Riverview Books in Order

The Riverview books are the outlier in Kathleen Fuller's bibliography. If you know her mostly from Amish romance, this series can be a surprise. These are big, glossy family sagas set around money, inheritance, corporate power, and the kind of old grudges that do not stay buried for long.

The center of the story is the Stockwell family and their Hudson Valley estate, Riverview. In Bitter Legacy, the death of patriarch Matthew Stockwell opens the door to a ruthless struggle over who will control the family empire. From there, the books keep widening the circle. Heirs, spouses, rivals, and outsiders all move through the estate and the boardroom, each carrying private motives that affect everyone else.

This is not cozy fiction.

The appeal here is the tension between public power and private damage. The setting matters because Riverview is more than a house. It is a symbol of status, memory, and control. People are always arriving at it, leaving it, or fighting over what it represents.

Across The Lion's Share, Pride of Place, and Fortune's Heirs, the series keeps its eye on ambition, romantic entanglement, and the question of who deserves to inherit not just wealth, but authority. The tone is dramatic and a little soapy in the best old-school sense.

Readers who like dynastic family fiction, shifting loyalties, and stories where love is tangled up with money will probably have a good time here. It is a very different Kathleen Fuller, but it shows she could handle ensemble drama long before she became known for Amish communities.