Amy Laurens

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  • Bibliography:
    85 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Kaditeos

1 - How Not To Acquire A Castle (Nov-2018)

Sanctuary

1 - Where Shadows Rise (Apr-2017)
2 - Through Roads Between (Sep-2017)
3 - When Worlds Collide (Aug-2018)

Storm Foxes

1 - A Fox Of Storms And Starlight (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 85 titles

  • Forget

    Simon Baker, 86, aging rapidly in an aged care facility. Just an ordinary man, coming to the end of an ordinary life…Except something else tickles the edges of his mind—of his memory. If only he could remember his real identity. Before t...

  • With This Ring

    Selkies and swan maidens... Everyone knows the European tales of these innocent changelings, captured by greedy humans. Now meet them Down Under. Platypuses like Orkney: playful creatures, gentle water animals not known for their aggression. For a co...

  • To Dust and Other Stories

    Welcome to a land where ignorance kills. The only way to survive is to walk the difficult road and stand against the dark. The maliche are devouring Imber’s world, and in To Dust, the only tool she has to stop them is a magic box. Shame the only on...

  • Cherry Blossom and Other Stories

    The important moments in life are as fleeting as cherry blossom. Love and family are just as ephemeral. 

    In Cherry Blossom, Ambrose discovers that his quest for immortality brought him more than he bargained for. Can he fin...

  • Where Your Treasure Is

    In a series of plays written for a teen audience, “Where Your Treasure Is” explores a variety of Christian concepts, from the real meaning of trust, freedom and forgiveness, to the importance of exercising the gifts we have been given. Plays rang...

  • Darkness and Good

    From the 'Darkness and Good' blog comes a collection of fans' favourite stories, all in one convenient volume. Come read about gods and monsters, unicorns and shapeshifters, magical worlds and galaxies far, far away! Head to our website, http://darkn...

  • Where Shadows Rise

    Sanctuary - 1

    The fairies have a secret they’re just dying to protect…

    Emma knows breaking the rules can get you into trouble; it nearly got her sister killed. That’s why Emma’s stuck in backwater Nowra, Australia, under temporary witness protecti...

  • Of Sea Foam and Blood

    Welcome to a land where ignorance kills. The only way to survive is to walk the difficult road and stand against the dark. In The Wasporcist, Lily grows tired of everyone thinking she's mad. She knows the buzzing in her ears is more than her imaginat...

  • Through Roads Between

    Sanctuary - 2

    Sanctuary is a place of safety -- or so the fairies say... Edge is ready to return to a normal life, after beating back the shadows and defeating the Valley. Even Scott -- bane of her existence -- has been relatively well behaved since their encounte...



  • When Worlds Collide

    Sanctuary - 3

    This is what the fairies never wanted you to know… Edge Tanning gets things done. She vanquished the shadows that were threatening Sanctuary, she saved her best friend from the Valley -- and she called the power of Sanctuary, magical home of the fa...

  • How Not To Acquire A Castle

    Kaditeos - 1

    Evil Overlord in training? Check. Successfully hidden the true depths of her powers for four years so no one kills her? Check. Graduating at the top of her class from the Evil Overlord Academy so she can acquire her castle? ...Uncertain. And M...

  • Another Kind of Hunger

    Usually, Scott gets home to one of his mother's crazy rants.

    Today? Silence.

    Which makes a nice change--except that today, evil shadows lurk in the pantry where the food should be.

    Can Scott track down his mother, banish the shad...

  • The Wasporcist

    Her ears buzz, day and night, like a wasp has taken up residence in her brain.

    The solution? Call whoever it takes to get rid of it. No matter what the cost.

    If you love stories that leave you glancing over your shoulder with a chill...

  • A Final Request For Mercy

    Abbi the Labrador loves her people—but she loves her bunny friend Zac even more. So when he pleads with her to let him out of his cage one night, she does.

    Even though it’s the wrong thing to do. 

    Even though the conse...

  • Answer The Question

    Ellie looks forward to her regular spa visits. Running into that jerk Brandr again? Not so much. Too pretty for anyone's good, Brandr arouses lust in everyone he meets--and Ellie hates the way he inspires her body to burn. She knows what she wants ou...

  • Happily, Red

    Springtime promises hang in the air. And Red wants her happy ending--no matter what her mother might have said.No matter what the cost. A darkly optimistic sequel to the Little Red Riding Hood tale, for people who want to believe in hope. **Romantic ...

  • Dreaming of Forests

    Deena wakes on a cold, Australian morning to a spontaneous forest, sprung up overnight while she slept.The other tent? Gone. Friends? Gone. Phone reception? None. Temperatures? Falling. Fast. Now Deena must figure out where the forest came from -- an...

  • Dragon Tuesday

    On a hot and stuffy afternoon, Chay and Sham want ice cream--and to spot the strange dragon that appears on the streets every Tuesday first this time.

    But when a metallic, boxy beast appears blowing smoke and vomiting people, what Chay gets...

  • Cherry Blossom

    Ambrose sits alone in utter darkness, in a house nobody wanted, on a rug nobody loved, about to reach the pinnacle of all his dreams and hopes and plans. What a pity it requires his death first.Let's just hope the prize makes the price worthwhile. A ...



  • Alone

    Soulbonds mean a slow, lingering death for those who carry them--and Guiro's soulbond is nearly at an end. But if he dies near other people, the soulbond will jump to them.

    And so, at the end of a long, cobbled alleyway, Guiro lingers over ...

  • To Dust

    The stinking, rotting Maliche devour the world, one city at a time, taking death away from humanity and replacing it with a shambling, eternal half-life.

    Imber holds the box, a magic box, that may be the key to the Maliche's destruction.

  • Interchange

    The bad: Fed up with James trying to run her life, Ella hangs up on her boyfriend at the bus stop.

    The worse: Having to share the bus ride home with middle-aged drifters.

    But the worst of all? The skinny, shell of a man in the busines...

  • Dear Santa

    Tommy, aged five, pens his Christmas letter. His request? More brains for his family; they just don't understand him.

    He begs his mum to post the letter. With only one day left, it may not get there in time--he might end up with no presents...

  • The Quilt-Maker's Scrap

    A plain, ugly scrap lives in a quilt-maker's basket, surrounded by brighter and more beautiful scraps.

    The ugly scrap longs for a purpose, a quilt to call home... but it might as well dream of flying.

    Until one day, its life changes f...

  • The Powers That Be

    The medical assembly has finally arrested the last existing Power, one of the super-powered, nearly-immortal beings tasked with preserving the balance of the world. All too often, though, their battles have ravaged cities, so the capture of the last ...

  • Certified and Seven Things

    Certified to bring tagged people back from the dead, Anna knows responsibility. So when Millicent, local school bully, approaches Anna to raise Millicent's boyfriend Victor, Anna does the right thing: she refuses. Victor has no tag. But now? Millicen...

  • Anything For You and As Long As I Live

    Tonight: the formal dance. Everything she ever dreamed of. But the face looking back in the mirror? About three shades too orange. She needs to exchange this foundation pronto, before her plans-and dreams-for the night burn down. Because tonight will...

  • Sea Foam And Blood

    Welcome to a land where ignorance kills. The only way to survive is to walk the difficult road and stand against the dark.In The Wasporcist, Lily grows tired of everyone thinking she's mad. She knows the buzzing in her ears is more than her imaginati...

  • Trust Issues

    The only reason Becca agree to this date? Her sister threatened her with a never-ending parade of suitors if she refused. Becca dreads the night of forced chit-chat with the one man she wants to see less than anyone else in the world. And to make mat...



  • When War Came To Town

    The small town of Renph: a cosy, happy little place-at least until recently. Now, violence explodes in the streets, rumours whisper in the dark, and people hang in the square. And no one knows why. No one-except Tikva. But what can a seven-year-old d...

  • Not Fantasy

    Meet Beth, young, hopeful, and a staunch believer in all things magical-made easier by the fact that she owns a talking pink tortoise and a hyperactive pen.Meet her creative writing professor, Mr Sedriane, who refuses to allow his students to write a...

  • At The Home Of The Winter King

    Zac, young, smart and adventures, roams the eucalypt bush and pine forest around his house to his heart's content. But not over the old train tracks. Never that far. Until one day, he feels something magical calling...He knows he should ignore it. Bu...

  • A Fox Of Storms And Starlight

    Storm Foxes - 1

    Six years ago, Mina saved a fox in the bush. As thunder growled and lightning flashed, she thought she saw… something. Now, as graduation draws near and Mina plots her escape from backcountry Jilamatang to big-city Sydney, the town trembl...

  • Oath Keeper

    Tired, war-weary and worn, he longs for peace-and home. But the smell of blood reaches him as he travels: a giant, half-dead dragon-and a gang of bandits guarding it. He swore to never kill again. But once again, he faces a choice. Because today, som...

  • Adam, Be A Star and The Claustrophobia Of Loneliness

    On the moon, the sole survivors of a terrestrial plague keep each other company.But when you have the whole moon to fill, two is a very small number.Can they persevere, for the sake of the human race, their lives—and their sanity?A very short s...

  • The Claustrophobia of Loneliness and Adam, Be A Star

    On the moon, the sole survivors of a terrestrial plague keep each other company.But when you have the whole moon to fill, two is a very small number. Can they persevere, for the sake of the human race, their lives-and their sanity?A very short story ...

  • One Bad Man

    She waits on a frosty street corner in old Russia, armed with the gadgets her sponsor gave her. Ivanov draws near-to her, to his death. But first, she needs to know: Vasiliy Ivanov, good man or bad? Killing a good man risks her integrity-and her soul...

  • Confessions

    In a world where only priests make art, she listens as strange noises range outside her cell. She assumed the authorities wanted to question her about her little brother. But the truth? Much more sinister than that. The price for her transgressions? ...

  • But For Snow

    The markets crowd her senses, busy with sound and bustle and smells. Tundra needs to escape the sensory overload-she needs to run. That means sneaking away from her mother, of course. Tricky, but not impossible. And what she finds? Something that pro...



  • It All Changes Now

    Flash fiction: stories under 1200 words. One single moment: everything changes. From solving the problem of a misfiring mechanical beast to escaping from enforced solitude, from human-fey wars for control of sentient dragon tattoos to assassins and g...

  • Anamata

    Adela never imagined her life would end here: alone in a filthy spare room with a bucket for a toilet after days on days of torture. But she can wait a few days for her captors to tire of her-or she can save them the trouble. Not that they left anyth...

  • A Wolf For Christmas

    Kitty's husband returns from the magical war distant and reserved. To help him recover, she plans the perfect-albeit belated-Christmas. Red and gold ornaments. Boxes with bows. She hopes her husband loves everything, even the present under the tree t...

  • Inkprint Press Reader's Guide

    The official guide to Inkprint's entire catalogue of fantasy, sci fi and romance fiction!This guide offers an official introduction to novels and short stories by Inkprint Press's four authors, Liana Brooks, Amy Laurens, J.C. Nelson and Thea van Diep...

  • Tower Of Souls

    Every year, the tower fills with the souls of the dead. Every year, the city throws someone living in to lead the dead to the afterlife. Few succeed. Most join the dead. This year, it's Feya's turn.A very short story about confronting your fears-and ...

  • Rush Job

    Thief, spy, assassin, Intergalactic Police investigator... Jaime keeps the peace however necessary, ensuring civilisation-ending discoveries stay secret... as a random example. One in no way tied to the rush job the IGP just assigned her.IGP want Jam...

  • The Day The Dog First Called

    The strange visitor arrives in the nick of time, just as Natalie contemplates giving in to the feelers of darkness that surround her. She can stay strong long enough to entertain a guest. But after that? Who knows. A hopeful tale for everyone beset b...

  • Nature vs. Nurture

    Parent-teacher interviews: a teacher's worse nightmare. Especially with a parent like Alison Young. Can this teacher find a way to solve this problem without getting everyone off side?A slipstream sci-fi story that reminds us all that we control our ...

  • Allure

    The rockets launch day and night, without ceasing, without fail-even on Christmas. In twelve hours, Sara's fiancée Ash must board one of them and leave her behind forever; Government duty calls. So Sara vows to ensure their last night on Earth t...

  • Aftermath and Food Me Once

    The demon she slew last night? Itty bitty. Teeny tiny. Super easy to exorcise.But this morning, her hands tremble and her jaw twitches.Her friend Cran better not surprise her.Her jaw's not the only thing feeling twitchy.A pair of demon stories for ev...



  • Aftermath and Fool Me Once

    The demon she slew last night? Itty bitty. Teeny tiny. Super easy to exorcise. But this morning, her hands tremble and her jaw twitches. Her friend Cran better not surprise her. Her jaw's not the only thing feeling twitchy. A pair of demon stories fo...

  • Purity

    The city crumbles, concrete decaying, plastic corroding...They hunt one of the beasts causing the destruction to a petrol station, crumbling and leaking fuel throughout the parking lot.The task: get in, slay the beast, and get out before the approach...

  • Bones Of The Sea

    Winner 2021 Aurealis Awards Best Fantasy Novella Due to a fortuitous combination of luck, caution and common sense, Lucy makes it to fourteen without seeing the Mist - carnivorous, ravenous, rolling in through the forest from the sea every few y...

  • A Kiss Is The Secret

    Nuns, possibly magical-Mary never could get the story from her mother straight-raised her mother. They provided her food, and care, and love-and left her with a legacy. Because when Mary reached maturity, it came with a surprise: plant magic. But Mar...

  • Fire Bright

    The absolute last thing Adela wants? Rather, um, heated dreams about Jiri, her school archnemesis now on the opposite side of a violent, magical culture war. Unfortunately, her subconscious disagrees. Or the magical fate potion An...

  • Just So Long As You're Happy

    Everyone adores Morgan. Except Daddy. But Morgan can fix that. Never mind the price. A short, heart-wrenching tale about the unintended consequences of our desires—and super powers. ...

  • Shoe

    Jenna finds an abandoned shoe on the side of the road, unaware that the shoe waits deliberately. Inexplicably drawn to the shoe, Jenna takes it home. But what the shoe wants from her? A price she never wanted to pay… A short, ch...

  • Desperate Measures

    Katrina just wants the perfect dress for her wedding day. But the dress shop makes error after error.Desperation sets in. But even Katrina underestimates the consequences of the dress shop's mistakes…A short horror tale about the dangers of ag...

  • The Remarkable Insight Of Jellybeans and Understanding

    She sits on the lounge with her partner, sharing an unfulfilling jar of jellybeans. For the first time in her life, she dares to dream of something more. If only she could find the courage to act. For everyone who dreams of freedom, and of ...

  • The Other Carly

    The last time Joanna saw Ryan, someone died. Still, unlike everyone else, Joanna trusts Ryan. But does she trust him enough to help her enact revenge on her high school nemesis, who bullies her cruelly and mercilessly? Does she need to trus...

  • Bs By Bioluminescent Light

    She waits alone on the dark park bench, missing the family who no longer call. She waits for the tiny pollinators who fill the park each night—if not her life's triumph, then at least something she feels rightly proud of.If only she had someone...

  • The Ice Cream Crown Skating Races

    Every year, the town of Linderch gathers to watch the Ice Cream Crown Skating Races, a series of trick races skated on a pond of magically deep-frozen ice cream.This year, fourteen-year-old George intends to win. If he loses, his family loses th...

  • The Ice Cream Skating Races

    Every year, the town of Linderch gathers to watch the Ice Cream Crown Skating Races, a series of trick races skated on a pond of magically deep-frozen ice cream. This year, fourteen-year-old George intends to win. If he loses, his family loses their ...

  • Rest For The Wicked

    On her way home from her day job in the middle of a heatwave, all Linny wants from life right now? A cold shower.Then the head of her dive team pages: a salvage job out on the reef. Even better than a shower — if Linny gets there in time.She'd ...

  • The Chaos Shark

    The summer sun bakes the boat, the catch, and the bait. Everything stinks of salt and prawns, and Ellie just needs a break.Falling overboard trying to reach her brother's litter? Not quite the break she intended. But Ellie takes advantage of the oppo...

  • Crystalline And Bright

    The voices haunt Amberly — or rather, they nag her, a constant, invisible stream of criticism keeping her company while she survives a boarding school where none but a few teachers like her.A good thing the milky-teal river at the edge of the s...

  • Sorcerers Always Lie

    Adela's hand? Burning with pain from a magical bullet strike. Hard to concentrate with that much pain distracting you.She must push it aside and raise the protective bubble around their campsite though, because the middle of a guerrilla warzone? Yeah...

  • Shadows Never Lie

    Candance jogs through the hot city evening—something that usually brings her calm. But tonight, she attends the biggest work event of her life. Nerves about the dinner keep plaguing her.Then she trips over a little old woman in the street. The ...

  • April Showers

    Six stories written during April of 2020, April Showers draws together the fantastic made ordinary, and the fantastic in the ordinary. These rainy-day stories celebrate moments of peace amid chaos, the value of family, and the extraordinary adaptabil...

  • Perfect Destruction

    Kiana's last day at the magically-charged fence that protects the world from hyper-destructive unicorns: A day of celebration, right?Not when the extraction team runs late and an ominous storm brews—and her partner has been keeping a potentiall...

  • What Blood Can Do

    Her father murdered her mother right in front of her. Of course that left traumatic scars.But in her quest for revenge, she discovers nothing about her life matches her beliefs.Confronted with the choice, revenge or truth, she must decide what she is...

  • As Time Whirls Slowly Past

    A peed-on stuffed unicorn, children who refuse to go to sleep, and a husband absent for five more days: not Ashley's description of an ideal evening.But maybe, with a little shift in perspective, she can still salvage the rest of her night…A h...

  • Far More Satisfying Than Hell

    Imprisoned in a back bedroom with a darkness deeper than any lack of light for company, Ava bides her time. Fury boils inside her, keeping her going, giving her purpose. Soon-very soon-she can let her rage spill over... And her captors won't kno...

  • Moon And Morning

    Rory appreciates her big, sprawling family—and the beauty of twilight down at the lake—but sometimes she wishes she felt a little bit less like a freakish unicorn and a little bit more like she belonged.Then a strange (cute) boy trips ove...

  • Some Impropriety Expected

    Nobody suspects good-natured Skribs's real job as assassin for the queen.Everyone else's eyes? Diverted by the gruesome horrors the Northern ambassador brings for show.But Skribs's attention? Fixed where it really matters: protecting his queen's back...

  • More Than Mushrooms

    The silver silence out in the forest refreshes Lily's spirits after being housebound with her family for the last three weeks. Hoping for mushrooms, instead Lily finds… something else. Something unidentifiable.Something with the power to remin...

  • Caught In The Act

    Thanks to Lifetime Clinic's time capsule serum, anyone can now live forever—for the low, low price of two million dollars annually.A trio of enterprising thieves attempt to steal one of the capsules… And the sound tech responsible for pr...

  • Love In The Time Of Corona

    The coronavirus lockdown means that Saria's anxiety flares even when hanging the washing. Pegs all the same colour would help… If she can brave the trip to the shops.Out of toilet paper, Dan heads to the store, prepared to fight for one last r...

  • Recruitment

    The sun sinks toward the horizon and sweat drips down Dave's face as he waits by a deserted road for something—or someone—unknown.This job interview? Not quite matching his expectations. But then again, in the middle of a war between huma...

  • Curses With Benefits

    Wrestling with insomnia leaves Harry desperate enough to do the unthinkable: summon a demon for assistance.Naturally he gets more than he bargained for in this two-for-one deal that leaves him fighting for an unexpected ally's life.Of course, unexpec...

  • On The Origin Of Paranormal Species

    Why do werewolves transform with the moon? When did mermaids get their tails? What sinister history underpins the goblin? Uncover the answers to these questions - and more! - in this collection of seven essays from award-winning author Amy Laurens. F...

  • And Then I Shall Transform

    Six magical fantasy stories of transformation.In Which Leaves Are Common Sense: No one tells you what to do when your hiking buddy has a sudden attack of lunar-cy and turns into a werewolf three days before the full moon. Annoying at any time, but o...

  • Touchstone

    Six magical fantasy stories of transformation.In Which Leaves Are Common Sense: No one tells you what to do when your hiking buddy has a sudden attack of lunar-cy and turns into a werewolf three days before the full moon. Annoying at any time, but on...

  • All The Things We Saved You From

    To the casual observer, the light shines spectacularly, bathing the skyscraper in the middle of an oaken nowhere, setting windows aglimmer as the sun sinks toward the horizon. To Tristan, however, the bittersweet light both fills him with indescribab...

  • Christmas Miracle Is Just A Saying

    Arabella's Christmas Eve out on the town turns to disaster when she drags her best friend, Jenson the wereshark, down to the beach for a calming swim. A swim? Absolutely. Calming? ...Not exactly. With lives now at stake, Arabella needs a miracle, and...

  • Mint Grows Even In The Dark

    Claire knows where to find the people reported as 'missing under suspicious circumstances'. Unfortunately, telling the authorities means Claire risks taking the blame for the disappearances. Infuriating.Instead, if Claire wants to see justice in the ...

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Amy Laurens has published 85 books.

The next book by Amy Laurens, Mint Grows Even In The Dark, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Amy Laurens, With This Ring, was published in July 2011.

Yes. Amy Laurens has 3 series.
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