Below is the complete list of Rachel Hanna books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of January Cove Books
Publication Order of Jubilee Books
Publication Order of The Lowcountry Ladies Club Books
Publication Order of New Beginnings Books
Publication Order of South Carolina Sunsets Books
Publication Order of Sweet Tea B&B Books
Publication Order of Waverly Lane Books
Publication Order of Whiskey Ridge Books
Publication Order of Wisteria Island Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books
- War Woman (2013)
War Woman was published in 2013 and is listed as book #1 in the Short Stories/Novellas series. - Unbreakable (2013)
Published in 2013, Unbreakable is listed as book #2 in the Short Stories/Novellas series. - One More Try (2014)
One More Try is a 2014 release and appears as book #3 in the Short Stories/Novellas series. 
About Rachel Hanna
Rachel Hanna is an American author of clean Southern romance and women’s fiction, best known for warm, community-centered series set in coastal towns, mountain retreats, inns, beach houses, and small fictional communities where friendship and family matter as much as romance. Her official author material describes her as a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose books focus on “real people,” complicated but lovable characters, and stories set largely in the South, especially South Carolina and Georgia.
Hanna’s bibliography is broad and highly series-driven. Rather than building her career around one heroine or one continuous saga, she has created several inviting fictional settings, each with its own emotional atmosphere. January Cove offers clean romance on the Georgia coast. South Carolina Sunsets, her flagship beach-set women’s fiction series, follows characters rebuilding their lives in and around the fictional Lowcountry town of Seagrove. Sweet Tea B&B and Whiskey Ridge lean more toward mountain settings, while Wisteria Island adds a quirky coastal retirement-island tone. The Jubilee books bring a cozy Blue Ridge Mountain feeling, and later series such as Waverly Lane and The Lowcountry Ladies Club continue her interest in friendship, second chances, and women at turning points.
Her books are often described as clean or “just kisses” romance, which is central to her readership. The appeal is not erotic intensity or dark romantic conflict, but emotional comfort, gentle chemistry, rediscovered hope, and characters who are old enough to have regrets, responsibilities, children, ex-spouses, aging parents, grief, or practical worries. Hanna frequently writes about people rebuilding after divorce, widowhood, disappointment, career change, family conflict, or a long period of putting everyone else first.
The South Carolina Sunsets series is especially important to her reputation. Beginning with The Beach House, it follows Julie and a growing circle of friends and family through new beginnings, weddings, holidays, inn life, beach-town community, and the slow repair of a life after betrayal. The series works because Seagrove feels like a place readers return to for continuity: familiar businesses, recurring relationships, multigenerational bonds, and the pleasure of seeing one character’s background story become another character’s main arc.
January Cove, another major early series, is more directly romance-centered and set in a small beach town in Georgia. Hanna’s own series page describes the books as clean and wholesome romance, with entries that can be read as standalones. That standalone-friendly structure is one reason her catalogue is accessible despite its size. Readers can begin with a setting that appeals to them—coastal, mountain, holiday, book-club, inn, or small-town romance—without needing to master a complicated universe.
Her standalones show similar emotional concerns in more contained form. The Bucket List centers on grief, friendship, and the promise to live differently after loss. Back to Us uses second-chance romance and the pull of the past. The Baking Games brings a lighter rom-com premise through competition and food, while books such as The Midlife Birthday Club and The Unpolished Life of Eleanor Whitfield reflect Hanna’s interest in women facing reinvention beyond the usual early-adulthood romance frame. Her official reading-order page notes that she has published more than fifty books across multiple series since 2012.
Rachel Hanna’s strength lies in emotional hospitality. Her books invite readers into communities where people may be hurt, stubborn, embarrassed, lonely, or afraid to begin again, but rarely beyond the reach of friendship, forgiveness, and practical kindness. Across beach houses, inns, mountain towns, book clubs, and Southern porches, she writes comfort fiction built around one steady promise: life can still become softer, fuller, and more loving than the season that broke it.