls season reaches its concluding revelations as the town’s secrets finally come into clearer focus.

Hidden Falls Collected Editions

Later editions gather the serial into larger parts. These are not additional story steps if you already read the 13 episodes.

1. The Disappearance (2015): A collected opening section of Hidden Falls that begins the Ted Quinn mystery and gathers the earliest serial material.
2. The Fallout (2015): A later collected section showing how Ted’s disappearance affects the town beyond the first shock.
3. The Investigation (2015): A collected middle section focused more heavily on the search, clues, and community consequences.
4. The Storm (2015): A later collected section where pressure intensifies and the mystery moves toward its decisive stage.
5. The Homecoming (2015): The final collected section brings the Hidden Falls season toward resolution.
6. Hidden Falls: The Complete First Season (2016/2017, date varies by listing): A full collected edition of the 13-part serial, best used instead of the individual episodes rather than after them.

Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries by Olivia Newport

Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries is a multi-author Guideposts series. Olivia Newport did not write every book, but she contributed several entries. These can be read with the larger series, but Newport-only readers can treat them as supplemental cozy mysteries.

1. Peace Like a River (2015): Cheryl Cooper wrestles with Valentine’s Day, friendship, and community concern while another Sugarcreek mystery tests her instincts.
2. No Time for Trouble (2016): During Sugarcreek’s Ohio Swiss Festival, vandalism around the town’s cuckoo clock pulls Cheryl and Naomi into another local mystery.
3. Digging Up Doubts (2017): Cheryl investigates strange digging on Levi Miller’s land and must decide whether a new sleuthing partner can be trusted.

Tree of Life Books in Order

Tree of Life is Newport’s later mystery series about genealogy, family history, and present-day healing. Read this series in order because Jillian and Nolan’s work and relationship develop across the books.

1. The Inn at Hidden Run (2019): Genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy and her father Nolan help untangle a woman’s mysterious family history in Canyon Mines, Colorado.
2. In the Cradle Lies (2019): A new genealogy case connects the present to painful family patterns, showing how inherited stories can shape current choices.
3. When I Meet You (2020): Jillian and Nolan investigate another family-history puzzle where artifacts, identity, and memory connect past lives to present questions.
4. What You Said to Me (2020): The series continues with a dual-timeline story involving family secrets, heritage, and the cost of what is spoken or left unsaid.
5. Now That I Know You (2021): A follow-up Tree of Life novel returns to Jillian, Nolan, and Canyon Mines for another genealogy mystery shaped by identity and belonging.

Standalone and Christmas Books

These books sit outside the main numbered series or collect shorter seasonal fiction.

1. Colors of Christmas (2017): A two-story Christmas collection, including Christmas in Gold and Christmas in Blue, focused on grief, healing, memory, and renewed hope during the holiday season.
2. Christmas in Gold (2017): One of the Colors of Christmas stories, centered on older grief, memory, and the way Christmas can reopen sorrow while still offering hope.
3. Christmas in Blue (2017): One of the Colors of Christmas stories, following Angela as she tries to avoid Christmas after loss but is pulled into a community celebration.
4. Hidden Falls (2016/2017, date varies by edition): A collected or reissued form of the Hidden Falls serial, best treated as a format choice rather than a separate standalone novel.

Anthologies and Multi-Author Collections

These are optional. Read them after the main novels unless you are collecting every Olivia Newport appearance.

1. The Westward Christmas Brides Collection (2014): A multi-author historical romance anthology featuring Newport’s story Snow Song, best read as optional Christmas or anthology material.
2. A Plain and Sweet Christmas Romance Collection (2018): A multi-author collection of Christmas romances involving Plain communities, best treated as seasonal supplemental reading.
3. The Amish Turns of Time Trilogy (2016): An omnibus gathering the first three Amish Turns of Time novels, useful if you want Wonderful Lonesome, Meek and Mild, and Brightest and Best in one volume.
4. Valley of Choice Trilogy (date varies by listing): A collected edition of Accidentally Amish, In Plain View, and Taken for English, not an extra story in the sequence.
5. Tree of Life Set (2024): A collected Tree of Life edition, useful for convenience rather than a new reading-order step.

Olivia Newport Publication Order

This is the best full-catalogue route for completists.

1. The Pursuit of Lucy Banning (2012): Lucy’s Gilded Age Chicago world becomes unstable when duty, education, and love pull her away from the life planned for her.
2. Accidentally Amish (2012): Annie Friesen’s modern life collides with Amish identity and family history.
3. The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow (2013): Charlotte must protect her secret while serving inside a wealthy Chicago household.
4. In Plain View (2013): Annie’s ties to Amish life grow more serious as romance and belonging become harder to separate.
5. The Invention of Sarah Cummings (2013): Sarah tries to move beyond domestic service, but reinvention comes with moral and romantic consequences.
6. Ordinary Secrets (2013): Hidden Falls begins with Ted Quinn’s disappearance and the first signs of a larger town mystery.
7. Losing Quinn (2014): Ted Quinn’s absence deepens the uncertainty around Hidden Falls.
8. A Town in Trouble (2014): The serial expands from one missing man to a town under pressure.
9. Unexpected Hero (2014): A surprising figure becomes important as the mystery continues.
10. The Mayor’s Quandary (2014): Local leadership is pulled into the consequences of the Hidden Falls crisis.
11. No Time for Answers (2014): The search for truth becomes more urgent.
12. Yesterday’s Promise (2014): The past begins to explain more of the present mystery.
13. All You Need to Know (2014): Hidden Falls residents discover that partial knowledge can be dangerous.
14. A Fair Refuge (2014): The town’s need for shelter and trust becomes central.
15. One Familiar Tune (2014): A familiar connection becomes meaningful in the mystery.
16. When Memory Came (2014): Memory reshapes the investigation and the town’s understanding of itself.
17. The Groundskeeper Remembered (2014): A remembered detail sharpens the path toward resolution.
18. Distinguishing Marks (2014): The Hidden Falls serial reaches its first-season conclusion.
19. Taken for English (2014): The Valley of Choice trilogy concludes Annie’s major questions about faith, love, and belonging.
20. Wonderful Lonesome (2014): Amish Turns of Time begins with early twentieth-century Amish isolation and endurance.
21. The Westward Christmas Brides Collection (2014): Newport contributes Snow Song to this multi-author historical Christmas romance anthology.
22. Peace Like a River (2015): Newport contributes a Sugarcreek Amish mystery involving Cheryl Cooper and Valentine’s Day concerns.
23. Meek and Mild (2015): Amish schooling and conscience drive the second Amish Turns of Time novel.
24. Brightest and Best (2015): A schoolhouse crisis puts Amish education and community under pressure.
25. The Disappearance (2015): A collected Hidden Falls section begins the re-release format of the serial.
26. The Fallout (2015): The Hidden Falls collected format continues with the town reacting to the disappearance.
27. The Investigation (2015): The collected Hidden Falls edition moves deeper into the mystery.
28. The Storm (2015): The collected Hidden Falls format intensifies the pressure.
29. The Homecoming (2015): The collected Hidden Falls edition brings the season toward closure.
30. Hope in the Land (2016): Amish Turns of Time moves into New Deal-era pressure on Amish farming and community life.
31. No Time for Trouble (2016): Newport’s Sugarcreek Amish mystery contribution turns festival vandalism into a community investigation.
32. The Amish Turns of Time Trilogy (2016): An omnibus of the first three Amish Turns of Time novels.
33. Gladden the Heart (2017): Revival fervor tests Amish tradition, family, and spiritual identity.
34. Colors of Christmas (2017): Two contemporary Christmas stories explore grief, memory, community, and hope.
35. Hidden Falls: The Complete First Season (2017): A complete collected edition of the Hidden Falls serial.
36. Digging Up Doubts (2017): Newport’s later Sugarcreek Amish mystery contribution follows Cheryl into a strange case of disturbed farmland.
37. A Plain and Sweet Christmas Romance Collection (2018): A multi-author seasonal collection involving Plain communities and Christmas romance.
38. The Inn at Hidden Run (2019): Tree of Life begins with a genealogy mystery in Canyon Mines, Colorado.
39. In the Cradle Lies (2019): Jillian and Nolan investigate another family-history case with present-day emotional consequences.
40. When I Meet You (2020): A new Tree of Life case connects artifacts, identity, and buried family history.
41. What You Said to Me (2020): The genealogy-mystery series continues with a story about heritage and the weight of what families say or conceal.
42. Now That I Know You (2021): The fifth Tree of Life book returns to Canyon Mines for another family-history mystery.
43. Tree of Life Set (2024): A collected edition of Tree of Life material, not a new story.

Recommended Olivia Newport Reading Order

This order keeps the most approachable series first, then moves into the longer serial and supplemental mysteries.

1. Accidentally Amish (2012): Begin here for the clearest mix of modern life, Amish identity, romance, faith, and family history.
2. In Plain View (2013): Continue Annie’s story as the emotional and cultural stakes deepen.
3. Taken for English (2014): Finish Valley of Choice before moving to another Newport series.
4. The Pursuit of Lucy Banning (2012): Shift into historical Chicago and Newport’s Avenue of Dreams world.
5. The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow (2013): Continue the historical setting through a lower-class heroine with a dangerous secret.
6. The Invention of Sarah Cummings (2013): Complete Avenue of Dreams with a story about ambition and reinvention.
7. Wonderful Lonesome (2014): Begin Amish Turns of Time for Newport’s historical Amish branch.
8. Meek and Mild (2015): Continue with the school-and-conscience conflict.
9. Brightest and Best (2015): Read next because it keeps education and community pressure at the center.
10. Hope in the Land (2016): Move into the New Deal-era Amish story.
11. Gladden the Heart (2017): Finish Amish Turns of Time with the revival-centered conflict.
12. The Inn at Hidden Run (2019): Start Tree of Life once you want genealogy mystery and dual timelines.
13. In the Cradle Lies (2019): Continue Jillian and Nolan’s family-history work.
14. When I Meet You (2020): Read next for another past-present mystery.
15. What You Said to Me (2020): Continue the genealogy arc with a heritage-focused story.
16. Now That I Know You (2021): Finish the current Tree of Life sequence.
17. Ordinary Secrets (2013): Begin Hidden Falls only when you are ready for a serial format.
18. Losing Quinn (2014): Continue the 13-part mystery directly.
19. A Town in Trouble (2014): Stay with the town as the mystery expands.
20. Unexpected Hero (2014): Read next for the next stage of the town’s response.
21. The Mayor’s Quandary (2014): Continue the civic-pressure strand.
22. No Time for Answers (2014): Keep reading as the search intensifies.
23. Yesterday’s Promise (2014): Move into the past-facing portion of the serial.
24. All You Need to Know (2014): Continue through the town’s secrets.
25. A Fair Refuge (2014): Read next for the shelter-and-trust stage.
26. One Familiar Tune (2014): Continue as familiar clues become important.
27. When Memory Came (2014): Stay with the serial as memory reshapes the case.
28. The Groundskeeper Remembered (2014): Read near the end of the season.
29. Distinguishing Marks (2014): Finish the Hidden Falls serial here.
30. Colors of Christmas (2017): Add this after the main series if you want seasonal contemporary fiction.
31. Peace Like a River (2015): Read Newport’s Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries entries as optional cozy-mystery material.
32. No Time for Trouble (2016): Continue the Sugarcreek side reading.
33. Digging Up Doubts (2017): Finish Newport’s Sugarcreek contributions.

Chronological Reading Notes

A strict in-world chronology is not useful for Olivia Newport’s whole catalogue because the series are separate.

Use these continuity rules instead:

1. For Valley of Choice: read Accidentally Amish, then In Plain View, then Taken for English.
2. For Avenue of Dreams: read The Pursuit of Lucy Banning, then The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow, then The Invention of Sarah Cummings.
3. For Amish Turns of Time: read the five books in publication order.
4. For Hidden Falls: read the 13 episodes in order, or use the collected editions instead.
5. For Tree of Life: read the five books in order because Jillian and Nolan’s work and relationships carry across the series.
6. For Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries: Newport’s entries are part of a larger multi-author series, so read them as optional side material unless you are following the full Sugarcreek line.

Latest Olivia Newport Book

The latest confirmed Olivia Newport novel is Now That I Know You (2021), the fifth Tree of Life book.

The latest later catalogue item I found is Tree of Life Set (2024), which is a collection rather than a new novel.

As of May 9, 2026, I did not find a reliably confirmed upcoming Olivia Newport novel.

Do You Need to Read Olivia Newport’s Books in Order?

Yes, within each series.

You should read Valley of Choice, Avenue of Dreams, Amish Turns of Time, Hidden Falls, and Tree of Life in order.

You do not need to read all of her series before starting another. Each branch has its own continuity.

Best Olivia Newport Book to Start With

1. Start with Accidentally Amish if you want Amish and contemporary Christian fiction.
2. Start with The Pursuit of Lucy Banning if you want historical fiction.
3. Start with Wonderful Lonesome if you want historical Amish fiction.
4. Start with The Inn at Hidden Run if you want genealogy mystery.
5. Start with Colors of Christmas if you want a seasonal standalone.

FAQ

What was Olivia Newport’s first book?

Her first major novel listing is The Pursuit of Lucy Banning (2012), and Accidentally Amish (2012) also appeared that same year.

Is Valley of Choice connected to Amish Turns of Time?

No. Both involve Amish themes, but they are separate series with different settings and storylines.

Should Hidden Falls be read as 13 books or 5 collected parts?

Either format works. Do not read both unless you want to compare editions, because the collected parts repackage the serial.

What is Tree of Life about?

Tree of Life follows genealogy work, family history, and present-day mysteries connected to inherited stories and hidden truths.

Did Olivia Newport write all the Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries?

No. Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries is a multi-author series. Newport contributed selected entries, including Peace Like a River, No Time for Trouble, and Digging Up Doubts.

Is Colors of Christmas part of a series?

No. It is a two-story Christmas collection and can be read on its own.

What is Olivia Newport’s newest novel?

The newest confirmed novel is Now That I Know You (2021).

Conclusion

Olivia Newport’s books work best when separated by series. Start with Accidentally Amish for contemporary Amish fiction, The Pursuit of Lucy Banning for historical Chicago fiction, Wonderful Lonesome for historical Amish fiction, or The Inn at Hidden Run for genealogy mystery.

For most readers, the best path is Valley of Choice, then Avenue of Dreams, then Amish Turns of Time, then Tree of Life. Add Hidden Falls when you want a serialized small-town mystery.