Bride Series

Tennessee Bride

In this first novel, set in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee in the 1820s, Bittner's characters spring to life as Emma Simms falls in love with River Joe, a Cherokee-raised frontiersman who must rescue her from an abusive stepfather.

Texas Bride

In 1845, as Texas moves toward statehood, Emma and Joe's daughter Rachael Rivers returns to Austin to teach school, where Brand Selby, the half-Comanche rancher who loves her, must save her from a cruel and crooked Texas Ranger.

Oregon Bride

On a wagon train to Oregon in 1851, Emma and Joe's son Joshua Rivers finds himself captivated by the fiery-haired Marybeth MacKinder, a widowed young mother. But with her brutish brother-in-law intent on claiming her, their road to romance is as rough as the trail west.