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Elyse Douglas Books in Order

Browse Elyse Douglas books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start across her holiday, mystery, and time travel fiction.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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Christmas Ever After

by Elyse Douglas

2012

Still bitter after her fiancé's death, Jennifer Taylor wants nothing to do with Christmas. Then a mysterious woman offers her an adventure in New York City that forces her to face grief, possibility, and the chance to love again.

The Astrologer's Daughter

by Elyse Douglas

2012

Astrologer Joanna Halloran rescues a wealthy politician from a plane crash off the New York coast, and their brief affair echoes for decades. Years later, family secrets and a presidential campaign pull two generations into the fallout.

The Christmas Diary

by Elyse Douglas

2012

On her way to a Christmas wedding, Alice Ferrell gets stranded in a snowstorm and finds an old diary in a B&B. Following its clues forces her to question her future and chase a mystery that could change her life.

Wanting Rita

by Elyse Douglas

2012

Dr. Alan Lincoln returns to his Pennsylvania hometown when his former sweetheart, Rita, is shattered by tragedy. Their reunion stirs old feelings, but ghosts from the past and long-buried secrets threaten any second chance.

A Season for Juliet

by Elyse Douglas

2013

After her divorce and her father's sudden death, Juliet Sinclair returns to Ohio to untangle troubling family secrets. Along the way she meets Paul Lyons, and their growing bond complicates a season already full of grief and change.

Christmas for Juliet

by Elyse Douglas

2013

Juliet Sinclair goes back to Ohio after her father's death, planning to clear his name and uncover the truth about missing money. What she finds is a trail of secrets, a mysterious ex-soldier, and an unexpected path toward love.

The Christmas Town

by Elyse Douglas

2013

Two women stranded in a snowstorm cross a covered bridge and find themselves in a Vermont town in 1943. As they fall for soldiers bound for war, they must choose between returning home and changing both their hearts and futures.

The Christmas Women

by Elyse Douglas

2014

When their beloved drama teacher falls seriously ill, three former friends reunite to recreate their old Christmas show. The project stirs romance, regret, and unfinished dreams as the holiday draws near.

The Christmas Bridge

by Elyse Douglas

2015

Widow Olivia heads to New York before Christmas and agrees to meet the man she loved twenty years earlier. A chance encounter on a bridge forces her to weigh the past against the possibility of a very different future.

The Other Side of Summer

by Elyse Douglas

2015

Joanna Halloran rescues a man from a plane crash and falls into a life-changing summer romance. Twenty-five years later, politics, revenge, and buried truths pull their families back into one another's lives.

The Summer Diary

by Elyse Douglas

2015

After her best friend dies in a plane crash, Keri finds a diary that reveals a secret love affair. Tracking down the man in its pages leads her into grief, mystery, and a surprising chance at happiness.

The Christmas Eve Letter

by Elyse Douglas

2016

Eve Sharland buys an antique lantern and discovers a letter from 1885 addressed to her own name. When she lights the lantern, she is swept into Gilded Age New York and a life-changing romance with Patrick Gantly.

The Date Before Christmas

by Elyse Douglas

2017

Dina Lee receives an anonymous first-class trip to three glamorous cities during the Christmas season. The gift feels too good to trust, and the mystery of who sent it becomes part of the adventure.

The Summer Letters

by Elyse Douglas

2017

Renting a beach cottage for the summer, Vanessa discovers a cache of old love letters from the 1950s. As she follows their story, the past begins to mirror her own hopes, questions, and chance at new love.

The Christmas Eve Daughter

by Elyse Douglas

2018

A shocking secret from Patrick's past sends Eve and Patrick back to 1885 on a mission to save his daughter. When they become separated in time, love and planning may not be enough to get them home.

The Lost Mata Hari Ring

by Elyse Douglas

2018

Actress Trace Rutland slips on a ring once linked to Mata Hari and is thrown into Paris during World War I. There she faces danger, a past-life mystery, and a romance that may not stay in the past.

Daring Summer

by Elyse Douglas

2019

Trapped in a bitter marriage to a jealous older man, Kim tries to ignore the freedom she feels with Derek, a former soldier. Their affair sparks danger fast as lies, revenge, and violence close in.

The Christmas Eve Secret

by Elyse Douglas

2019

Living in modern New York, Eve and Patrick hope the lantern's danger is behind them until it is stolen. Their search opens the door to new secrets, new time crossings, and fresh threats to their growing family.

Time Change

by Elyse Douglas

2019

A 1948 film star and a 2019 writer begin seeing each other in photographs taken at the same Long Island beach house. When time bends and they meet face to face, both must decide what love is worth across decades.

Betrayed

by Elyse Douglas

2020

On her Caribbean honeymoon, Erika Steele wakes to find her wealthy new husband gone and strangers searching their villa. As she investigates, the marriage unravels into a tense mystery about who Richard really is.

Frantic

by Elyse Douglas

2020

After her Special Ops husband is killed, Jenny spirals into self-destruction and then kills a violent man in self-defense. On the run and desperate to start over, she finds help in a cop while the past closes in.

Lost and Found

by Elyse Douglas

2020

Now running a bed-and-breakfast together, Alice and Jack uncover another forgotten diary, this one written in 1944 and hidden in a basement lost-and-found bin. The search behind its story brings family secrets, holiday mystery, and fresh tests for their new life.

The Christmas Eve Promise

by Elyse Douglas

2020

A devastating Christmas tragedy pushes Patrick to use the lantern again, hoping to undo the unthinkable. Instead, he lands in unfamiliar territory and faces a haunting mystery tied to Eve, fate, and the cost of changing the past.

Time Shutter

by Elyse Douglas

2020

Caitlin Thompson uses a mysterious camera to blast her violent half-sister into 1890, then follows to finish the fight. In the past, revenge, missing technology, and gambler Jack Flint turn her plan into a fight for survival.

Time With Norma Jeane

by Elyse Douglas

2020

A troubled teenager is swept into 1954 and picked up on the roadside by her idol, Marilyn Monroe. What follows is an intimate time-slip story about fame, loneliness, and the urge to change a tragedy you already know.

City of Deadly Dreams

by Elyse Douglas

2021

Private detective Dane Cooper takes a missing-person case involving a young man named Elvis and quickly hits a trail of trouble. A dangerous blonde, jealous lovers, and deadly secrets turn the search into a noir-tinged nightmare.

The Christmas Eve Journey

by Elyse Douglas

2021

When a troubled young woman from the past enters Eve and Patrick's lives, pity quickly turns to danger. To set things right, they have to follow her through time and risk everything for one more desperate journey.

Time Sensitive

by Elyse Douglas

2021

Still haunted by a family tragedy in 1968, Charlotte Vance is offered one slim chance to go back and change it. What starts as a rescue mission becomes a tense race against time, memory, and unintended consequences.

Time Stranger

by Elyse Douglas

2021

During a 1944 London air raid, Anne Billings is torn from her small son and wakes in 2008 with no memory. As her past returns, she must find a way home while dodging forces that want the truth about her impossible arrival.

Time Visitor

by Elyse Douglas

2021

When a World War II Navy plane lands near Gretchen Walsh's Ohio home in 2005, her grief-struck life changes overnight. Falling for the pilot is the easy part, surviving the consequences of his arrival is not.

Speakeasy

by Elyse Douglas

2022

West Village singer Roxie Raines stumbles through a hidden doorway and lands in 1925 New York. Jazz clubs, gangsters, and detective Jake Kane pull her into a dazzling life that could cost her both love and safety.

Speakeasy - Book 2

by Elyse Douglas

2022

Recovering from fire and heartbreak, Roxie tries to rebuild her 1925 life while Jake chases a deadly case. Fame, gangsters, and an altered future force her to choose between returning home and fighting for the life she has found.

Time Zone

by Elyse Douglas

2022

Commercial pilot Lane Carson survives a failing flight only to wake in 1942 after a strange flash of light. Desperate to return to her young daughter, she tries to survive the past without losing her future.

Time and Tide

by Elyse Douglas

2023

Gillian Woodruff is swept from a 2023 honeymoon yacht into 1900 after a violent storm at sea. Stranded on a Massachusetts coast, she uncovers family corruption, hard choices, and a love that could change her own future.

Time Passage

by Elyse Douglas

2023

After killing her billionaire boyfriend in self-defense, Cindy Downing flees on a train and wakes on an 1880 locomotive. With her identity stolen and a forced marriage looming, survival matters as much as getting home.

Time Past

by Elyse Douglas

2023

At seventy-four, Kate Clarke returns to the Ohio town that shaped her biggest regret and emerges from a cave in 1968, young again. To save her first love, she must navigate a past that keeps shifting beneath her.

Time Lost

by Elyse Douglas

2024

In 1953, Sally Mason is driving home from night school when a strange light throws her and her car into 2023. Far from her children and everything she knows, she faces a mystery that may demand an impossible sacrifice.

Time Parallel

by Elyse Douglas

2024

After a tornado kills her family, Harper Close is hurled into a parallel version of her hometown a week before the storm. Saving the people she loves means convincing strangers, dodging danger, and outrunning destiny.

Time Risk

by Elyse Douglas

2024

Former homicide detective Rachel Hunt is sent back to Honolulu just before Pearl Harbor to save a man history says will die. The mission soon grows bigger, and changing one life may threaten far more than expected.

Time Risk 2: Titanic

by Elyse Douglas

2025

Rachel Hunt travels to 1912 Southampton to find a missing girl and her governess before the Titanic sails. Lies, betrayal, and the looming disaster force her to choose between the mission and survival.

Time Risk 3: Amelia Earhart

by Elyse Douglas

2025

A strange tear in time leads Rachel Hunt toward Amelia Earhart's vanished flight. To save Earhart and Fred Noonan, Rachel must enter a collapsing loop where one wrong move could rewrite the future.

Visit

by Elyse Douglas

2025

When an alien craft crashes near President Maggie Lawson's hometown, her teenage daughter disappears with it. To get her back, Lawson must trust a former military intelligence officer and face a secret that could shake the world.

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Time Risk 4: Roswell

by Elyse Douglas

2026

Rachel Hunt heads into the shadows around Roswell, where a disappearance and a cover-up seem to be tangled together. The deeper she goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes, for her and for history itself.

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Time Waits - Track Two

by Elyse Douglas

2026

Starting over in Ohio after a divorce, Jennifer Ryan finds wartime relics in her restored house and steps across train tracks into 1943. Falling for Lieutenant Tom Devlin means fighting time itself and the fate already written for him.

Where should I start?

If you want time travel with the biggest emotional arc: The Christmas Eve LetterThe Christmas Eve DaughterThe Christmas Eve Secret
If you want cozy holiday mystery and heart: The Christmas DiaryLost and FoundChristmas Ever After
If you want Roaring Twenties adventure: SpeakeasySpeakeasy - Book 2
If you want higher-stakes historical missions: Time RiskTime Risk 2: TitanicTime Risk 3: Amelia Earhart

Author bio

Elyse Douglas is the pen name of married writers Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Together they write novels that move between holiday fiction, mystery, romantic suspense, and time travel. Their stories often begin with one unsettling discovery, a lost diary, an old lantern, a strange photograph, a burst of light, and then follow the emotional consequences from there.

Elyse grew up near the sea on the East Coast, reading, writing stories and poems, and storing away the kinds of details that later show up in the books: beaches, weather, memory, old houses, and families carrying more history than they admit. She earned a master's degree in English Literature and later worked as an English teacher, an actress, and a speech-language pathologist. That mix of literary study and everyday work helps give the novels a grounded feel, even when the plot turns impossible.

Douglas came from a family where music, astrology, and books were part of ordinary life.

He attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and played piano professionally for years. He also worked as a graphic designer, a corporate manager, and an equities trader. Put that together with Elyse's background, and you can see why these books are both emotional and practical. They like romance, but they also like structure, atmosphere, and a strong mystery engine.

Their fiction under the Elyse Douglas name began with The Christmas Diary in 2012. From there they built a large catalog that ranges from warm holiday stories to bigger time travel adventures. The Christmas Eve Letter sends a modern woman into 1885 New York. Speakeasy drops a nightclub singer into 1925 Manhattan. Time Change links two strangers through the same beach house, seventy-one years apart. The more recent Time Risk books lean harder into historical danger and investigative suspense.

Second chances show up again and again.

So do women at turning points, men carrying old damage, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Some books are cozy and Christmas-lit. Some are darker and faster. Even when the premise is high concept, the real question is usually personal: who can be saved, what can be changed, and what kind of life is worth fighting for.

A lot of their fiction is set in or around New York City, but the books roam widely, from beaches and small towns to wartime London, Gilded Age Manhattan, the Roaring Twenties, and moments of twentieth-century history under pressure. Readers who like Elyse Douglas usually come back for that blend of feeling and momentum. The stories are easy to sink into, but they still make room for grief, regret, mystery, and the stubborn pull of the past.

They live in New York City. After dozens of books, they still seem drawn to the same irresistible question: what happens when the past reaches into the present, and someone has to answer it?

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