Ella Maise Books in Order

If you love celebrity romances and fake relationships: To Love Jason Thorn → To Hate Adam Connor
If you want a slow burn marriage of convenience: Marriage for One
If you like college sports romance with big feelings: The Hardest Fall
If you prefer angsty, emotional duets: Lost Prelude → Lost Heartbeats
If you’re curious about her newest office romance: Charlie, Love and Cliches

Ella Maise writes contemporary romances that lean into slow burn tension, big feelings and a steady mix of humor and heat. Her stories follow ordinary women who get tangled up with movie stars, football players, billionaires and grumpy lawyers, yet always keep their own hearts at the center of the story.

She has talked often about how reading let her escape real life for a while, and she wants her own books to offer that same small bit of magic, the kind that quiets your worries and leaves you smiling at the page.

She began publishing independently in the mid 2010s, starting with early titles like I'm Yours and the Alexander and Maya duet, Lost Prelude and Lost Heartbeats. Those books announced what would become her signature approach, pairing intense emotion and grief with sharp banter, sensual chemistry and characters who are not always polished but always trying their best.

Many readers first find her through her celebrity romances. In To Love Jason Thorn, a shy writer who once crushed on her brother's best friend discovers that the Hollywood bad boy attached to her book adaptation is the same boy who broke her teenage heart. To Hate Adam Connor picks up with her best friend Lucy, who clashes with the newly divorced actor next door while slowly falling for him and his young son.

Those books helped grow her audience around the world, but The Hardest Fall pushed her even further. The college romance between awkward photographer Zoe Clarke and star wide receiver Dylan Reed became a Washington Post bestseller, and showed how comfortable Maise is writing long, slow build friendships that tip into love only after both people have done some real work on themselves.

Marriage for One shifted her focus to a quieter, adult world of contracts, coffee shops and complicated families. Rose, a woman determined to open her own cafe, and Jack, the reserved lawyer who offers her a marriage of convenience, fall for each other in cramped New York apartments and boardrooms instead of stadiums or film sets. The book's patient pacing and steady emotional pay off have turned it into a word of mouth favorite.

More recently she has returned to office life and second chances with Charlie, Love and Clichés, where a people pleasing heroine is finally forced to put herself first when the man who once stood her up reappears as her new boss. Alongside her backlist, this newer work has helped her become an international bestseller and a familiar name to romance readers on social media.

For all the fame and screen-ready premises, her focus stays on how love actually feels in the small, everyday moments.

Behind the scenes, she has written candidly about the strain that publishing and health problems can bring, including a period around 2017 when serious medical issues and brain surgery pulled her away from writing for a while. She describes the sleepless nights, long revisions and anxiety of each release, yet also compares the act of writing to that rush you get from a really good book, or hugging someone you have missed for too long.

Taken together, her novels form a kind of ongoing conversation about trust, vulnerability and second chances. Whether you start with a celebrity fake marriage, a college football romance or an anguished duet about grief, you can expect sharp dialogue, slow unfolding attraction and heroines who eventually claim both their love stories and their own lives.