Kim Antieau

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1996
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • The Jigsaw Woman

    Created from the bodies of three different women as a mistress for her evil doctor, Keelie sets out on a quest to find her true self and the earth's primordial truths, journeying to the paradise of the Amazons. Reprint....

  • The Gaia Websters

    In her quest to save her post-apocalyptic Arizona community from an epidemic, a woman with supernatural healing powers discovers that the only cure may lie in her shadowy past and the ghosts that prowl her dreams...

  • Coyote Cowgirl

    Jeanne Les Flambeaux-you know, the famous Flambeaux clan, the great chefs and restaurateurs of the Southwest-is the black sheep of her very accomplished family. She has a few problems. Like, for one, she can't cook. And she hears voices for another. ...

  • The Black Wallpaper

    in The Many Faces of Van Helsing

    An all-original anthology of short stories captures the diverse faces and feats of Van Helsing, the famed vampire hunter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, in works by such authors as Katherine Dunn, Elizabeth Hand, Kathe Koja, Tanith Lee, Kristine ...

  • Mercy, Unbound

    Mercy O'Connor is becoming an angel. She can feel her wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. They itch. Sometimes she even hears them rustling. And angels don't need to eat. So Mercy has decided she doesn't need to either. She is not sick, doesn...

  • Broken Moon

    I WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH. Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly co...

  • Ruby's Imagine

    Astorm is coming. Big Oak told Ruby Butterfly and Ruby Butterfly told Ruby the girl. But how does Ruby the girl tell everyone else? Her grandmother, Mammaloose, will say it’s Ruby’s imaginationnot real. Like Ruby’s memories of her mama and dadd...

  • Church of the Old Mermaids

    Myla Alvarez, novice, walks into the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona and begins telling stories about the Old Mermaids who were washed ashore onto the New Desert when the Old Sea dried up. In this mystical new world, they lived, created, and walk...

  • Briar Rose

    She doesn’t remember falling through the plate glass window. She doesn’t remember anything at all, not even her name. Her only link to the past is the rose tattoo on her backside. And when she finds the tattoo parlor, she's certain she can find t...



  • Another Country

    Every morning when she awakens, the woman looks for her husband Emil and mourns the death of her daughter at the hands of government soldiers. Every morning she can't explain the panic rising in her throat. Then she reads her diary and learns once ag...

  • Seeing Pink

    17-year-old Mata lives on the great Amazon river, where she and her grandmother look after scientists who come every year with the rains. Grandmother warns Mata to stay away from the pink dolphins -- the boto; they are tricksters who lure unsuspectin...

  • Grand Mother Yemaya Mermaid and the Thirteen Quilts

    Some time after the Old Sea dried up and the Old Mermaids washed up on the shores of the New Desert, Grand Mother Yemaya Mermaid decided she wanted to find a way to comfort the Old Mermaids who were far from home and lonesome for Old Friends and the ...

  • Sister Sophia Mermaid, the Drifter, and the Tea Shell

    The Old Mermaids built the Tea Shell on the edge of the Old Mermaid Sanctuary where they had made their homes since the Old Sea dried up & they had washed up onto the shoes of the New Desert like moon beautiful pieces of driftwood. They served...

  • Storm Poet

    It hasn’t rained in Michigan for a long while, and Billy Forché’s parents are worried they will lose the farm. Billy is tired of his silent father and is glad when his father’s stepbrother, Andrew Forché, comes to the farm to dry out and brin...

  • Deathmark

    Everyone has a deathmark, eventually. 16-year-old Michael and his mother have been running from the Shadow Woman for as long as Michael can remember. Every time they begin to settle in somewhere, the Shadow Woman shows up and people start to die. Now...

  • The Blue Tail

    SERENA BLUE LIVES for one thing: to spend time with her boyfriend. She can’t stand the stories of the Old Mermaids her mother constantly tells, and she suspects her own family’s sanity when she learns her grandmother believes she once lived as a ...

  • Sister Bea Wilder Mermaid and the Carved Bird

    Sister Bea Wilder Mermaid is restless after the Old Mermaids walk out of the Old Sea and into the New Desert. She wanders the desert near the Old Mermaids Sanctuary. She can’t seem to find peace or rest until she meets Annie, the Woman Who Loves Bi...

  • The Fish Wife

    An ancient Irish curse holds Sara in its grip: Cormac MacDougal steals her red cap which means she must become his fish wife or she and her unborn child will die. One night she can bear her life no longer, and she seeks out her true love, Ian McLaugh...

  • The First Book of Old Mermaids Tales

    WHEN THE OLD sea dries up, the Old Mermaids find themselves washed up on the new desert. These tales of the Old Mermaids remind us of the beauty all around us, even on those days when we wonder how we’ll survive, let alone thrive. Sister Ruby Rosar...



  • Sister Ruby Rosarita Mermaid and the Storytelling Soup

    When the Old Sea dried up and the Old Mermaids found themselves on the New Desert, Sister Ruby Rosarita Mermaid discovered she could cook soups. And not just any soups, but soups infused with magic, joy, love, and sustenance. When the Peppermans come...

  • At a Window Facing West

    On a vacation in Mexico, Maggie has no patience for her fearful brother-in-law until one night when she witnesses something that changes her life forever. Now she is afraid, too. But will facing her fears be the beginning of her healing or the end of...

  • Bloodletting

    Things started going badly for Anna after the car accident. For one thing, she started noticing all the strange things happening in her community: People were killing one another. For another thing, Anna’s blood was beginning to talk to her, and sh...

  • Blossoms

    Mara is dying, the victim of a painful disease that has fused her bones together. Only in free fall can she move without pain. As a zero-G dancer on a space station, Mara meets a mysterious Japanese gardener and his cat, Magic. People say he can fix ...

  • Carino

    Cully and Jake welcome into their home David, a refugee fleeing from the atrocities in El Salvador. Cully feels an inexplicable kinship with David who has lost most of his family in the bloody war. But is he safe with them on the Oregon coast, so far...

  • Cycles

    She won’t eat. Her mother and grandmother try to get her to eat something, but she refuses. If she doesn’t eat, maybe the thing growing inside of her will die. She is not her mother or her grandmother, despite appearances to the contrary. One way...

  • Desire

    She comes to stay at the lighthouse keeper’s old home because the ghosts of the place have been calling her for many years; now she’s ready to hear what they have to say. The ghosts do begin appearing, only they don’t act like they’re dead at...

  • Fractures

    Adam loves Lina and Lina loves Adam. Unfortunately, Lina is one of three personalities inhabiting the body of Teresa who is growing increasingly unhappy with her life. She wants Lina and Nick (the third personality) gone. On top of that, Lina keeps t...

  • Hauntings

    Kate Hein keeps hearing someone calling her name in the old farmhouse where she lives alone. Is the place haunted or is something wrong with her? One night a group of ghostly figures shimmer into view. They’re sitting around a table at what looks l...

  • Her Frozen Wild

    Scientists in Siberia uncover the 2,500 year old frozen mummy of a tattooed priestess. This mummy has the same genetic material as American archaeologist Ursula Smith whose mother disappeared in Siberia 30 years earlier. Ursula travels from the U.S. ...



  • Hollows

    Faith lives alone on the Oregon coast after the tragic death of her husband Jack. She is like a ghost in her own home until a strange young man shows up on her doorstep. ...

  • The Mark of the Beast

    On his way to M. Garnier’s chateau, Jean-Jacques Rieux gets lost in the forest and is rescued by a mysterious woman who turns out to be Garnier’s much younger wife, Marie. Garnier claims she has the mark of the beast on her because her parents we...

  • Out of the Womb

    Carey lives on the generation spaceship Mercury with her parents and thousands of other space travelers. Her parents are Colonists who believe they have a right to leave the ship and colonize a habitable planet. The Counselors, who make the laws and ...

  • Sarah, Unbound

    Sarah panics when she has a dream about her young client, Paul, who is in therapy after he saw his mother kill herself. What if she is really like her father and brother, both of them child-molesters? Sarah must learn to free herself from her past so...

  • Trudging to Eden

    Erin Ryan is hired by a rich and powerful woman to find her kidnapped genetically altered son, Benjamin Grey, who can “sing like an angel.” Ryan and her partner Walker are soon tracking Benjamin across the galaxy. As they get closer to finding hi...

  • Windows

    On a vacation in Mexico, Maggie has no patience for her fearful brother-in-law until one night when she witnesses something that changes her life forever. Now she is afraid, too. But will facing her fears be the beginning of her healing or the end of...

  • The Involuted Man

    When the widower Ebbers volunteers to participate in a drug experiment to enhance memory, all Ebbers wants is to remember his life with his wife, even though the scientists warn him that he may be getting more than he bargained for. ...

  • A Leash of Lovers

    Samuel and Richard have been together for centuries, bound by the disease that makes them vampires. One evening, they meet their new neighbor, Caroline, and everything changes. (This short story was originally published in Tomorrow: Speculative Ficti...

  • Occupant

    Peter Gibson wants to be alone. He leaves his girlfriend and his job in California to become the great American writer living in a small town in New England. But Peter soon learns that being anonymous and alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. ...

  • Queen of the Boneyard

    Star is tired of her life with her mother on the carnival circuit. Her father is long gone after beating both Star and her mother some years back. The only bright spots in Star’s life are her memories of Grandma Macha -- and those were beginning to...



  • Sister Faye Mermaid and the Sleeping Beauties

    The Old Sea dried up and the Old Mermaids washed up on the shores of the New Desert and created a new home and a new life. In the midst of all of this one night, Sister Faye Mermaid cannot sleep and wonders what this new life will mean for her....

  • Swans in Winter

    India Lake loves the wild and she will do anything to protect it -- including taking off her clothes. India Lake is in the middle of a full blown mid-life crisis. Her love life is stalled, to say the least. And her boss forces her to take a two-month...

  • Mourning Period

    Calder moves from Boston to the Oregon coast to be alone and mourn the recent death of his wife, Tara. Only he is not alone: Tara is haunting him. At first this comforts him. But then things begin to change. (short story)Includes bonus story: “The ...

  • Jewelweed Station

    When her beloved parents die in a carriage accident near their plantation in Virginia, 17-year-old Callie Carter comes home from France to discover her loathsome aunt and uncle have taken up residence in her home and are now her legal guardians. They...

  • Tales Fabulous and Fairy

    Enter the enchanting and exotic world of Kim Antieau’s imagination in these eight stories inspired by classic folk and fairy tales. This collection includes the following stories: "The Foundling," "Seeing Pink," "Briar Rose," "Dragon Pearl," "Rose ...

  • Butch

    Santa Tierra, New Mexico, 1918Anything can happen in the weird and wonderful town of Santa Tierra where Butch McLean protects the residents of Wayward Ranch, finds lovin’ in the arms and up the skirts of her beloved Angel, and keeps one step ahead ...

  • Fun With Vic and Jane

    Jane wants to save the world; Vic does not. Jane doesn’t understand men; Vic is man’s best friend. Jane is an angst-ridden woman; Vic is a laid back dog. Jane seeks to unleash the powers of love, compassion, and justice; Vic favors visits to the ...

  • Whackadoodle Times

    Brooke McMurphy is having one helluva week.Brooke’s well-constructed dysfunctional life in Hollywood begins to unravel when a homeless woman comes to live with her and her family and the studio asks her to sex up her husband’s script for Zombie T...

  • The Desert Siren

    Connie once yearned for a life filled with imagination and passion but settled for life on the family’s ranch in the Arizona borderlands. She doesn’t think about the life she could have had until her husband deserts her and leaves Connie broke an...

  • The Rift

    Maggie lives on the edge of Tucson where she edits technical manuals and creates medicine from desert plants until one morning when she hears her dead dog barking, a stranger shows up in her driveway, and an unexplainable rift appears in the land, se...



  • The Monster's Daughter

    Doctor Frankenstein’s monster has a daughter.
    Her name is Emily. She talks to the Weather, stops Fire, and possesses healing hands. Emily and her father move out West where even freaks of science or nature can make a life and a fortune. The Wes...

  • Good Neighbors

    Deputy Colleen "CeeCee" Connor thinks she has seen it all, serving and protecting the people in her rural county in Washington state -- until she flattens some thing with her squad car -- some thing that looks like a miniature human being and groans ...

  • Whackadoodle Times Two

    Following the success of her megahit film Beauty and the Zombie, Hollywood screenwriter Brooke McMurphy’s life once again spirals out of control. In the course of 48 hours, she’s involved in a robbery, juggles multiple blackmailers, gets advice f...

  • Maternal Instincts

    An impulsive ex-cop with her share of troubles, Katie Kelly retreats to Beauty Falls, the small Pacific Northwest town where she spent her summers as a teen until the night she and five of her friends went into the woods and only four came out. Now, ...

  • Arrivals

  • May Day

  • Summit

  • Feast

    Kim Antieau dazzles readers with stunning tales of our world in novels like The Jigsaw Woman and The Gaia Websters. She does it again with Queendom: Feast of the Saints, an epic saga of empire and family brought to the brink of destruction. Hundreds ...

  • Interlude

  • Queendom: Feast of the Saints

    Kim Antieau dazzles readers with stunning tales of our world in novels like The Jigsaw Woman and The Gaia Websters. She does it again with Queendom: Feast of the Saints, an epic saga of empire and family brought to the brink of destruction. Hundreds ...

  • The Girl in the Red Coat

    Bus driver Ed Samuels is tired of working overtime just because someone is killing women in Ann Arbor. Why is it his problem? One night he refuses to wait for a woman who is trying to get to the bus stop. The next morning he hears on the news that an...

  • Haunted

    Kim Antieau’s brilliant short stories have dazzled readers for decades. As bestselling writer Charles de Lint once wrote, Kim’s prose is always “evocative, even in the grittiest of her stories. I believe in her characters so readily that someti...

  • Killing Beauty

    Unfinished is the worst kind of business, and newly minted ex-cop Katie Kelly can do without the reminders of a shocking crime from 30 summers ago. Katie’s return to Beauty Falls triggers a round of soul-searching and painful memories of the time w...

  • Whackadoodle Times Three

    Disasters both natural and unnatural plague Brooke during the week she must deliver the script for the latest installment of her zombie movie franchise. Epic lightning storms strike the landscape, her intimate life is made public, her daughter may be...

  • Whackadoodle Times Galore

    Everyone knows Brooke McMurphy as the mastermind behind the monster hit zombie movies starting with Beauty and the Zombie. Most people don't know the incredible story of Brooke's battles with demons both personal and natural. In this complete edition...

  • The Annotated Church of the Old Mermaids

    Myla Alvarez, novice, walks into the Sonoran Desert and begins telling stories about the Old Mermaids who washed ashore onto the New Desert when the Old Sea dried up. In this mystical new world, they lived, created, and walked in beauty. Myla finds s...

  • The Second Book of Old Mermaids Tales

    The Old Sea still calls to the Old Mermaids, but their adventures in the New Desert ease their heartache and keep them from missing their former lives too much. This follow-up to The First Book Of Old Mermaids Tales is filled with just as much charm,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kim Antieau has published 66 books.

Kim Antieau does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Second Book of Old Mermaids Tales, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Kim Antieau, The Jigsaw Woman, was published in March 1996.

No. Kim Antieau does not write books in series.
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