K. A. Riley

Dragons used to live in old fairy tales. They’re about to wake up in a new one. Stormport—with its old stone castles on one side of Misery River—and Crystalbay—with its sleek, black skyscrapers on the other—have been feuding for five hundred years. The two kingdoms are different in...

On her 17th birthday, Ashen Spencer is blindfolded and escorted to the massive, mysterious building known as the Arc to begin her year of training and testing in hopes that she can earn the Cure - a powerful drug given only to those deemed worthy to survive beyond their 18th birthday....

The Thrall Series continues... Ever since her childhood arrival in the land known as the Peaks, Soleia has been raised by a cruel couple called the Hursts—with a son who’s even crueler than they are. When she encounters a thief in the Hursts’ cellar one awful day, a terrible truth rears...

Your seventeenth birthday is the last day you can count on. No one makes plans for eighteen. In the Valta, everyone turns a year older on November 1st. Turn seventeen, and the Recruiters come for you. No one ever hears from you again. Today, Kress is sixteen. Tomorrow, she’ll find out why...

Seventeen-year-old Saphee has a job: She kills princesses. Before you get all judgy, these aren’t the sweet, innocent princesses from your grandmother’s fairy tales. Sure, these girls are rich and gorgeous. One of them once even dated a frog.

After their overseas missions, Kress and her Conspiracy return home to a divided nation. The East and West Coasts have become fragile havens from a dystopian middle America, which remains mired in fear, poverty, and the most sadistic brands of vigilante violence. All Kress and her Conspiracy...

Embarking on a fresh set of adventures through France and Spain, Kress and her Conspiracy continue their search for fellow Emergents, unsure if they’re about to find new friends or the deadliest collection of enemies. With Noxia and her team of Hawkers hot on their heels, the Conspiracy will...

Thrall is based on the fairy tale Cinderella, the first in a new Dystopian Romance series by the author of Recruitment and The Cure. In the realm of Kravan, children of lower-class citizens are raised in a prison-like structure called "The Tower" from birth until adulthood. Known as the Tethered...

When Leta’s sister Lyrinn disappeared after the Blood Trials, there was only one thing for Leta to do: seek solace in the arms of Prince Corym, the most powerful mortal in Kalemnar. For months, she’s been living in the palace and reveling in a life of wealth and luxury. The prince wants to...

They’re getting played to death. Every year, 100 of the most dangerous convicted criminals from the impoverished Ward are given a chance to earn their freedom and to live a life of luxury in Nova Heights, the walled-in city of glass and steel estates built into the side of a mountain. All...

School’s out. And so are the rules. Accompanied by her best friends and Beynac, her faithful golden retriever service dog, 16-year-old Virtue is about to attempt a daring escape from Aegis Academy and from its infestation of deadly, mostly naked, and occasionally cannibalistic Virulents. Of...

Taken captive by a Fae whose cruelty is legendary throughout the realms of Kalemnar, Lyrinn must find a way to escape and get back to the High Lord she loves....

The 3:15 bell used to mean the end of class. Now, it means the end of everything. The Purple War is raging outside the protective walls of Aegis Academy. The infected, murderous Virulents are getting more aggressive on the inside....

For fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and other fantasy romance comes a tale filled with twists, turns, and passionate, forbidden desire. “I was a prisoner in these ruins, captive of a Fae who was as perilously alluring as the lands where I now stood.” A thousand years ago, the mortal...

After their costly victory over President Krug and the Patriot Army, 18-year-old Kress and her Conspiracy travel to a newly medieval London, England where they are forced to fight their way through two warring factions amid a decimated hellscape. Their struggle for survival takes them on an epic...

What happens when the first day of school is the last day of the world? For 16-year-old Virtue, navigating 11th grade is hard enough. Throw in the mass carnage of the Purple War, the brain-mangling Lemming Plague, and the overnight, post-apocalyptic breakdown of civilization, and suddenly...

After barely escaping with her life, Ashen finds her way home to the Arc thanks to the help of an old friend. After a long absence, Ash isn’t sure what she’s about to find. The Bishop’s deception and cruelty have turned her world upside down, leaving her reeling as a wedge is driven...

Encouraged by happy reunions, shocked by terrifying discoveries, and with the lives of millions and the fate of the nation hanging in the balance, Kress and her conspiracy—along with their new legions of allies, the Survivalists and the Unkindness—prepare for their final, all-or-nothing war...

When Ashen heads east to New York City to find Finn's brother, she finds herself confronted by an entirely new set of problems. The city is a war zone overshadowed by the Behemoth, the largest arcology in existence. Few are allowed entry and those who go in never leave. At first, Ashen assumes...

Captured by the group of rogue Emergents known as Hypnagogics, Kress and her Conspiracy search desperately for a way out of their confinement in a stadium-size prison-lab called the Mill....