Karen Rose Smith

Karen Rose Smith also writes as Karen Hughes, and Kari Sutherland is best-selling American novelist of romance novels. She was born on 21st December in Pennsylvania, and even though she was the only child in her family, Smith remembers still remembers the bonds of an extended family. She her mother and father lived in with her aunt and grandfather until she was five years of age that’s when her parents built a home next door.

The best place to start is the Finding Mr. Right series, the earliest of Karen Rose Smith's multi-book series: it opens with A Man Worth Loving (1992) and runs to 9 books across 1992–2012, ending with When Mom Meets Dad (2012). Karen Rose Smith's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Karen Rose Smith has 686 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1988 and 2026. 667 of them belong to 48 named series — the largest being the Home on the Ranch series with 67 books — and 19 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Karen Rose Smith's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Finding Mr. Right (1992–2012, 9 books), Virgin Brides (1995–2011, 19 books) and Search For Love (1995–2016, 9 books), plus 37 more.

This guide splits Karen Rose Smith's 686 books into 48 named series and 19 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Home on the Ranch (67 books, 1996–2020); Logan's Legacy (22 books, 2004–2024); Virgin Brides (19 books, 1995–2011); Fortunes of Texas: Reunion (15 books, 2005–2006); Furever Yours (12 books, 2018–2022), plus 43 further series.