Below is the complete list of Lynette Eason’s Tanner Hollow books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Tanner Hollow Books
About Tanner Hollow
Lynette Eason’s Tanner Hollow series is a four-story Christian romantic-suspense collection set in and around the small community of Tanner Hollow, North Carolina. The sequence consists of Lethal Homecoming, Lethal Conspiracy, Lethal Secrets, and Lethal Agenda, all originally published as novellas before being collected in Protecting Tanner Hollow. Each story follows a different central couple and criminal threat, while recurring characters, family connections, and the shared setting give the collection continuity.
Lethal Homecoming follows Kallie Ainsworth as she returns to Tanner Hollow for the wedding of her foster sister. Coming home should mean reconnecting with people from her past, but an attack makes it clear that someone wants her dead. Detective Nolan Tanner, a man with whom Kallie shares unresolved history, becomes involved in protecting her and discovering why she has become a target.
The story establishes a pattern Eason uses throughout the collection. Tanner Hollow may appear to offer the security of a familiar small town, but knowing the community does not necessarily mean knowing whom to trust. Old relationships can provide protection, yet they can also conceal motives and secrets that only become visible once violence forces them into the open.
Lethal Conspiracy shifts the focus to Lillian Maloney, who survives an attempt on her life and finds herself relying on firefighter Jason Tanner. The apparent attack raises questions about who would benefit from Lillian’s death and whether the danger is connected to circumstances she has not fully understood. Jason’s involvement brings another member of the Tanner circle into the foreground while allowing characters from the wider community to remain connected to the action.
Lethal Secrets centers on Honor McBride, a mother whose attempt to create stability for her family is disrupted when danger follows her to Tanner Hollow. Eli Murphy becomes an important part of her efforts to determine what is happening and keep those she loves safe. As in the other stories, Eason makes the threat personal rather than treating the protagonists as detached investigators assigned to an unfamiliar crime.
The final novella, Lethal Agenda, follows Claire Montgomery and Detective Derek St. John. Derek provides a notable connection to Eason’s Blue Justice series, where the St. John family forms the center of a larger law-enforcement saga. His appearance gives Tanner Hollow a place within Eason’s broader network of romantic-suspense characters rather than leaving the collection completely isolated from her other work.
Because the stories are novellas, the pacing is tighter than in Eason’s full-length series. Threats emerge quickly, investigations escalate with little downtime, and romantic histories often already exist before the opening pages. Second chances, previous friendships, and established attraction allow Eason to develop believable emotional stakes within the shorter format without requiring every relationship to begin between strangers.
Faith remains part of the characters’ responses to fear and uncertainty, particularly when circumstances expose the limits of their ability to protect themselves or the people they love. The stories repeatedly pair practical action with questions of trust, forgiveness, and reliance on others.
Tanner Hollow ultimately works as a small-town romantic-suspense collection rather than one continuous four-part mystery. Each story resolves its own danger and romance, but reading the novellas in order preserves the recurring relationships and community connections. Across all four, Eason turns a place associated with home and familiarity into a setting where old connections can be both the source of danger and the reason her characters survive it.