The Rocky Road to Romance
- Published
- 1 March 1991
- Pages
- 249
- ISBN-13
- 9780060738259
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about The Rocky Road to Romance
Janet Evanovich wrote The Rocky Road to Romance, a novel on our list. It has been out since March 1991. The book has 249 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780060738259 to find the main one.
The Rocky Road to Romance is book 4 of 4 in the Elsie Hawkins series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Back to the Bedroom (1989).
Additionally, Janet Evanovich writes Stephanie Plum, Barnaby and Hooker and Lizzy and Diesel, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our romance, mystery and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo is the latest published Janet Evanovich book on file, from 10 November 2026.
About Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich spent a decade collecting rejection letters before she sold her first novel. Raised in New Jersey and trained in art at Douglass College, she wrote romance from her kitchen table as a stay-at-home mother in New Hampshire, eventually publishing close to a dozen romance novels, including her 1987 debut, Hero at Large, under the pseudonym Steffie Hall, before switching genres entirely. See every Janet Evanovich book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060738259