Kater Cheek

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2011
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Alternate Susan

1 - Alternate Susan (Jun-2013)
2 - Mulberry Wands (Aug-2014)

Kit Melbourne

1 - Seeing Things (Jun-2011)
2 - Treemaker (Jun-2011)
3 - Dayrunner (Aug-2011)
4 - Faerie Killer (Sep-2012)
5 - Changer's Turf (Oct-2013)
6 - Hawthorn Hex (Jan-2016)
7 - Sorrow's Apprentice (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Voice Like a Cello & Bear Country

    Two fantasy short stories about people who are haunted by (and protected by) the unseen. The A side "Voice Like a Cello" was originally published in Fantasy Magazine, and was a Locus recommended pick for 2009. The B side, "Bear Country" is an award-w...

  • Emily's Fifth Birthday & Alternative Medicine

    Two literary science fiction short stories about women making difficult life choices.What if you could keep your children from getting any older? Would you let them age naturally, or keep them little forever? "Emily's Fifth Birthday" explores this id...

  • Mean Little Kitty & Waiting Room at the Hero League

    Two humorous fantasy short stories involving cats. What's a woman to do if her pet cat does something really, really bad. like kill someone he shouldn't? "Mean Little Kitty" involves a cat, a witch, and her teenage son. Go...

  • Seeing Things

    Kit Melbourne - 1

    Coffee shop barista (and part-time treemaker) Kit Melbourne’s life turns upside down when her tea-leaf reading brother predicts that someone will rob her, break her heart and oh yeah, murder her.Kit suspects it has something to do with the priceles...

  • Treemaker

    Kit Melbourne - 2

    Something is wrong with Kit's boyfriend, really wrong. Kit knows he's under a curse, but no one seems to believe her or want to help her--except Fain, the sexy vampire with ulterior motives. When she's not working inhuman hours making a fake forest f...

  • Dayrunner

    Kit Melbourne - 3

    Despite her broken heart, Kit has finally gotten her life under control. She's got an exciting new job as Dayrunner to the Vampire Guild Leader. She has a new circle of friends, new teachers, and a boyfriend who can't get enough of her. She's frustra...

  • Gingerbread House & Joey's Undead Dog

    Two weird, funny, horror stories. "Gingerbread House," which originally appeared in Weird Tales in 2010, involves a reality show in which contestants live in a house made of cake in the middle of nowhere. A competition to find the best baker turns in...

  • Faerie Killer

    Kit Melbourne - 4

    Rosenkranz is dead, along with her host Paisey. Morales is convinced that the killer is a vampire hunter, and Paisey was merely collateral damage. Why else would Rosenkranz have been completely decapitated?But as Kit investigates Rosenkranz’s host,...

  • Coop de Grace



  • Alternate Susan

    Alternate Susan - 1

    Susie Stillwater summoned a djinn and made a wish to go to an alternate reality where her siblings were still alive. Susie Stillwater switched places with her alternate counterpart and got her wish. Her story is over. But Susan Stillwater’s story i...

  • Poisoned Bluestripe & The Machine and Her Mahout

    Two hard science fiction short stories about the emotional perils of off-planetary colonization.In Poisoned Bluestripe, and idealistic investigator tries to prove an impoverished colonial culture innocent of genocide.The Machine and Her Mahout, a sem...

  • Changer's Turf

    Kit Melbourne - 5

    “Werewolves,” Laurel said. “Werewolves took my boys. Find them. Track them down.”From Selkies in the Puget Sound to were-Javelinas in the high deserts of New Mexico, to were-cougars in Appalachia, Kit uses genealogy research of her husband’...

  • The Third Pig & Sleeps With the Fishes

    Two humorous fantasy stories:Johannes Schwein never trusted that wolf from the day he sauntered into town, but his brothers insisted that Conn would never hurt anyone.First one brother, then the other, has his house blown in. Conn swears he’s innoc...

  • Mulberry Wands

    Alternate Susan - 2

    Susan never expected to find a corpse in her backyard, especially not one no larger than a doll. Her well-intentioned burial and investigation attracts the notice of the victim’s kin, who blame her for the murder and want vengeance. Griff just want...

  • Hawthorn Hex

    Kit Melbourne - 6

    When a civil war causes vampires to spill into Seabingen, Kit is ordered to create a city-wide ward to protect the Guild from rogues. A ward like this has never been made before. This kind of ward is only possible in theory.As Kit struggles with dang...

  • Parasitic Souls

    Fiona loves LA, but she loves her step-mom even more, so when she gets a call saying Carlotta isn’t acting like herself, Fiona drops everything to return to her old hometown. When Fiona arrives in the wine-country town of Clementine, she finds that...

  • Animal Magic

    If 11-year-old tomboy Scar had three wishes, she’d wish that she didn’t cry so much, that she had a mountain of candy, and that she could be a werewolf. It’s no secret that she loves animals and wishes she could be one. One day she rescues a hu...

  • The Heat Stealer

    First, they lose a roommate. Then they lose the air conditioner. With no money to fix it, Susan, Zoë, and Griff get desperate enough to turn to magic to keep from losing the house. Susan casts spells to solve both problems. When their new roommate...

  • Sorrow's Apprentice

    Kit Melbourne - 7

    The town of Red Rock, Arizona is only big enough for one group of vampires. Fain has been trying for years to wrest control, but one last group of feckless young vampires is holed up tight in the palatial Wolfe Ranch. Fain’s team can’t cross the ...



  • Witch's Jewel

    A sorcerous jewel. A mysterious uncle. Can a barista keep her magical heirloom safe from murderous crooks?Kit Melbourne longs to quit her brother's coffee shop to pursue her artistic dreams. And despite the temptation to sell the sought-after enchant...

  • Dryad's Blade

    A doomed man. An impossible choice. Will she bring him back with a magical cure or lose her life to a treacherous lie?Novice witch Kit Melbourne is elated to quit pouring lattes and get paid to conjure a forest. But her excitement is short-lived when...

  • Vampire's Dayrunner

    Deadly curses. Unresolved romance. Can this witch expose a killer before it's too late? Kit Melbourne can't shake her lingering love for her ex, even with her new vampire beau. Between bouts of spontaneous telekinesis and her treacherous job imp...

  • Faerie's Killer

    He's looking for redemption. She's living her nightmares. Can they trust each other long enough to stay alive? Morales is desperate to earn his way back into the Vampire Guild. After blowing a mission, he's forced to work alongside a dewy-eyed s...

  • Hawthorn's Hex

    A shattered ward. Bloodthirsty undead. Can she conjure an impossible magic before they're all sent to their doom? Kit Melbourne never imagined raising her baby in a city under siege. After vicious vampires obliterate the protective hex keeping t...

  • Shapeshifter's Turf

    They abducted her family. Now she's going to make them pay. Kit Melbourne is looking forward to motherhood. So when her cousin-in-law's bear-shifter children are kidnapped by werewolves, her awakening maternal instincts insist she bring them hom...

  • Warlock's Blood

    A warlock hitman. A dangerously unstable psychic. And a powerful occult family who use vampires as pawns.Walker is itching to get out of the dead-end town of Seabingen and relive his glory days when an old groupie from his rock-and-roll past dangles ...

  • Vampire's Pawn

    Can Kit serve a vampire warlock without becoming evil herself?When vampires in Austin break the centuries-long code of silence, bloodsuckers around the world are forced to choose sides. Vampire Guild Leader Holzhausen allies with the traditionalist Q...

  • Wyvern's Sigil

    An ancient house's curse. Occult spellbooks. Vampiric vengeance. Kit and her husband fled to their new rural property, hoping to live safely as a normal human family away from dangerous vampires. But when constant supernatural setbacks plague th...

  • Wizard's Bunker

    Only a daring heist will save them.Aaliyah is the most powerful psychic alive, strong enough to twist the fabric of space time. But even Aaliyah is caught wrong-footed when powerful sorcerers of the Society of the Golden Mean are killed simultaneousl...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kater Cheek has published 29 books.

Kater Cheek does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wizard's Bunker, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Kater Cheek, Emily's Fifth Birthday & Alternative Medicine, was published in May 2011.

Yes. Kater Cheek has 2 series.
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