Chestnut Springs Series: Elsie Silver’s Books & Reading Order

27/03/2025

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The Chestnut Springs Series: Your Questions Answered.

Elsie Silver has created the ultimate small-town romance world with swoon-worthy cowboys, heart-melting moments and just the right amount of spice.

If you like bull riders, hockey players, cowboys, rogue panties (yes, really), hot tubs or the classic there’s-only-one-bed trope this series is for you. Get ready to fall for the Eaton boys of Chestnut Springs and the fierce, unforgettable women who steal their hearts.

What’s Chestnut Springs About?

This series is part of the same world as Elsie Silver’s Gold Rush Ranch books. Each book can be read as a standalone but they’re all interconnected following different couples as they navigate love, life and plenty of small-town drama.

Here’s a quick rundown of the books so far:

📖 1 Flawless: A bull rider falls for his big-city agent’s daughter—cue tension, banter and undeniable chemistry.

📖 2 Heartless: His brother, a full-time cattle rancher, needs a live-in nanny… who just happens to be his future sister-in-law’s best friend.

📖 3 Powerless: Their honorary third brother, an NHL hockey player, shows up to rescue his childhood best friend after her wedding day goes very wrong.

📖 4 Reckless: A rising star in the bull riding world has a one-night stand that takes an unexpected turn thanks to a tiny plus sign.

📖 5 Hopeless: The mysterious military brother, Beau Eaton, finds himself in a fake engagement with the girl next door. (Fake dating and small-town romance? Yes please.)

If you haven’t jumped into Chestnut Springs yet now’s the time! These books will have you hooked from page one—so get ready to fall in love with this small-town world.

Chestnut Springs Series Order

“What the hell is the cowboy hat rule?

You wear the hat, you ride the cowboy.”

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Trope: Forced Proximity

1. Flawless

The rules were simple . . .
Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble.

But now I’m stuck with her . . . And there’s only one bed . . .
Oh well, rules are made — to be broken . . . aren’t they?

I’m the face of professional bull riding — the golden boy.
Or at least I was, until it all blew up in my face.
Now my agent says I have to clean up my image, so I’m stuck with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as my “full-time supervision.”

But I don’t need a goddamn babysitter —
especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk,
and a mouth she can’t stop running.

A mouth I just can’t stop thinking about . . .

Because Summer isn’t just another conquest.
She sees the man behind the mask, and she doesn’t run —
she pulls me closer, even when she shouldn’t.

She says this means nothing — but I say this means everything.

She says there are boundaries we shouldn’t cross.
That my reputation can’t take any more hits — and neither can her damaged heart.

I say I’m going to steal it anyway.

“I don’t tell Summer what to do. Wouldn’t listen if I tried.

That’s the best kind of woman if you ask me.”

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Trope: Single Dad/Nanny

2. "Heartless" by Elsie Silver

Working as a nanny for the world’s grumpiest single dad should have been simple. Except I can’t keep my eyes off him. And he can’t keep his hands off of me.

Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than I am and barely looks my way. Until I get him into the hot tub one night for a game of truth or dare. Then all bets are off—and so are our clothes.

He’s gruff, a little rough around the edges. But broad-shouldered ranchers with calloused hands and filthy mouths are this city girl’s kryptonite. So who am I to resist?

But it’s in our quiet moments together that he softens. It’s when he takes care of me that I realize his hardened exterior is just a façade. It’s when I watch him go all sweet with his little boy that I really fall for him.

Someone convinced him once that his best wasn’t good enough. But I’ve never felt more cherished than I do in his arms.

My contract may say this arrangement is only for two months.

But my heart says this is forever.

“He’s constantly trying to blend into the background, but even when he’s hiding, I see him.”

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Trope: Childhood Friends to Lovers

3. "Powerless" by Elsie Silver

Two childhood friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. That’s all this was supposed to be. Afterall, I’ve been living in the friend zone for years now.

But hockey heartthrob Jasper Gervais isn’t looking at me like a friend anymore. And he isn’t touching me like one either.

To his fans, he’s the handsome, talented athlete on TV. But to me he’s still the lost boy with sad eyes and a heart of gold.

The man I’ve loved in secret for years.

So when my life falls apart on my wedding day, it only makes sense that he’s the one to swoop in and save me. And when his world comes crashing down around him, I’m there to return the favor.

But the more time we spend alone, the more Jasper doesn’t feel like a friend at all. He feels like everything I’ve ever wanted and thought I could never have.

Our feelings aren’t straight forward though. They twist and turn around the pain of his past and the reality of my present.

Jasper Gervais acts like he wants me.

But after years of turning me away, he’s going to need to prove it.

“What’s happening is Miss Independent met the treat-her-like-a-princess guy, and she’s freaking out.”

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Trope: Second Chance Romance

4. "Reckless" by Elsie Silver

Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider. Notorious ladies’ man. Scorching hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package.

And he’s looking at me like I might be his next meal.

But I’m almost free of my toxic marriage and have sworn off men entirely. So all I see when I look back is temptation served up with a heaping side of heartbreak.

The man is hard to trust—and even harder to resist.

Make that impossible. Because Theo is persistent. And no matter how hard I try to freeze him out, he melts my icy exterior and pulls apart all my defenses.

Over a drink in a small town bar, I blurt out my deepest, darkest secrets. Then I spend the singular hottest night of my life with him.

He worships my body. He makes me blush. I come alive beneath his hands.

Then I tell him to forget it ever happened. I want simple, and with him it all feels complicated.

It was supposed to be a one-time thing.

A secret.

But that little plus sign is going to make this secret impossible to keep.

“It bothers me that what we’re doing here can be filed away as fake when it’s the most real thing I’ve felt in my life.”

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Trope: Fake Fiancé

5. "Hopeless" by Elsie Silver

Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.

I’m the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.

He’s thirty-five and all man, and I’m twenty-two and all… virgin.

He’s also my fiancé. Correction: my fake fiancé.

We start out as a bet. He doesn’t believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.

It’s win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family’s prying, and I get a chance to shed my family’s reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.

He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can’t keep my hands off of him in public.

But it’s what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines.

It’s what transpires behind closed doors that doesn’t feel like pretending at all.

This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.

He once told me he’d never fall in love.

And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiancé.

Conclusion

This is the complete Elsie Silver Chestnut Springs Series order. Be sure to check out her other series, with the latest book “Wild Side” in the Rose Hill Series launched March 2025.