Dawn Chandler

Dawn Chandler creates fiction across historical, fantasy, and western settings, drawing on an early fascination with history and adventure. The Dark Lady opens her Dark Books sequence, a medieval romance set in twelfth-century England. Its central woman was taken from her father, raised while presenting herself as a boy, and trained into the life of a knight. A final request from her mother forces her to leave that identity and face an arranged marriage, making the novel’s conflict as much about adaptation and selfhood as romance. Chandler’s series page places Dark Christmas between the opening novel and From Under a Dark Shadow, which continues through the next generation. She grew up in Idaho after an early childhood in Kansas and describes writing stories from school age onward. The Dark Lady combines her interests in dangerous historical settings, women constrained by custom, and protagonists who must reconcile hard-won skills with an unfamiliar role.