Announcing The Younger Gods
My romantasy debut!
I’ve been sitting on this news for months, but today I’m so delighted to share that I’ll be publishing a romantasy duology with Berkley, starting with The Younger Gods in January 2026.
I was the kind of kid who lugged 900 page Robert Jordan doorstoppers to the fifth grade playground (I was cool, real cool), so I’m still pinching myself that I get to write books with heroes and villains, magic and gods, and love that conquers death.
So much of writing is giving yourself permission to write the things you love, since nobody else will come and do that. I hope you all will love Taran and Iona and their journey to the underworld and back as much as I do, but I’ve been so thankful to get to live in this magical world with these characters for the past year.
Since I couldn’t yell about this until today I commissioned my forever favorite Eva Soulu for character art, and it is so so beautiful.
There will be more to come with covers and preorders and pub date, but for now you’re welcome to add this to your Goodreads shelf (I hear, perhaps apocryphally, that this helps me somehow?) and if you came here for the contemporary romance, I hope you’ll try a little magic with your love stories stay for the romantasy.
<3 Shep