Karen Amanda Hooper

Karen Amanda Hooper writes romantic fantasy shaped by reincarnation, memory, and bonds that persist across lifetimes. Grasping at Eternity, first released in 2012, opens her Kindrily series and was published through Starry Sky Publishing. Its protagonist, Maryah Woodsen, survives a devastating change in her family life and enters a household whose members know far more about her past than she does. Nathan, connected to Maryah through earlier lives, must decide how to reach someone who no longer remembers him or the world they once shared. Hooper described the novel as a long personal project and identified it from the outset as the beginning of a continuing sequence. The book combines a contemporary Arizona setting with soul-linked characters, supernatural abilities, and questions about identity after memory is lost. Grasping at Eternity therefore introduces both the Kindrily mythology and Hooper’s recurring interest in love tested by choices that extend beyond a single lifetime.