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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2006
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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About the Author

Karen Chance grew up in Orlando, Florida, the home of make-believe, which probably explains a lot. She has since resided in France, Great Britain, Hong Kong and New Orleans, mostly goofing off but occasionally teaching history. She is currently living in Tampa. She published her first urban fantasy novel in 2006, and since them she continues writing. She has had books on the New York Times and USAToday bestselling lists.

Full Series List in Order

Cassandra Palmer

1 - Touch the Dark (Jun-2006)
2 - Claimed By Shadow (Apr-2007)
3 - Embrace the Night (Apr-2008)
3.1 - The Day of the Dead (Aug-2008)
4 - Curse the Dawn (Apr-2009)
4.1 - A Family Affair (Aug-2011)
4.5 - Shadowland (Nov-2012)
4.6 - The House at Cobb End (Nov-2012)
5 - Hunt the Moon (Jun-2011)
6 - Tempt the Stars (Oct-2013)
7 - Reap the Wind (Nov-2015)
8 - Ride the Storm (Aug-2017)
9 - Brave the Tempest (Aug-2019)
10 - Shatter the Earth (Dec-2019)
11 - Ignite the Fire (Sep-2021)
Buying Trouble (Aug-2007)

Dorina Basarab

0.5 - Zombie's Bite (Dec-2015)
1 - Midnight's Daughter (Oct-2008)
1.5 - Buying Trouble (Aug-2007)
2 - Death's Mistress (Jan-2010)
2.5 - In Vino Veritas (Jun-2011)
3 - Fury's Kiss (Oct-2012)
4 - Masks (Mar-2014)
4 - Shadow's Bane (Aug-2018)
4.5 - Lover's Knot (Jun-2017)
4.6 - Dragon's Claw (Sep-2018)
4.7 - Siren's Song (Sep-2019)
5 - Queen's Gambit (Jul-2020)

Gillian Urswick and Kit Marlowe

1 - The Gauntlet (Oct-2010)
2 - The Queen's Witch (May-2010)

Lia de Croissets

1 - Rogue Elements (Oct-2008)
2 - Vegas Odds (Jul-2009)
3 - Skin Deep (Jan-2010)
4 - Junk Magic (Oct-2022)

Mircea Basarab

0.5 - Masks (Mar-2014)

Book List in Order: 34 titles



  • Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-- talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot. The undead are another matter. Like...



  • A recent legacy made Cassandra Palmer heir to the title of Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant. It's a vow position that usually comes with years of training, but Cassie's circumstances are a little...unusual. And now she's stuck with a whopping am...



  • In a New York auction house, a Lord of the Fey crosses paths with a fiery redheaded mage named Claire. But in this strange underground society, the rarity up for sale is Claire herself....



  • Recently named the world's chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire--the sizzling-hot Mircea--are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own. The spell tha...



  • “The Day of the Dead” features Tomas, a character from the Cassandra Palmer novels, who was last seen cooling his heels in Faerie. He’ll show up again in the series, but what about in the meantime? What does a powerful, four-hundred-year-old va...



  • Dorina Basarab is a dhampir--half human, half vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. So far Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve...



  • The editors of Many Bloody Returns deliver the perfect howl-iday gift, with new tales from Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and many more. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, and Carrie Vaughn--along w...



  • Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant -- and they’ll stop at nothi...



  • Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line...






  • Dorina Basarab is a dhampir--half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. So far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserv...



  • Four of today's hottest urban fantasy writers together for the first time From today's most provocative authors come four tales of urban fantasy and paranormal romance exploring body art that is more than it seems-in a world of magic and mayhem th...



  • "The Queen's Witch" is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab series of urban fantasy novels. It features Kit Marlowe in a supernatural thriller set in Elizabethan England. The prequel is "The Ga...



  • The Gauntlet is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab series of urban fantasy novels. Set in the England of Elizabeth I, it features Kit Marlowe as a newly created vampire and Gillian Urswic...



  • Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you'd think would buy a girl a little time off. But it doesn't work that way when your job description is Pythia-the world's chief clairvoyant. Cassie is busier than ever, trying to learn about her powe...



  • Chicks are awesome -- and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt. Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and inte...



  • "A Family Affair" is a novella connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of urban fantasy novels. It is designed primarily as an "added feature" to the series, and is intended for those already reading the books....



  • Dorina Basarab is a dhampir -- half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who ...



  • A John Pritkin short. This story is set prior to the beginning of the Cassandra Palmer series. It nonetheless contains spoilers for all five books. This is a little story about a house. It was written in answer to a question that came in for the ...



  • "Shadowland" is a novella connected to the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer series of urban fantasy novels. It is designed primarily as an "added feature" to the series, and is intended for those already reading the books. It is the sequel...






  • Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you’re only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And when you’ve just used your not-so-reli...



  • Fifteenth century Venice is a safe haven for the masterless dregs of the vampire world, a city where they can live without the fear of retribution for violating another's territory. Still, there are plenty of ways for a young vampire to die in the gl...



  • You’d think that being chief seer for the supernatural world would come with a few perks. But as Cassie Palmer has learned, being Pythia doesn’t mean you don’t have to do things the hard way. That’s why she finds herself on a rescue mission s...



  • When Dorina Basarab, half human, half vampire, assassin-for-hire, hits New Orleans, she thinks it's for a typical job: take out a mad master vamp before he can wreak havoc on the city. But when the elusive master suddenly shows up at her hotel, thing...



  • One of the most powerful vampires alive has gone missing, which is fine with Dorina Basarab. As a dhampir, her job is killing vampires, not saving them. But then the man sent to find the missing vamp also goes missing, and she finds herself on a resc...



  • Ever since being stuck with the job of pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been playing catch up. Catch up to the lifetime's worth of training she missed being raised by a psychotic vampire instead of at the fabled pyt...



  • Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back--and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series. Dorina Basarab is a dhampir--half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate's newest ...



  • A new novella in the New York Times bestselling Midnight's Daughter series! Everyone knows that vampires are hard to kill. But when Dory Basarab is called to a crime scene in a smelly basement in Queens, she discovers that that may no longer be the c...



  • Cassie Palmer, chief seer of the supernatural world, faces her biggest challenge yet--her own allies! Everything's on the line in the latest thrilling entry in the New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series. Cassie Palmer has been chief s...



  • War mages are the magical equivalent of tanks: tough, powerful, and deadly. They have to be, in order to defend the supernatural community from the dangerous threats it sometimes faces. But what happens when the threat is them? John Pritkin has be...






  • Ironically for the time traveling, chief seer of the supernatural world, time has never been on Cassie Palmer’s side. There has always seemed to be too much to learn, too much to master, and never enough hours in a day. But the tables have now turn...



  • Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—the feared and hated cross between a vampire and a human—or so she has always believed. She spent most of her life on the fringes of her two worlds, yearning to belong to one or the other, but despised and dist...



  • The New York Times bestselling Cassie Palmer series has returned!Cassie Palmer is the Pythia, chief seer of the supernatural world. John Pritkin is a half demon and a legendary war mage. Mircea Basarab is a first-level master vampire and the general ...



  • Half werewolf Lia de Croissets is a member of the War Mage Corps, the police branch of the world’s leading magical organization, the Silver Circle. She’s an instructor assigned to train new recruits, a job considered to be significantly t...



  • Long before Dorina Basarab was a respected member of the Vampire Senate, she was an outcast known as a dhampir. Half human, half vampire, all pariah, she scraped out a living catching monsters even more terrifying than herself. But perhaps the greate...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Chance has published 34 books.

Karen Chance does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Time's Fool, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Karen Chance, Touch the Dark, was published in June 2006.

Yes. Karen Chance has 5 series.