Lavender Tides Books in Order

Lavender Tides moves Colleen Coble to Washington State and gives her another setting with real personality. The books are rooted in the Olympic Peninsula and the lavender-growing country around it, so the atmosphere is softer on the surface than Rock Harbor or Sunset Cove. But only on the surface.

The series begins with The View from Rainshadow Bay, where Shauna is grieving her husband and trying to protect her young son when murder and old secrets close in. Leaving Lavender Tides follows Shauna and Zach into a danger-filled honeymoon. The House at Saltwater Point brings Ellie's missing sister and a Coast Guard intelligence officer into the mix. Secrets at Cedar Cabin broadens the scope again with false identity questions, murder, and a human trafficking thread.

Family secrets drive almost everything here.

That is really the engine of Lavender Tides. People are searching for lost relatives, questioning what they were told as children, or finding that even the people they love have kept crucial pieces back. Coble uses the coastal Washington setting, the lavender fields, the islands, and the cabins to keep the books grounded while the plot keeps twisting.

This series also has a good balance between recurring emotional threads and stand-alone plots. Readers who go in order will get the richest experience, especially with the continuing relationships, but each book still has its own strong central mystery.

If you want Colleen Coble with a Pacific Northwest feel, a lot of hidden history, and suspense that keeps opening into something larger, Lavender Tides is one of her better later series.