Lynette Eason is an author of Christian fiction novels within the inspirational romantic suspense genre; she has won various awards for her writing and been on the ECPA and CBA bestseller lists and published nearly fifty books.
[1] Lynette Eason grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, where she became a Christian at age eight through the influence of her parents and the Sunday school teachers at Northgate Baptist Church.
[2] An avid reader as a child, she was influenced by many writers including "Alfred Hitchcock, Carolyn Keene, Agatha Christie, Francine Pascal...Steven King and others.
"[3] As an adult she enjoyed Christian fiction by "Randilyn Collins, Dee Henderson, Shirlee McCoy, Karen Kingsbury, Robert Liparulo, Terri Blackstock and Deborah Raney"[4] She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1989 with a B.A.
[6] Eason and her family were active at New Life Baptist Fellowship Church in Boiling Springs, South Carolina where she served as a Sunday School teacher.