Elsie Silver

Elsie Silver is a Canadian author of western and small-town romance novels, known for the Gold Rush Ranch, Chestnut Springs, Rose Hill and Emerald Lake series. She is active on TikTok and Instagram, and People has called her a BookTok star.

Career

Silver worked as a freelance editor in academia before she began writing during the COVID-19 pandemic. She self-published her first novel, Off to the Races, in 2021, and it began the Gold Rush Ranch series. She went on to write the Chestnut Springs series (Flawless, Heartless, Powerless, Reckless and Hopeless) and the Rose Hill series (Wild Love, Wild Eyes, Wild Side and Wild Card). According to Variety, the Chestnut Springs novels alone have sold more than 10 million copies. In 2026 she began the Emerald Lake series with Fever Dream, published by Simon & Schuster. She describes herself as a number-one New York Times bestselling author.

Adaptations

In 2025 Netflix began developing a series based on the Chestnut Springs books, with Shawn Levy producing. In May 2026 Amazon Prime Video ordered a series of Rose Hill, with Heidi Cole McAdams as showrunner and Silver as an executive producer. Jake Weary, Sean O'Pry, Hannah Galway and Sadie Dickerson were cast in the leading roles.