Rebecca Ross Books in Order

If you want lush adult fantasy with folklore vibes: A River Enchanted → A Fire Endless.
If you prefer romantic war torn YA fantasy: Divine Rivals → Ruthless Vows.
If you love court intrigue and rising queens: The Queen's Rising → The Queen’s Resistance.
If you want standalones with big magic and heart: Sisters of Sword and Song → Dreams Lie Beneath.
If you are already hooked on Letters of Enchantment: Divine Rivals → Ruthless Vows → Wild Reverence.

Rebecca Ross writes fantasy novels for teens and adults, blending quiet character drama with rich, folklore touched worlds. She grew up in Georgia and today her stories travel much farther than she ever expected, reaching readers around the world. Her books range from intimate duologies to standalone adventures, but they are all rooted in emotion and a sense of wonder.

Ross spent her childhood in the Atlanta area, devouring books and hoping, quite literally, to stumble into a wardrobe that led somewhere else. While other kids played outside, she was often sketching maps, naming imaginary kingdoms, and copying favorite lines into notebooks. That early hunger for portal stories and fairytales still shows up in the doors, rivers, and letters that open into magic in her work.

In college she did not follow a straight line toward publishing. She first studied at a smaller Georgia campus, then transferred to the University of Georgia, even starting in nutrition and dietetics before switching to an English degree when she admitted to herself that stories mattered most. Learning how language worked on the page gave her tools to match the daydreams she had been carrying since she was young.

After graduation, Ross worked a string of very down to earth jobs. She spent seasons at a Colorado dude ranch, shelved books and helped students as a school librarian, and captioned college classes in real time. Writing fit into the margins of those years, usually before dawn, late at night, or on lunch breaks.

Near the end of 2014 she imagined a future version of herself who had never truly tried to write a novel, and the thought felt like regret waiting to happen. That picture pushed her to treat writing less like a hobby and more like a promise to herself.

Her first full attempt at a fantasy novel was messy but important. It gave her the confidence to start again, this time with the idea that became The Queen's Rising. On a cold January night in 2015, she began drafting the story of Brienna at Magnalia House, a girl searching for her passion and her place. Forty eight days later there was a draft, and within the year she had an agent and a book deal that launched her career.

Since then, Ross has continued to move between series and standalones, often circling themes of identity, loyalty, and the cost of power. Sisters of Sword and Song follows two sisters bound by love and sacrifice in a world inspired by ancient myth. Dreams Lie Beneath dives into a cursed land where nightmares step into the street and a young magician must decide what she is willing to risk for justice and love.

Her adult duology A River Enchanted and A Fire Endless carries readers to the isle of Cadence, a misty, clan divided landscape shaped by capricious spirits, old songs, and family secrets. These books lean into slow burn relationships, community ties, and the question of how to heal a place that has been divided for generations.

Many readers found Ross through the Letters of Enchantment books. In Divine Rivals and its sequel Ruthless Vows, rival journalists Iris Winnow and Roman Kitt fall in love through enchanted letters while reporting on a brutal war between awakening gods. The duology became a bestseller, struck a chord with readers online, and opened the door for a film adaptation. With Wild Reverence, an adult novel set centuries earlier in the same world, she steps back to the age when the gods themselves still walked, following a young goddess and a mortal lord whose lives become tightly entwined.

Ross has spoken about her love of Jane Austen and about drawing inspiration from authors like Juliet Marillier and Melina Marchetta, whose work balances character, romance, and myth. You can see that influence in the way she writes steady, everyday details alongside sweeping magic, and in how often her characters face war and history with quiet, stubborn hope.

She now lives in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Georgia with her husband, an energetic Australian Shepherd, and a small flock of chickens. When she is not revising pages, she is usually tending a garden full of wildflowers and weeds, hunting for vintage typewriters and old stamps, or chatting with readers. No matter how busy life gets, the decision she made years ago still holds: make time for the stories, page by page.