Elle Rivers Books In Order

Publication Order of Failure to Thrive Books

Publication Order of Family Business Books

Publication Order of ElleRivers Standalone Novels

Elle Rivers
Elle Rivers lives with her six cats, husband, and son. When she is not busy writing, she can be found staring at a blank document, reading, or making some poorly time jokes that sometimes make it onto her Twitter.

She was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and considers herself to be one of the very few native Nashvillians that does not like country music. She has a bunch of chickens that could not care less about her unless she’s bringing food to them, and cats that fight for the spot on her lap.

Her husband is her romance hero, who endlessly supports her writing endeavors. Her son is the biggest yet most adorable distraction for her.

“Failure to Thrive” is the first novel in the “Failure to Thrive” series and was released in 2021. Riley Emerson is probably the very last person anybody would ever expect to be a nanny. Her life has fallen apart, for starters. Her boyfriend went and cheated on her. She lives with her mother, and she may have a drinking problem.

However Oliver Brian is desperate. Zoe, his daughter, has refused to go to sleep for anybody else in 4 years now and with Oliver’s career he cannot always be there for her. Riley is just supposed to watch Zoe for a single night, however she somehow gets Zoe to bed all on her own. He is so stunned that he offers her a job right there on the spot.

Riley really does need the money, and Oliver needs some time to himself. It is a match made in Heaven, until feelings start to get involved.

This is a stand alone romance novel with the single dad, nanny, and friends to lovers trope.

This is a great depiction of a slow burn romance which will both captivate you and leave you wanting more by the end. It’s easy to fall for Oliver and Riley rather easily while they fall in love and learn what family really is.

“Fakecation” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2022. After Amelia Rogers’ previous relationship ended so badly, she’s managed to avoid dating for five whole years now. And while she is perfectly fine with it, her mom is not. In order to get out of getting set up on her family vacation, she needs to find a date, and quick.

Only person that she knows that is single at the moment is Daniel, her coworker. He is recently divorced, quiet, and not to fond of mixing personal life and business. Amelia figures that he will not only say no but also report her to HR when she asks for this favor from him. She is desperate though, and he is her one and only option.

Daniel Anderson is in a bit of trouble. His wife went and left him for a member of his own family, and they really want to tell people about their relationship. He does not want his previous relationship to get any further undeserving attention, so he needs to look past his ex-wife. He is unsure of how to go about it, up until his co-worker Amelia, comes to him with the perfect solution.

So they strike a deal. Daniel will go to the beach with Amelia and play the part of her new boyfriend, and Amelia, in turn, is going to pretend to date him in the office in order to ensure that people know that Daniel’s gotten over his ex-wife.

Quite the perfect plan. Neither one of them are looking for love, so it should be pretty easy to play the part without actually falling in love. Right?

“Forces of Nature” is the first novel in the “Family Business” series and was released in 2023. Ruth Murray believed that she’d seen the last of Knox Price when she had walked away from him at their high school graduation.

She was ready to be finished with their rivalry, after always coming in second, and make something of herself. However he then went on to create PATH, which is a company that retrofitted cars to self-drive, which cut automobile accidents in half. His name was in everybody’s mouths particularly her parents, who still compare her to him even a decade later. His success is a sore reminder of her own stagnant career.

He mysteriously steps down as the CEO of his company, and she’s hoping that this is going to be the reason that he vanishes from everybody’s minds completely. Up until she walks into her work and sees that he’s the newest executive at her company and her boss technically. All that she can hope for is he does not recall their small rivalry, since he’s now got the power to make her life a living hell.

Knox should really be on top of the world. He created an invention to save lives, made his parents proud, shares his company with his best friend, and has got more money than he knows what to do with. Yet he feels nothing. He feels like a robot just pretending to be human yet never feeling anything. It has taken his life over, so much so, that his best friend suggests he step down and discover a passion in helping another business build something great. As he returns to his hometown, he is content to spend extra time with his parents and work on this new app for this company he does not own.

This is when he sees the woman that he could never forget. Ruth is as hardheaded and feisty as ever, and instead of feeling the emptiness that he has grown used to, his heart starts to beat again right from the minute he sees her. Only problem is that she hates him and he’s unsure of why. The media’s clawing to get more information about him, and a ruthless boss out to fire Ruth for any and all reason, he should really keep away from her. However the long he is around her, the more that he realizes he cannot keep his distance.