Elsie Hawkins · Book 4

The Rocky Road to Romance

by Janet Evanovich

Published
1 March 1991
Pages
249
ISBN-13
9780060738259
Type
novel

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About this book

The Rocky Road to Romance (March 1991, 249 pages) closes out the series, released at the same roughly six-month cadence as its predecessors, before Evanovich reinvented herself with One for the Money in 1994.

Its place in Elsie Hawkins

The Rocky Road to Romance is book 4 in the Elsie Hawkins series. It follows Wife for Hire. See the full Elsie Hawkins reading order.

Before Stephanie Plum, there was Elsie Hawkins: a sharp-tongued, matchmaking older woman who turns up in four early Evanovich category romances, nudging a different mismatched couple together in each one. Back to the Bedroom, Smitten, Wife for Hire, and The Rocky Road to Romance are all standalone romances with their own hero and heroine, but Elsie recurs across all four as a connective thread, and Evanovich has said the character was the direct inspiration for gun-toting, foul-mouthed Grandma Mazur in the…

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