Karen L. Abrahamson

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  • Bibliography:
    72 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2010
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An AGS Academy (Vallon Drake) Mystery

1 - A Sprinkle of Murder (Sep-2013)
1 - All She Can Be (Dec-2014)
2 - Aftershock (Nov-2013)
3 - Aftermath (Feb-2014)

Ice Dragon

1 - Ice Dragon (Mar-2013)
2 - The Dead (Mar-2012)
3 - Ruin (Jun-2012)
4 - Revelation (Aug-2012)

The Terra Trilogy

1 - Terra Incognita (Sep-2011)
2 - Terra Infirma (Jun-2012)
3 - Terra Nueva (Sep-2012)

Unlocking

1 - Unlocking Her Heart (Mar-2015)
2 - Unlocking Her History (Mar-2015)
3 - Unlocking Her Grace (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 72 titles

  • The Lady of Ashuelot

    A short story revisionist tale of what came after Camelot: In modern day New Hampshire Guinevere, now a blacksmith, and the Lady of the Lake, guard King Authur's magic sword. When Lancelot arrives and demands the sword back it distrubs the peace the...

  • In a Fold of Green Leaf Shadows

    During a family camping trip to mysterious, mist-filled mountains, ten-year-old Carla finds herself saddled with Daniel, a newly adopted brother. Consumed by the ‘injustice’ of Daniel’s presence in her family, she attempts to use th...

  • There is Always a Burning

    Fact: In the 1400's the Emporer of China burned the Chinese exploration fleet. In this alternate history, Fleet Admiral Xeng uses the help of a captured djinn to save the fleet and discover America. But deals with a djinn imitate deals with the devil...

  • A Tiger Heart Wrapp'd in a Woman's Hide

    The thick Sundarban Swamp of southern India provides homes to villagers, teak loggers and man-eating tigers. And Gods.Ancient as the landscape and just as changeable, they live amid the mangroves that exist along the Sundarban’s watery channels. B...

  • Bones

    A short story: In Canada’s north, Linus takes two old friends to an ancient medicine place where buried mammoth-bones lay under an old black spruce. If they can excavate the bones and sell them, riches will finally flow Linus’ way. But Linus’ p...

  • Coyotes, Cats and Other Creatures

    When Richard’s psychiatrist recommends that he deal with his grief by tying troubling memories in the woods around his house, it gives Richard much needed relief. That is, until coyote comes calling….This story first published in Strange Horizons...

  • Poof

    When Coffee Murphy, the best damn whore in Madam LaFarge’s Charm School and Whore House, discovers her best customer dead, she solves the murder to save herself. But vigilantes and Coffee’s past means solving a murder comes at a price. Includes s...

  • The Big Time Performance of Big Time Big P

    A Short Story: This weird little tale marries mystery, a prison romance, and a bite of humor into the sorry tale of Big Pete Galore, sent up to Sing Sing for a mob-sanctioned hit. But when Big P meets Prison Warden J.P. Magut, it seems what matters i...

  • Ashes and Light

    Khadija Siddiqui seeks redemption when she returns to Afghanistan from London. At home she meets her father’s friend, an American CIA operative, Michael Bellis. Michael might be the most dangerous man she has ever met, but also the most fascinating...



  • Through Dark Woods

    This five pack of short stories explores what happens when humans interact with the natural world. From Camelot, to the swamps of India, to the local lake we camped beside as a child, and our own suburban neighbourhoods, nature’s moods are ever cha...

  • The Wife's Tail

    A Short Story: For Daisy, impetuous storm-love brought her up from the deeps and into the arms of a fisherman, John. Happily ever after? When has loving a man and forgetting who you are ever been as easy as expected? Includes Short Story: Sirens....

  • Ruffles

    A Short Story: When Mercy Phillips’ art class challenges her to convey an emotion through art, modeling clay becomes a medium for an almost-recluse to explore all aspects of love. But working with memories and working in clay releases something tha...

  • The African Queen

    A crime. A teenage store clerk who channels Humphrey Bogart. The girl of his dreams and a humorous wild ride across a steamy flooded city. Can our hero control his wayward mouth so love can bloom like on the African Queen?Includes short story: Poof.A...

  • Mutable Things

    Shapeshifter. Empath. Thief. In rain-swept Vancouver, Canada, Jaymee Gray plies her craft and avoids the men whose desires can physically reshape her into the woman they want. When a job goes horribly wrong and a woman dies, it sets off a breakneck a...

  • Afterburn

    Afterburn is an exciting and original addition to the urban fantasy genre. A unique form of magic, a hidden and powerful race of beings, and a kick-ass heroine carrying a dark secret--Afterburn will keep you reading long past your bedtime. -- Adrian ...

  • Pretense for Murder

    A dead girl, an empty British police box where one shouldn’t be and a school full of suspects with too many unusual powers.When student, Vallon Drake discovers the dead body of a girl and a British police box standing outside the American Geologica...

  • The Cartographer's Daughter

    “Romance, adventure, a courageous heroine -- and one of the coolest fantasy concepts you’ll ever see. THE CARTOGRAPHER’S DAUGHTER is an epic tale of a young woman with the power to destroy or create, simply by redrawing the map of the world. Li...

  • Terra Incognita

    The Terra Trilogy - 1

    A ruined city. Marauding bands of men. A flooded, poisonous world and an old magick carried in Terra’s precious blood. In Terra Vargas’ dystopian city, Couver, society clings to civilization at the edge of the Coastal Mountains and on the small o...

  • Bees in the Morning

    Samuel Benson’s life changed the day he found his best bee hive destroyed. When the creatures who have taken over attack him, he thinks he might be losing his mind. After all, they look suspiciously like fairies....



  • The Warden of Power

    In the First Age of the World, Lazar, First among the magical beings called Cartos who inhabit Pangea, seeks to control his wayward kin’s use of Cartos magick. For Lazar and his kind can control and change the landscape, reshaping the mountains and...

  • Blood and Magick

    A murdered caravan merchant, a threatened city, and a forbidden magick that could start a war.As Marshall of the City of Dreams, Marcellus deim Lazar must solve the murder of a half-breed deim merchant discovered in a place no deim should be. The dea...

  • Blood Knowledge of Swans

    A small child, a string of pearls and a pool of swans converge in this short story of family life gone wrong. For Bella, in a world of beautiful swans, her mother is the most beautiful being of all. But swans abandon Bella every year and now her moth...

  • Brambles and Black Horses

    Gayle lost everything in the long ago accident that killed her family's champion race horse and left her a ruined wreck of flesh and broken bones. Now, as bulldozers destroy the old farm where her love of racing was born, the appearance of a strange ...

  • Happily Ever After At the End of Days

  • A Faded Magic

    A jaded carnie fortune teller at the end of the world. A little girl dealing with her parent’s divorce and the horror she creates in her magic place. A jockey who still dreams of horses no matter how broken her body. The characters in these five st...

  • The Dead

    Ice Dragon - 2

    Jazella of Gruenheld ventured out into the snow covered forest in search of dragon treasure. Now, inside the dragon, the youth who has haunted her dreams holds her captive. Escape means risking her life in a dangerous return to Gruenheld, for the fre...

  • Book of Days

    Years ago Eanid Dupuis’ husband stranded her in Paris while conducting research from the transitive dimensions. The discovery of the book that will send her home sets Eanid on a collision course with an African refugee, a book vendor, and the true ...

  • After the Fall

    Years ago, as a young man, Daedalus lost Icarus, his son to the God Apollo. Now the child of his old age threatens to take wing. What will a father do to keep his son safe?Includes Short Story Coyotes, Cats and Other Creatures....

  • Sirens

    When Dana and her two male shipmates crash land on a distant planet, they do what they have always done: work together. One to survey the planet's dangers, one to repair the ship, and one to act as peacemaker. Their bond as lifemates keeps them stron...



  • Terra Infirma

    The Terra Trilogy - 2

    Terra Vargas and Ravi Sanghera must team up again in this sequel to Terra Incognita. Terra learns that her mother, long lost to attacking marauders, may still be alive. Her rescue depends on Terra. Before they can rush to her mother’s aid, maraudin...

  • Ruin

    Ice Dragon - 3

    Jazella of Gruenheld risked everything to steal back her village's precious metal from the dragon's lair. Instead of riches, she brought back a deadly sickness. Now, in a race against time, Jazella must seek help from creatures she dreads in order to...

  • When to Fly the Black Mare and When to Fear Coyote

    When Molly's husband brings a dangerous black mare to their lonely homestead, it only fuels her feelings of impending doom and her nightmares of horse hooves galloping. Then her husband uses the half-mad horse to clear the boulders legends say were l...

  • A Child Among Us

    Ambea, Sister-head of the Sisters of Flame, yearns to provide a viable clutch of eggs that will produce a great leader. If she fails, duty calls for her to step down. When her latest clutch begins to flicker and die, she must decide whether to go to ...

  • The Lips of the Waves, The Tips of Their Wings

    When Vessra of the Village of One Hundred rejects the metamorphosis hisbrood mate chooses, he embarks on an adventure to find a different way tolive - one that won't lead to his brood-mate's death. But different andbetter are not necessarily the same...

  • Revelation

    Ice Dragon - 4

    The Final Installment: Banished from her village in the middle of winter, Jazella must protect her family and herself while trying to reach (or reunite with) the mysterious young man who haunts her dreams. To do so, she must survive the Dead-infested...

  • Terra Nueva

    The Terra Trilogy - 3

    In the aftermath of Couver's devastating defeat, Terra Vargas abandons her city in search of redemption. Across treacherous mountains she follows an insistent drum beat that might be friends guiding her to safety… or those who want her dead. Ruthle...

  • Burmese Shadows

    When a modern young Burmese woman falls in love, the ancient spirit of Lady Three Times Beautiful must guard her from a dishonorable man. But protecting the heart and protecting a woman are two very different things. In a changing world can The Lady ...

  • Deep Water, Sharp Teeth

    When bandits take fifteen-year-old Ravi Sanghera captive in their stilted town, he knows he has to get free and find his father before something bad happens. But then the sharp toothed, tattooed man arrives and the ‘something bad’ becomes somethi...

  • Ice Dragon

    Ice Dragon - 1

    An ice-bound village, a threatening dragon, the walking dead and visionary dreams of true love fuel this tale of adventure in the wintry landscape of Gruenheld. When threatened with marriage to a village elder, seventeen-year-old Jazella of Gruenheld...



  • A Different Night Music

    For Oklahoma girl Trisha 'Monty' Montgomery, going to Lake Farm to escape her past and to breed a top jumping horse might be her one chance at a new life. But the shame of poverty and a past with men she isn't proud of taints her attraction to the ta...

  • A Sprinkle of Murder

    An AGS Academy (Vallon Drake) Mystery - 1

    Vallon Drake might just have met her match this time when she discovers a dead body on the grounds of the AGS Academy. When no one calls the police to investigate, it looks like the powers-that-be are going to sweep the whole thing under the carpet. ...

  • Maps of All Things

    An ancient city Marshall fights for justice in an unjust society of powerful wizards. A private school student investigates the murders that seem to occur far too close for comfort. A far-future teenager must overcome his own fears as he travels acro...

  • Aftershock

    An AGS Academy (Vallon Drake) Mystery - 2

    After dark powers nearly destroy Seattle, Homeland Security suspects everyone with the power to rewrite the landscape -- even those in the American Geological Survey who work to preserve America from exactly that kind of dark magic. When an apocalypt...

  • Aftermath

    An AGS Academy (Vallon Drake) Mystery - 3

    In this supernatural, mystery thriller, Vallon Drake and her psychic allies from the ultra-secret American Geological Survey must face danger and destruction when Homeland Security decides to destroy all Gifted -- those people who can rewrite the lan...

  • Moonstruck

    Danny Black’s world ended with the death of his parents, but no one understands his need to escape everyone and everything around him -- no matter how well-intentioned. Then he meets the moon horse and everything’s solved. He thinks.Karen L. Abra...

  • Emberstone

    Forrest Holmes just turned seventeen. He wears black leather, rides a motorcycle and doesn’t need anyone. He doesn’t believe in the crystals and amulets his mother wastes her money on, or in her stories of demons or angels or djinn. The arrival o...

  • Neutrality

    When Casey Turner’s Family Court case goes south due to the murder of a husband, it leaves a woman in custody and a child’s safety in the balance. What's a neutral Family Court Counselor to do? Karen L. Abrahamson draws on years working in Family...

  • Afterimage

    In this thrilling conclusion to this mystery, thriller series, Vallon and her lover, the warlock Xavier, barely escape the devastation and death of the Pacific Northwest, but mysterious events draw them back into danger and the battle for Gifted surv...

  • The Crystal Courtesan

    Seven years ago, a night of flames destroyed everything Ressana loved in the city of Noralla. Now she hides as a village healer far from those who might recognize her true nature. But the night of three moons brings Norallan guardsmen seeking those o...



  • Between the Lines

    Mystic, alchemist, mastermind, albino. When diminutive Landon Snow receives a call for help from his long lost love, he abandons his secret Seattle laboratory for Las Vegas to find an abducted teenager. Can his meager Gifted powers reclaim his old fl...

  • All She Can Be

    An AGS Academy (Vallon Drake) Mystery - 1

    When someone moves the Canada/US border along the flooding Red River, the American Geological Survey assigns freshman agent Vallon Drake and her partner to find the culprit and repair the damage. If they don't it could destroy the peace between the t...

  • Coming Down Christmas

    Tara Yule gave up everything to help her sister hold onto their parent’s Christmas tree farm… and it wasn’t enough. When a cowboy in a snowstorm forces Tara off the road, it brings her face to face with Rick Spader -- tall, Stetson-wearing, and...

  • Impossible

    To Ralia of the Maps, change never comes to the village of Ouzaradade. Each day starts and ends exactly the same as the one before -- until the day the stranger rides down from the mountains. Something about him calls to her, but when she seeks him o...

  • Unlocking Her Heart

    Unlocking - 1

    When Kylee Jensen returns from Africa, she leaves behind her fiancé and brings back a badly broken heart. To heal, she seeks out her best friend in the idyllic lakeside town of Peachland, where she meets bad boy vintner Brett Main. Meeting Kylee mig...

  • Unlocking Her History

    Unlocking - 2

    As a runaway teen Chloe Main ended up on the seamier side of the street but escaped through the help of kindly New Age friends. Years later she has put her life together -- almost. She still doesn’t trust men and still doesn’t trust herself aroun...

  • Unlocking Her Grace

    Unlocking - 3

    Ally McVay came home to Peachland to recover from everything going wrong in her life: Her international charity floundering; her acclaimed photography gone stale; and her love life non-existent. Thirteen years ago an Irish musician, Séamus O’Hearn...

  • Unlocking Her Dreams

    The struggle of single parenthood brings its own rewards for Reggie Lewis. She has a great daughter and the world finally recognizes her jewelry designs -- or will once they appear on the Milan runways this Fall. When disaster strikes, it leaves Regg...

  • Unlocking Her Chances

    When her kind-hearted support of a friend destroys the career and reputation of Victoria Angelucci, daughter of a noble Italian family, she takes refuge in Peachland, her friend’s idyllic, beach-front home. Victoria wants her life back, but a certa...

  • Unlocking Her Doubts

    Once Hollywood’s newest ‘it’ girl, Lila Weber ran away from fame and expectations to open a jewelry store in Peachland. She left behind fans and one man who never forgot her. Fifteen years later, during the driest summer in recent history, she ...

  • Stormrider and the Lady of Soul

    The glamour of living on his boat wears off for Earl James soon after he gets tossed off the police force. With winter storms brewing, the engine having fits, and a broken heater, he figures not much else can go wrong. Then otherworldly Sylvana Storm...

  • Death by Effigy

    A Novella of Mystery, Magic, and Marionettes in 19th Century Burma.

     

    A traditional Burmese puppetry troupe is more than meets the eye: these puppets hold living spirits.

    Disaster strikes on the eve of a performance for a royal ...

  • A Death In Passing

    “A wonderful blend of conspiracy and playful spirits, with a pair of unique detectives - and no strings attached!” - Steve Poore, Fantasy Author and Goodread reader.

    At a Burmese spirit festival, Aung, the elderly singer of the yoke thei...

  • Surviving Safe Harbor

    In this evocative paranormal romance Ronnie Baxter escaped a violent marriage in Chicago. Taking shelter on the gorgeous Sunshine Coast of western Canada with her daughter, she wants nothing more than to settle down close to the ocean and fly under h...

  • With One Shoe

    A finalist in the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award for short mysteries. Detective Ron Conroy gave up hoping for a better world a long time ago. When he attends the dilapidated home of Elvira Paradis to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, he ...

  • Heart's Return

    8 Tales Of Romance Those We Long For'Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies'Shadow Play By Karen L. AbrahamsonLife is a Cabernet By Jan MoranLegally in Love By Prasenjeet KumarEscaping Ivernee By Lisa TooheyHer Fiery Viking By AJ Tip...

  • A Squalor of Chickens

    Once a warrior of the Seelie Court, Rose now exists as a changeling in a twisted human body devoid of magic. Only on midwinter day can she taste magic again, in the form of a single spell, one that allows her to reconnect the ice-cold Earth with the ...

  • The Nests of Old Women

    When Clare Pine’s husband, Todd, leaves her for another woman, Clare’s life takes a nose dive. First she loses her man, then her apartment and finally her job. After a year watching every dream she has pass her by while Todd’s life soars, she f...

  • Death In Umber

    Amid the hundreds of ancient Buddhist temples that litter central Burma’s drought-stricken Pagan plain, Aung, the puppet singer of the royal Burmese puppet troupe, stumbles upon a murdered child monk. Thus begins the third mystery featuring Aung an...

  • Doorway into Faerie

    Step through the portal and enter the world of Faerie.What if you followed a path through a city park, and found yourself in another land? What if the archway you just passed is really a portal to Faerie? What if the guardian of an opening into ou...

  • Dangerous Haven

    A WOMAN TRAPPED BY FEAR AND A MAN CURSED BY THE GODS MUST OVERCOME THEIR PASTS TO SAVE THEMSELVES AND THE WORLD. Until the assault that left her half-dead in an alley, Cat Moore was a confident, no-nonsense probation officer. Now terrified her attack...

  • Map of an Old Heart

    Vallon Drake has a special gift. She can sense and correct geographical changes that might not only wipe entire countries off the map, but change reality so that everyone forgets those countries ever existed. When Vallon senses a change in the m...

  • Tera Nueva

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    In this final installment of the Terra Trilogy, in the aftermath of the destruction of Couver, Terra Vargas follows an insistent drum beat that might be friends guiding her to safety... or those who want her dead. Ruthless marauders pursue her. So do...

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Karen L. Abrahamson has published 72 books.

Karen L. Abrahamson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Map of an Old Heart, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Karen L. Abrahamson, The Lady of Ashuelot, was published in July 2010.

Yes. Karen L. Abrahamson has 4 series.
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