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Stephanie Caye grew up in Michigan wanting to be a famed, reclusive novelist.Then she moved to Texas, got a job in tech, started volunteering with shelter cats and dropped both “famed” and“reclusive” from her childhood dream.She now lives in Montreal--happy to have four seasons again--still working in tech, still volunteering with cats, and still writing.A former recipient of a University of Michigan Hopwood award for writing, she published her first urban fantasy novel, THE FLAWS OF GRAVITY, in 2022 and followed it up with two more books in the GRAVITY'S DAUGHTER series.
The GRAVITY'S DAUGHTER Series
Book 1: THE FLAWS OF GRAVITY (2022)
The existence of tequila is at stake. Oh, and humanity too.Jude Waldron's playing both sides of a supernatural cold war. While collecting a paycheque from a secret human organization fighting against the Faerie Court, she’s also helping her friend and mentor Aubrie search for illicit magic. But when Aubrie’s true scheme pits her violently against her human colleagues on his behalf, the half-Faerie renegade finds herself taking the fall—literally.Now Jude’s ready to cut and run, destination: “The Hell Away from This Mess.” Bonus points if there's a warm beach nearby. Before she can pack a bag, a shady group of Faeries traps her, demanding she steal a spellbook for them—the same book Aubrie wants. She’ll have to face off with catty pixies, vicious sirens, a calculating dragon and a pissed off ex-boyfriend in pursuit of a prize that could merge the human and Faerie worlds into a chaotic nightmare. If she pulls it off, Jude will win her freedom along with safe, anonymous passage to her chosen sandy paradise. And, right, save two worlds.Good thing she’s got her heart set on umbrella drinks—and revenge.
Book 2: A TRICK OF THE SHADE (2023)
You can’t put ‘Just saved the world (you’re welcome)’ on a resume. Ask me how I know.Jude’s drifting in Montreal, low on both funds and purpose. Eking out a normal life is surprisingly difficult for someone whose strongest marketable skill is her ability to manipulate gravity. Who knew landing a steady job would be a bigger challenge than hunting supernatural creatures?Then her scant few acquaintances begin turning up dead around the city, their hearts missing. All signs point to a vicious shade—a Faerie cursed to live forever in a ghoulish fate worse than death—as the culprit. But Jude’s never even heard of shades before now, so why do these killings seem designed to bait her?Racing to find the answer and stop the murders brings her to old friends, new enemies and every shifty variation in-between. While risking life and limb battling a sinister Faerie monster may not be ‘normal,’ it’s a routine Jude knows by heart.And it beats working retail.
Book 3: STARK RAVING MAB (2024)
Running away sounds great in theory—escape your past, clean the slate. But then, surprise! There’s no one around to help you when you accidentally become the Faerie Queen.Five months after leaving Montreal, Jude’s settled into a magic-free life on the west coast. Her grudgingly quiet existence is shattered when she suffers an unnatural seizure and a stranger shows up on her doorstep. The fact that he bows to her is bad enough, but the news he brings is worse: her aunt Miranda is dead.Which makes Jude the Mab.It doesn’t matter that she’s half-human, that up until recently she worked for the Consilium, or that she’s still carrying a torch for one of the Faerie Court’s few remaining human adversaries. The Court expects her to don the crown, adopt an appropriate heir and run a world that she can’t even enter. On top of that, her ruthless father turns up demanding an audience and the manipulative Archduke is ready to call in the favour she owes him.With her enemies multiplying by the minute, Jude’s on track to be more than just the first half-human queen of Faerie—she might also have the shortest reign of any Mab in history.It’s a record she’d be happy to claim if it didn’t mean dying.