Ilona Andrews

The Kate Daniels novels are set in a slightly futuristic Atlanta, where magic and tech periods follow one another. During tech, guns and cars work. During magic, planes fall from the sky and generally anything technological fails but forgotten magic spells work again. In this world, magical creatures again roam the lands. Heroine Kate Daniels is a mercenary who fights various types of monsters. Kate is special: she is a human with some magical abilities but foremost she's a great warrior.

The Edge world is in between the 'normal' earth and a magical world that looks remarkably the same. It's a small piece of land where some things are magical and some are not. Most people on either side cannot go across a border, so the edgers are generally left alone. But the few people that can cross borders cause trouble...

1. On the Edge (Ace Books, September 2009)
2. Bayou Moon (Ace Books, September 2010)
3. Fate's Edge (Ace Books, November 2011)
4. Steel's Edge (Ace Books, December 2012)

1. The World of Kinsmen in The Kinsmen Universe
2. Silent Blade (eBook, Samhain Publishing, June 2009 and in The Kinsmen Universe)
3. Silver Shark (eBook, Samhain Publishing, April 2011 and in The Kinsmen Universe)
4. A Mere Formality in The Kinsmen Universe

Earth, as we know it, is a busy way-station for extraterrestrials due to the solar system having an unusually large number of "jump points". However, the people of Earth don't know about other worlds or aliens yet, so by intergalactic treaty Earth is designated neutral territory and visiting aliens must stay at the Inns and cannot reveal themselves to the native inhabitants.

Innkeepers have a symbiotic relationship with their Inn; a living, semi-sentient and probably alien lifeform. They are powerful within Inn grounds and can use their "magic" to control every part of the Inn and grounds - including creating additional customized rooms for guests just by a thought and opening portals to other worlds their Inn has forged a connection to. The inside of an Inn bends physics to extreme lengths. Their purpose is twofold: protecting their guests at all costs, and maintaining the ignorance of Earth's people to the existence of alien cultures.

Dina Demille comes from a family of Innkeepers and recently woke her own Inn, Gertrude Hunt, from hibernation. As Gertrude Hunt is comparatively unknown, getting visitors and keeping a thriving Inn is tough. Fortunately, Dina is also tough and goes to extremes to make her visitors happy, whilst keeping the true nature of the Inn a secret from the local population.

The Innkeeper books are posted freely online as a weekly series of partial chapters on the Ilona Andrews website. When a book is finished the chapters stay online for a short while then are taken down and become a first-draft, edited and published as a novel.

Due to the weekly format the comments sections of each chapter are very lively with speculation as to what comes next.

Ilona and Gordon have dubbed their fans in the comments sections, especially of Innkeeper, the Book Devouring Horde (BDH) - a play on the Hope Crushing Horde from one of the Innkeeper books. In turn the BDH have historically and playfully referred to them collectively as the ALs (Author Lords). They are now termed House Andrews (another play on words from the books) or IA.

1. Clean Sweep (Dec 2013) also in The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One
2. Sweep in Peace (Nov 2015) also in The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One
3. One Fell Sweep (Dec 2016) also in The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One
4. Sweep of the Blade (July 2019)
5. Sweep With Me (Jan 2020)

0.5 Of Swine and Roses [9] (March 2011, short story)in Small Magics

1 Burn for me (Avon Romance, October 2014)

2 White Hot (Avon, May 2017)

3 Wildfire (Avon, July 2017)

4 Diamond Fire, Novella (Avon Impulse, November 2018)

5 Sapphire Flames, (2019)

6 Emerald Blaze, (2020)

7 Ruby Fever, (early 2022)

• Questing Beast[10] (2010) (free short story)
• A Mere Formality (2011)

1. Iron Covenant 1: Iron and Magic (June 26, 2018)

This is the first work in a planned trilogy. In the introduction, the author recommends that the book Magic Triumphs, in the Kate Daniels series, be read between Iron Covenant 1 and Iron Covenant 2. The tentative publishing date for Iron Covenant 2 is the second half of 2021.