Laura Kaye

Laura Kaye held an associate professorship in history at the U.S. Naval Academy before she turned to fiction; more than forty contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels have followed, with American sales her site puts above a million copies. In the Service of the King opened her Vampire Warrior Kings books, built on a blood rite that the vampire king Kael McQuillan has dreaded since his wife died centuries earlier, and on Shayla McKinnon, who has waited her whole life to enter that world. The Warrior Fight Club novels sit on far more ordinary ground: service members back home work out the after-effects of combat at a club whose one rule is that members must be veterans. Fighting for Everything, 2018, gives a Marine named Noah Cortez a secret he keeps from his oldest friend Kristina Moore; Fighting the Fire, 2021, turns to a firefighter, Sean Riddick. She holds a doctorate in early American history from William and Mary and writes historical fiction as Laura Kamoie, including America's First Daughter and My Dear Hamilton with Stephanie Dray.