Lynne Hinton Books in Order

When five women at Hope Springs Community Church team up to make a cookbook, the project opens old wounds and deepens unexpected friendships. Their recipes and stories carry them through grief, doubt, and change.

In Pleasant Cross, North Carolina, Tessa Ivy grows up in a family of women gifted, and burdened, with uncanny ways of knowing. As her own visions sharpen, buried secrets and first love force her to face what her family has kept hidden.

Back in Hope Springs, the cookbook committee's friendship is tested by illness, grief, and Charlotte's crisis of faith. As Margaret fights breast cancer and Jessie questions her future, the women learn that care takes work.

The women of Hope Springs Community Church face another round of change as Margaret awaits life-changing medical news and Charlotte struggles with her own path. Their friendships are steady, but not simple, as one farewell reshapes the group.

After her husband O.T. dies, Jean Clover is pushed back toward the mountain life she thought she had left behind. A startling discovery and an unlikely friendship force her to rethink the story of her own life.

Alice's mother vanished when Alice was four, so her sudden return feels more shocking than comforting. As old wounds reopen, Alice has to decide whether this unexpected reunion is grace, trouble, or both.

With Margaret's cancer back, her friends pile into a van for a Christmas road trip to Texas and a reunion with Charlotte. The journey is messy, funny, and full of the loyalty that keeps Hope Springs together.

During an all-night stay in a psychiatric facility, librarian Andreas Hackett begins talking through a wall to a suicidal inmate named Lathin. Their confessions turn into an uneasy friendship that opens a path toward forgiveness and release.

After a hard year, the Hope Springs women throw themselves into weddings, matchmaking, and second chances. Charlotte's future, Jessie's marriage, and a few family surprises turn this return visit into a story about love that will not sit still.

Father George Morris arrives in Pie Town, New Mexico, for his first parish and picks up a troubled hitchhiker named Trina on the way. Their arrival unsettles the town and pushes its people toward hard choices about grace, change, and community.

Pie Town pulls together when wounded veteran Raymond Twinhorse disappears and the authorities target his family. As Trina worries about love, safety, and the future, the town decides how far it will go for its own.

Benedictine nun Sister Eve returns to Madrid, New Mexico, to help her father recover from surgery and ends up helping with a murder case. Solving it stirs old instincts and forces her to question whether detective work is temptation or calling.

While taking leave from the convent and working with her father, Sister Eve learns her difficult sister Dorisanne has vanished. The search leads Eve to Las Vegas, where family secrets and danger make the case painfully personal.

When a researcher is poisoned and rare papers about the Blue Nun disappear, Sister Eve digs into the case to clear a friend. The mystery reaches into church history and pushes Eve closer to a life-changing choice.

At a crossroads in her life, a newly single woman climbs high into a loblolly pine and refuses to come down. From her perch, she faces grief, family, developers, and a small town that cannot stop watching.

Emma Troxler's job, marriage, and family life are all straining at the edges. As she confronts loss, loneliness, and the stories she tells herself, she begins the harder work of loosening her grip and opening her heart.

When Willis Lemmons turns up bloody behind the O Biscuit Bakery and his brother is found stabbed to death, Lorna and Buford know the town is in trouble. To save Willis, they have to find the real killer first.