Audrey Grey Books in Order

If you want fae academy romance: Winter → Spring → Summer
If you want sweeping romantasy: Oath Taker → Curse Breaker → King Maker → Light Singer
If you want dystopian survival and rebellion: Shadow Fall → Shadow Rise → Shadow Ruin
If you want a standalone space adventure: Our Dark Stars

Audrey Grey writes fantasy with sharp stakes, strong romantic tension, and heroines who do not stay quiet for long. Her books usually throw young women into dangerous magical systems, then force them to fight, choose, and grow under pressure. She is a USA Today bestselling author and a Moonbeam Children's Award winner, and she is based in Oklahoma.

Storytelling seems to have started early for her. Grey has said that long Oklahoma summers spent working in her father's wheat fields gave her plenty of time to invent whole worlds, from vampire tales to cave men and love-torn ghosts. By college, those stories had stopped being daydreams and started becoming actual pages.

The stories came first.

She often describes herself with a wink, as a taco aficionado, a little person wrangler, and a collector of furry things. The home-life picture matters because it fits the voice readers get from her books: lively, a little chaotic, and always building something. She has written about hiding out in her office, surrounded by books and kombucha, while family life hums outside the door.

Her debut novel, Shadow Fall, arrived in 2016 and introduced Maia Graystone, a girl trapped in a brutal prison while an asteroid races toward Earth. The books that followed, Shadow Rise and Shadow Ruin, turned that setup into a larger story about rebellion, class, survival, and trust. Grey clearly likes pressure-cooker plots, and this trilogy shows that from the start, with countdown stakes, dangerous alliances, and a heroine who has to keep moving even when the world is closing in.

She pushed even further into fantasy with the Kingdom of Runes books, beginning with Oath Taker and continuing through Curse Breaker, King Maker, and Light Singer. Those novels follow Haven Ashwood, a mortal girl with forbidden magic who gets pulled into curses, immortal politics, and bargains that never come cheap. Readers who click with Grey tend to like the same things here: fierce heroines, slow-burn romantic tension, found-family energy, and the constant sense that power always asks for more than anyone wants to give.

Then came Evermore Academy, starting with Winter and continuing through Spring and Summer. Here she leans into fae courts, academy rivalry, and the push-pull chemistry between a human girl and a dangerous prince. The setting changes, but her recurring interests stay in place: beauty hiding danger, love tangled up with duty, and young women learning that survival is only the beginning.

She has also stepped outside straight fantasy. Our Dark Stars, written with Krystal Wade, takes a fairy-tale shape and launches it into space, with a lost princess, a changed galaxy, and a reluctant alliance at the center. It is a good example of her range, and of how she likes mixing genres without losing the emotional urgency that drives her other books.

Big worlds, messy hearts, hard choices, that is where she likes to work.

These days, she still appears to be writing from Oklahoma, surrounded by family, pets, and stacks of books. She is also active with readers online, which fits the overall feel of her work. Imaginative, energetic, and close to the people who love disappearing into the worlds she builds.