Cat Hellisen

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2012
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Beastkeeper (Feb-2015)

Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • When the Sea Is Rising Red

    After seventeen-year-old Felicita's dearest friend Ilven kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg's magical elite behind. Living i...

  • Mother, Crone, Maiden

    Knowing the future is not about knowing the future. It’s about knowing which path to take. Ilven comes from a family of Saints -- future-tellers -- but she knows her father didn’t waste more than a few grains of the precious drug scriv to see...

  • House of Sand and Secrets

    Sometimes playing to lose is the only way to survive the game of Houses. Trapped in a hasty marriage to lower-caste Jannik and trying to make the best of their exile, Felicita is immersed in the machinations of the powerful ruling families. MallenIve...

  • Beastkeeper

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

    Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from. ...

  • Charm

    Irene Kerry has grown up with the memory of her mother's suicide, and has been in love with her best friend Rain for as long as she can remember. She thinks she's dealing with both just fine until the day her best friend falls in love with a much old...

  • Oma Zoli's Mirror

    Dylan McKenzie is a collector of magical artifacts from this world and others, but when a voice underground tells him to look for his heart's desire, he is pulled into the web of a fallen goddess, sent to murder her sister and bring back her soul.Oma...

  • Empty Monsters

    Aden Onnery is the eldest son of a family of midwives who use their power to eradicate magic. As a boy, he was never meant to take on the Onnery mantle, but an accident of birth has left him marked and strange. His whole life he has believed that the...

  • Learning How To Drown

    "Cat Hellisen is one of the most accomplished writers of African SFF. This fine collection gathers the best so far of her wondrous fictions." - Geoff Ryman, author of The Child Garden

    Cat Hellisen has the ability to conjure a sense of 'othe...

  • Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended



  • Bones Like Bridges

    War is coming to Oreyn. Magic is vanishing. Neither problem matters much to Jek until he is pulled out of the slums and forced into the world of the Great Houses. A bastard heir to a dying magical family, Jek is caught up in the scheming of...

  • King of the Hollow Dark

    Georgina Skyler Carey is not a necromancer. She's the daughter of one. And now she's dead. George has grown up hidden away, trying to live a normal life after her mother was executed for a ghost uprising which killed millions. Every year, t...

  • Cast Long Shadows

    Marjeta Petrell.Replacement bride, shadow of a dead and perfect wife, step-mother to a duke's treasured daughter.A girl out of her depth, alone and afraid.Magic runs deep in her veins, stitched in blood ties, embroidered with kindness and pain.In an ...

  • Thief Mage, Beggar Mage

    Tet is no longer a priest-mage; thrown out from his temple and cursed by his gods to return a stolen relic. With every passing year, the curse works deeper into his flesh, breaking and twisting him until finally, driven by pain, Tet makes a drastic p...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cat Hellisen has published 13 books.

Cat Hellisen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Thief Mage, Beggar Mage, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Cat Hellisen, When the Sea Is Rising Red, was published in March 2012.

No. Cat Hellisen does not write books in series.
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