Lin Stepp Books in Order

Vivian Delaney hides from recent trouble in Wears Valley and rents a farmhouse beside camp director Scott Jamison. As her guarded past surfaces, an unexpected bond with a foster child changes everything.

After betrayal shatters her Manhattan life, Jenna Howell escapes to a quiet cabin in Townsend. The Smokies, an elderly friend's stories, and artist Boyce Hart help her imagine a different future.

Social worker Alice Graham promises to protect six newly orphaned siblings, then finds herself fostering all of them. Suddenly short on space, sleep, and certainty, she must build a home while her own heart is tested.

Jilted just before a round of engagement parties, Delia Walker runs to her aunt's cottage near Gatlinburg. There she finds a hidden cousin, an old crush, and enough trouble to force her toward a truer life.

Widowed mother Rosalyn McCreary is barely keeping her shop and family afloat when a chance dance links her to wealthy newcomer Kendrick Lanier. Attraction comes easy, but their past hurts and different worlds do not.

Widowed Grace Conley shocks her family by buying a bed-and-breakfast in Townsend for a second act. Between the inn, her grown children, and charming realtor Jack Teague, her fresh start gets complicated fast.

Zola Devon, who sometimes receives uncanny insight about people, unsettles brooding photographer Spencer Jackson from the start. Their uneasy attraction deepens as old secrets, danger, and questions of trust close in.

Childhood sweethearts Rhea Dean and Carter Layman once dreamed of restoring Laurel Springs together. When widowed Carter returns with his young son, old hurts flare just as the fading resort gets a second chance too.

After years away, Lydia returns to Maggie Valley and the family apple orchard she left behind. Old wounds, grown children, a troubled past, and eerie rumors around the farm make coming home anything but simple.

Bryson City florist Olivia Benton is still rooted in home, family, and her beloved garden. When first love Warner Zachery comes back to town, old feelings rise alongside vandalism and simmering local tensions.

Cut out of the life she expected in Philadelphia, Emily Lamont moves to Gatlinburg to run a small gallery unexpectedly left in her name. There she clashes and connects with Cooper Garrison, a local man with reasons to resent her.

Newly widowed Claire Avery brings her two daughters to a family beach house on Edisto to grieve and regroup. The island's quiet beauty offers comfort, but rebuilding a life of her own will take real courage.

Exhausted editor Mallory Wingate heads to her grandparents' mountain resort after a breakdown and a season of grief. A charming stranger reappears there, but healing is harder when thefts and buried troubles keep disturbing the peace.

Juliette Hollander returns to her grandparents' Tennessee farm after her grandfather's heart attack and finds her life abruptly rerouted. A chance reunion with a mysterious man makes the move even more complicated.

Hurt and unsettled by events up north, Mary Helen Avery goes back to Edisto hoping for clarity. Instead she finds old feelings, old arguments, and J.T. Mikell still very much in her path.

Mary Pat Latham thinks her life is settled until her husband asks for a divorce and everything familiar starts to go. Forced to rethink home, marriage, and purpose, she heads toward an unexpected new chapter.

Rising concert pianist Sarah Katherine Avery, called Suki, finds success is not the life she imagined. A collapse and a harsh shock send her back toward Edisto, where rest, truth, and Andrew Cavanaugh may change her course.

Injured storm chaser Samantha King retreats to Dandridge to recover with family near the lake. Rest is not easy when strong personalities, old grief, and a surprising attraction keep tugging at her.

After her father's death, Burke Deveaux is carrying too much at the family inn and lighthouse on Watch Island. Then Waylon Jenkins returns home, and working side by side stirs old feelings and fresh questions.

Betrayed and heartbroken, Gwen heads home with her three children and wants nothing more to do with Alex. But when he returns to the Lowcountry too, both must face whether trust can be rebuilt.

Annalise Silva travels from Hawaii to Cherokee with her mother's ashes and a promise to learn more about her roots. What begins as a duty becomes a deeper search into heritage, family, and an unsettling romance.

After her father dies, her home is lost, and her business faces eminent domain, Laura O'Dell can hardly imagine another setback. A drastic change of scene may be the only way forward, and maybe the start of something better.

Ella Quinn loses the Boston bookstore she loves just as her plans collapse, then heads to Townsend to help her injured grandmother. Among old family ties and local history, she starts to imagine a different future.

Valerie Merton is fiercely protective of her family's longtime nursery in Cosby, so botanist Patrick McNaughton gets off to a bad start. Their shared love of plants and the Smokies pulls them together, even as secrets push back.