Dakota Born

Its place in Dakota

Dakota Born is book 1 in the Dakota series. It is followed by Dakota Home. See the full Dakota reading order.

The Dakota series follows the Muellers, a farming family in the small, struggling town of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, as they and their neighbors work to keep their community alive against the economic pressures emptying out small prairie towns across the Midwest. Lily and Sarah Bonner, sisters trying to save their late aunt's hardware store, anchor the early books, while Buffalo Valley itself -- its family farms, its one struggling main street, its close-knit but dwindling population -- functions almost as a…