Too Long a Stranger

Its place in Women of the West

Too Long a Stranger is book 9 in the Women of the West series. It follows Heart of the Wilderness. It is followed by The Bluebird and the Sparrow. See the full Women of the West reading order.

Women of the West collects twelve standalone novels Janette Oke published in the early 1990s, each centered on a different woman making her way in the 19th-century American or Canadian West -- as a teacher, doctor's wife, mail-order bride, missionary, or homesteader. Unlike Oke's continuing family sagas, the books in Women of the West share no characters or plotlines; each is a complete, self-contained story united only by the series' shared premise of an independent-minded woman meeting the challenges of…