Austin Ryan

Austin Ryan writes gentle fantasy romance shaped by libraries, folklore, historical settings, and Scandinavian traditions. Born and raised in Norway and later based in Connecticut, Ryan also works as an editor and proofreader. Pirate’s Treasure, published by Willowmere Books in 2021, opens the Triangle of Spirits series. The story links a present-day librarian named Tress with Captain Charles Seewell, a sailor displaced from 1725 through a magical book and an unpredictable passage through time. Ryan describes the novel as both portal fantasy and time-travel romance, and its 2021 paperback opens the series. Her other books include The Christmas Marriage Plot and The Fairshaw Library, which extend her interest in affectionate relationships touched by history or magic. Rather than treating the fantastic device as spectacle alone, Pirate’s Treasure uses the library, the lost book, and movement between centuries to test whether two guarded people can trust another chance. Ryan's work favors warmth, wonder, and carefully bounded romantic content.