Lorana Hoopes

Lorana Hoopes is an American romance, Christian, and children’s author. Originally a resident of Texas, she now lives in Pacific Northwest with her husband and their three children. When not writing pages for her next book, you will find Lorana singing/acting or practicing kickboxing at her local gym.

The best place to start is the Heartbeats series, the earliest of Lorana Hoopes's multi-book series: it opens with Where It All Began (2016) and runs to 5 books across 2016–2018, ending with A Past Forgiven (2018). Lorana Hoopes's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lorana Hoopes has 97 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2016 and 2023. 91 of them belong to 13 named series — the largest being The Men of Fire Beach series with 9 books — and 6 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. Lorana Hoopes's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Heartbeats (2016–2018, 5 books), Angry Fowl (2016, 3 books) and The Wishing Stone (2017–2020, 5 books), plus 9 more.

This guide splits Lorana Hoopes's 97 books into 13 named series and 6 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Men of Fire Beach (9 books, 2019–2023); Blushing Brides (9 books, 2019–2020); Sweet Billionaires (6 books, 2018–2020); Texas Tornados (6 books, 2019–2021); Heartbeats (5 books, 2016–2018), plus 8 further series.