Elizabeth O'Roark Books in Order
Browse Elizabeth O'Roark books in order, from The Devils to Parallel, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy ideas on where to start.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
Undertow
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2013
Maura seems to have her future mapped out until Nate, her childhood best friend and first love, comes home. His return pulls old loyalties, buried secrets, and the life she thought she wanted into question.
Waking Olivia
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2016
Coach Will Langstrom does not need the chaos Olivia Finnegan brings to his struggling track team. But the more he sees beneath her anger and secrets, the more impossible it becomes to stay distant.
Drowning Erin
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2017
Erin is about to marry the safe choice when Brendan Langstrom, her first love and current nemesis, comes back into her life. Old feelings and hard truths turn a wedding countdown into a reckoning.
No One But Us
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2018
Elle heads off for a summer with her best friend and finds herself falling for the one man she has always been off-limits to, James. Attraction, loyalty, and a buried family secret make the season far messier than either expects.
Across Time
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2019
Amelie Besson is thrown into pre-war France, where survival depends on the sharp-tongued vineyard owner Henri Durand. As war closes in, their growing bond forces her to question which life, and which time, she truly wants.
Intersect
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2019
After the shocking end of Parallel, Quinn and Nick dig deeper into the force tying their lives together. The answers only raise the stakes, and someone with her own agenda is determined to tear them apart again.
Parallel
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2019
Quinn has dreamed of Nick Reilly for years, so meeting him in real life just before her wedding feels impossible. As the two uncover a connection that stretches beyond ordinary memory, desire and danger rise together.
Across Eternity
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2020
Separated after the events of Across Time, Amelie and Henri face war, prophecy, and impossible choices on opposite sides of time. It's a sweeping, emotional finale that asks what love can survive.
A Deal With The Devil
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2021
Struggling writer Tali takes a temporary job as assistant to Hayes Flynn, a brilliant British plastic surgeon with a terrible reputation. Their banter is sharp, but the more she sees of him, the harder it is to keep things strictly professional.
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2022
When Drew joins her ex-boyfriend's family vacation in Hawaii, she ends up stuck with his older brother Joshua, a doctor who has never liked her. Paradise gets complicated fast as old judgments crack and new feelings take over.
The Devil Gets His Due
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2022
Keeley wakes up from a drunken Vegas disaster married to her nemesis, Graham Tate, then discovers she's pregnant. Moving in together until the baby arrives turns a mistake into a very real test of love.
The Devil You Know
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2022
Gemma loathes fellow lawyer Ben Tate, who seems to embody everything she fights against at work. A career-making case forces them together, and their rivalry starts tipping into something far harder to resist.
The Summer I Saved You
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2023
Lucie reconnects with Caleb, the boy from next door she has loved since childhood, when both of their lives are fraying. His isolation, her children, and the weight of the past turn a summer reunion into something bigger.
The Summer We Fell
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2023
Years after a devastating summer, Juliet is pulled back to the place where everything changed, including her connection to Luke, her boyfriend's best friend. Old grief and unfinished desire make the reunion impossible to ignore.
The Priest
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2024
This companion novella returns to the world of the Parallel books for a forbidden romance between Marie and Father Edouard. Set against the same looming tensions, it adds another intimate thread to the larger story.
The Summer I Destroyed You
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2024
Emerson arrives in Elliott Springs hungry for revenge, not romance, and Liam is exactly the sort of obstacle she does not need. But as he learns what shaped her anger, their battle starts turning into something much more intimate.
The Summer I First Saw You
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2024
Daisy blackmails her way into spending the summer with a man who has always been off-limits, and the age gap between them is only part of the problem. What begins as friction soon turns tender, funny, and risky.
The Summer You Found Me
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2024
Kate turns to Beck, her husband's best friend, at the worst possible moment, and the closeness between them starts to feel dangerous. It's a messy, emotional story about finding clarity when your life is already falling apart.
My Favorite Bad Decision
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2025
A miserable trek up Kilimanjaro gets worse when a woman has to make the climb with Miller West, her family's sworn enemy. Forced proximity, old history, and thin air make hating him much harder than planned.
My Favorite Fake Romance
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2025
Dumped on the eve of her best friend's wedding, Dr. Easton Walsh accepts a fake-dating lifeline from Elijah Cabot, the man who broke her heart years ago. A road trip, a meddling grandmother, and real feelings quickly blur the plan.
My Favorite Lost Cause
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2025
When Maren's marriage starts collapsing, she escapes to South Carolina to help her stepbrother Charlie restore the crumbling estate he has inherited. Old tension, family wounds, and the house's eerie history push them toward dangerous territory.
Good at Being Alive
by Elizabeth O'Roark
2026
After a family tragedy leaves Bex in charge of a failing travel agency, she and her father's British business partner Theo must fake a honeymoon for a reality show. Their staged romance across Europe quickly stops feeling fake.
Where should I start?
If you want witty, grumpy romances: A Deal With The Devil → The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea → The Devil You Know
If you want her most emotional, angsty reads: Waking Olivia → The Summer We Fell → Drowning Erin
If you want time-bending romance: Parallel → Intersect → Across Time → Across Eternity
If you want newer interconnected standalones: My Favorite Bad Decision → My Favorite Lost Cause → My Favorite Fake Romance
Author bio
Elizabeth O'Roark lives in Washington, D.C., with her three kids, and the path that got her to romance novels is a little less tidy than most fictional meet-cutes. Before writing fiction full time, she worked as a medical writer and as a therapist. That mix, technical on one side and deeply human on the other, helps explain why her books can be funny, messy, and emotionally sharp all at once.
She knows how people talk when they're trying not to say the real thing.
O'Roark published her first novel, Undertow, in 2013. From there she built a backlist that moved easily between college-set romance, workplace enemies-to-lovers stories, beach-town angst, and time-slip love stories. That range is part of the fun with her books. You can start with a banter-heavy office romance and wind up in pre-war France without ever feeling like you've left the same storyteller behind.
A lot of readers first latch onto books like Waking Olivia and Drowning Erin, where attraction comes bundled with bad timing, family baggage, and people who do not know how to ask for help. Her characters are often competent on the outside and a wreck underneath. Coaches, doctors, lawyers, assistants, siblings, exes, old crushes. She likes to drop them into situations where the sensible choice is obvious, then patiently shows why the heart has other plans.
She likes impossible setups, and she's very good at making them feel lived in.
That knack is especially clear in A Deal With The Devil, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and The Devil You Know. On paper, these are glossy premises: a temp assistant and her arrogant British boss, a Hawaiian trip with an ex and his brother, two rival lawyers forced to work together. In practice, the books are less about the trope than about the people inside it. The jokes land, the chemistry is there, but so is the awkwardness, grief, pride, and fear that keep adults from saying what they want.
She also writes bigger-concept romance. The Parallel books blend dreams, time slips, and questions of fate with a love story that keeps pulling characters back toward each other. Then Across Time and Across Eternity open that world even further through Amelie and Henri, set against France on the edge of war. On the other end of the shelf, The Summer We Fell and the other Summer novels lean hard into coastal heat, old wounds, and the kind of secrets that can poison an entire vacation house.
Her newer books show she still likes to switch things up. My Favorite Bad Decision turns a climb up Kilimanjaro into forced proximity. My Favorite Lost Cause mixes romance with a crumbling Southern estate and a strong gothic streak. And Good at Being Alive, scheduled for June 16, 2026, follows a fake honeymoon across Europe and marks her traditional publishing debut. Even when the settings change, her interests stay pretty steady: wounded people, sharp banter, and love stories that ask what happens after life goes sideways.
Away from the page, her official bio is refreshingly ungrand. She says she has a bunch of degrees she doesn't use, spends time with her now-teenage kids, argues about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and keeps telling people to read The Hating Game. That sounds about right. Her books have the same mix of sincerity, wit, and zero patience for pretension.
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