Finding Home Books in Order

Finding Home is the outlier in Jen Turano's catalog, and that is part of what makes it interesting. Instead of heading back to the Gilded Age, this series opens in the present day and drops a stressed celebrity into a quiet Ohio community. The tone still has some of Turano's fondness for odd situations and fast-moving complications, but the setting and the emotional shape are different.

As listed here, the series begins with Finding Margo, and that book does most of the work of showing what Turano wanted from this corner of her fiction. Margo Hartman is an international pop star who is exhausted, overmanaged, and desperate to get away. Brock Moore is a sheriff's deputy working his own investigation. When Margo lands in a small Dutch town in Ohio and starts raising questions she cannot answer, the story turns into part romance, part identity mystery, and part suspense novel.

Home is the key word.

This is less about ballroom comedy and more about what happens when someone famous, watched, and carefully packaged suddenly slips into a place where people see something else in her. The Ohio setting matters because it gives the book a slower, more grounded counterweight to Margo's public life. Turano uses that contrast well. The small-town atmosphere and the sense of old secrets under quiet surfaces push the story away from celebrity glitter and toward questions of belonging.

There is still romance, of course. Brock is not just there to ask questions and look stern. He becomes part of Margo's search for answers, and their growing attraction works because both of them are trying to figure out who can be trusted. The suspense side adds real pressure, since someone is clearly willing to hurt people to keep the past from coming into the open.

Do not expect a pure thriller. Turano is still more interested in character chemistry and heartfelt turns than relentless darkness. There are dangerous moments, but the book keeps room for warmth, faith, and the small comic touches that usually follow her into any genre.

If you know Turano mainly from her historical series, this book will feel familiar in some ways and very different in others. Even if no larger run of books followed in the same way readers might have expected, Finding Margo stands well on its own and gives a clear sense of the kind of contemporary story Turano wanted to tell.