Kim Wilkins Books in Order
Find Kim Wilkins books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, pen-name titles, and clear advice on where to start reading her work.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
32 books
The Infernal
by Kim Wilkins
1997
A young musician is drawn into a nightmare when her fans start turning up dead and strange memories begin invading her mind. The closer she gets to the truth, the more music, desire, and the occult become tangled together.
Grimoire
by Kim Wilkins
1999
At a gothic college in Melbourne, a dangerous circle of academics is trying to reassemble a demon-summoning book. Holly Beck gets caught in the struggle, and her growing bond with a ghost makes the stakes even stranger and more personal.
Resurrectionists
by Kim Wilkins
2000
Australian cellist Maisie Fielding heads to Yorkshire to dig into the life of the grandmother she barely understood, a reputed white witch. What begins as family research turns into a dark encounter with old magic, grief, and buried hunger.
Angel of Ruin / Fallen Angel
by Kim Wilkins
2001
Skeptical writer Sophie goes looking for material on the occult and meets a mysterious wanderer with a story to tell. As the tale of three sisters and an angel unfolds, the line between listener and participant starts to blur.
Bloodlace
by Kim Wilkins
2002
Psychic teenager Gina Champion gets pulled into rehearsals for a local play when a ghost begins haunting the theatre. To solve the mystery, she has to read the past buried in the building before the violence starts again.
Fireheart
by Kim Wilkins
2002
When the troubled new boy next door talks about beings that come at night to punish him, Gina is skeptical but curious. Digging into his story leads her toward a frightening curse and a danger that hits closer to home than she expects.
Moonstorm
by Kim Wilkins
2003
Gina turns her talent into a psychic business, but the job stops being fun when one of her clients vanishes. To find the missing professor, she has to untangle a case full of strange signs and buried motives.
The Autumn Castle
by Kim Wilkins
2003
In Berlin, Christine Starlight is living quietly with her lover Jude when old memories and eerie visions pull her toward a strange autumn kingdom. As the human world and the fairy world start to overlap, love, pain, and obsession turn dangerous.
Giants of the Frost
by Kim Wilkins
2004
Scientist Victoria Scott takes a research post on a remote Norwegian island expecting peace and work. Instead she finds hags, haunted forests, and a past that seems to know her already, all pointing toward an ancient conflict that could end her life.
Witchsong
by Kim Wilkins
2005
Blackwater Bay is terrified by a string of killings, and even the police are willing to ask Gina Champion for help. Gina suspects sorcery is involved, but solving the case means facing both supernatural danger and messy family drama.
Ghost Ship
by Kim Wilkins
2006
Asa and Rollo thought their baby sister died when Emperor Flood drowned their kingdom and took the throne. When they learn Una may still be alive, they board an invisible ship and sail into danger to bring her home.
Tide Stealers
by Kim Wilkins
2006
Back in hiding, Asa tries to use the Moonstone Star and accidentally draws a band of underwater pirates. When they steal the jewel, she and Rollo must chase it through ghosts, sea giants, and deeper secrets about their family.
Duet
by Kim Wilkins
2007
A letter about a long-hidden crime sets two women's lives on a collision course across Europe and Australia. As Angela and Ellie chase memory, identity, and lost love, old secrets refuse to stay buried.
Gold Dust
by Kim Wilkins
2008
Raised together in Cold War Leningrad, cousins Sofi, Natalia, and Lena dream of a bigger life beyond scarcity and fear. When they finally get their chance, ambition and resentment begin to turn their bond into something far more dangerous.
Sorcerer of the Waves
by Kim Wilkins
2008
Asa and Rollo set out again when they learn the chained sorcerer Ragni may know what happened to their parents. Their journey across the drowned world brings new monsters, hard choices, and answers they may not be ready for.
The Star Queen
by Kim Wilkins
2008
With Emperor Flood hunting them and destroying innocent homes, Asa and Rollo can no longer stay hidden. They sail for Castle Crag hoping to save their parents and end the fight in one last, dangerous confrontation.
The Veil of Gold / Rosa and the Veil of Gold
by Kim Wilkins
2008
A golden bear found in St Petersburg sends Daniel St. Clair and Em Hayward north into a landscape where maps fail and old stories bite back. As Rosa searches for Daniel, buried histories and Russian folklore close in.
Unclaimed Heart / Pearl Hunters
by Kim Wilkins
2008
In 1799, curious and headstrong Constance Blackchurch refuses to stop asking questions about her missing mother. Her search leads her into danger, across social boundaries, and toward pearl diver Alexandre Sans-Nom, who changes everything.
Wildflower Hill
by Kim Wilkins
2010
In 1929, Beattie Blaxland leaves Glasgow for Australia after scandal upends her future. Decades later, injured ballerina Emma inherits Beattie's Tasmanian property and uncovers the heartbreak, grit, and secrets tied to Wildflower Hill.
Lighthouse Bay
by Kim Wilkins
2012
After a shipwreck in 1901, Isabella Winterbourne is stranded on the Queensland coast and forced to build a new life. In 2011, Libby Slater returns home and begins uncovering the mystery Isabella left behind at the old lighthouse.
Ember Island
by Kim Wilkins
2013
In 1890, Tilly Kirkland marries for security and finds herself trapped in a frightening new life on the Channel Islands. More than a century later, novelist Nina Jones discovers hidden diary pages that drag the past back into the light.
The Year of Ancient Ghosts
by Kim Wilkins
2013
This collection brings together five novellas steeped in medieval myth, history, magic, and horror. Across haunted landscapes and older belief systems, Wilkins keeps asking what the past still wants from the living.
Daughters of the Storm
by Kim Wilkins
2014
Five royal sisters, each with her own loyalties and secrets, are forced together when their father falls mysteriously ill. To save him and their kingdom from a treacherous stepbrother, they have to survive a desperate quest and each other.
The Engagement Party
by Kim Wilkins
2014
Set in rural Australia in 1925, this short historical story follows Flora Honeychurch-Black on the day of her engagement party. As the country changes around her, she starts to question whether the life planned for her is the one she wants.
Evergreen Falls
by Kim Wilkins
2015
A 1926 snowstorm traps staff and guests inside the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel, where one terrible secret changes everything. In 2014, Lauren Beck finds old love letters during the hotel's renovation and begins piecing the story together.
Odin's Girl
by Kim Wilkins
2016
On the eve of her wedding, Sara Jones learns the strength she has hidden all her life comes from a father she never knew, Odin. Drawn into a mythic city and seven deadly challenges, she has to choose what kind of life she wants.
Sisters of the Fire
by Kim Wilkins
2016
Four years after the sisters saved their father, the family is fractured and the kingdom is anything but safe. Old wounds, shifting loyalties, forbidden love, and dark magic pull them back toward another reckoning.
Stars Across the Ocean
by Kim Wilkins
2017
When Agnes Resolute leaves her foundling home in 1874, she follows a unicorn button and the trail of the mother who abandoned her. A modern family mystery frames her journey across England, Paris, Ceylon, and Australia.
The Silver Well
by Kim Wilkins
2017
Co-written with Kate Forsyth, this collection gathers seven original stories linked by folklore, history, and a mysterious well in the English countryside. The tales range across centuries, but each one turns on love, fear, loss, and magic.
Queens of the Sea
by Kim Wilkins
2019
Bluebell has lost her kingdom to the Crow King and to her own sister Willow, whose power is growing more dangerous by the day. To fight back, the sisters must cross the sea, face giants and gods, and finally stand together.
Headstrong Girl
by Kim Wilkins
2021
This short, practical book gathers Kim Wilkins's advice on building a writing life and telling stronger stories. It covers persistence, focus, craft, and the everyday habits that help writers keep going.
Genre Worlds
by Kim Wilkins
2022
Co-written with Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher, this book looks at how popular fiction works as culture, community, and industry. It explores readers, publishing, fandom, and the many ways genre stories travel in modern book life.
Where should I start?
If you want dark, myth-soaked adult fantasy: The Autumn Castle → Giants of the Frost → The Veil of Gold / Rosa and the Veil of Gold
If you want epic sister-driven fantasy: Daughters of the Storm → Sisters of the Fire → Queens of the Sea
If you want sweeping historical page-turners: Wildflower Hill → Lighthouse Bay → Ember Island → Evergreen Falls
If you want spooky YA mysteries: Bloodlace → Fireheart → Moonstorm → Witchsong
If you want younger sea-fantasy adventures: Ghost Ship → Tide Stealers → Sorcerer of the Waves → The Star Queen
Author bio
Kim Wilkins was born in London, and her family moved back to Australia when she was very young. She grew up on the coast north of Brisbane, a detail that feels fitting once you notice how often weather, shoreline places, and old landscapes turn up in her fiction.
She has said she has been writing for as long as she can remember.
Before she became known for novels, she built a strong academic life around books too. She studied at the University of Queensland, completing honours, a master's degree, and a PhD, and she now teaches there as a Professor of Writing. That mix of storyteller and scholar helps explain her range. She writes with a real feel for myth, history, and genre, but she also understands how books live in the world and how readers find their way into them.
Her debut novel, The Infernal, arrived in 1997 and won Aurealis awards for both fantasy and horror. It set the tone for a lot of what followed: contemporary lives thrown off balance by the uncanny, old powers pressing into the present, and characters who are forced to keep going even when the world starts behaving strangely. Books like Grimoire and The Resurrectionists kept exploring that space, mixing gothic atmosphere with modern settings and very human worries.
Old stories keep sneaking into her fiction.
That is especially clear in books such as The Autumn Castle, Giants of the Frost, and The Veil of Gold, where European folklore and myth bleed into the lives of contemporary characters. Later, in the Blood and Gold novels, she turned to a broader epic canvas, building a stormy world of royal sisters, old gods, magic, and succession fights. Readers often come to Wilkins for the fantasy, but stay because the emotional engine is so often family, grief, longing, jealousy, or love.
She has also written for younger readers, which says a lot about her flexibility as a storyteller. The Gina Champion books bring psychic mysteries into a teen setting, while Ghost Ship and the rest of the Sunken Kingdom sequence give younger fantasy readers a fast-moving adventure full of drowned kingdoms, sibling loyalty, and sea magic. The tone changes from series to series, but her interest in atmosphere, myth, and characters under pressure stays put.
Under the name Kimberley Freeman, a pen name she chose in part to honour her maternal grandmother, she writes historical and contemporary page-turners such as Wildflower Hill, Lighthouse Bay, Ember Island, Evergreen Falls, and Stars Across the Ocean. These books tend to be broader family dramas, often with dual timelines, buried secrets, and women trying to rebuild a life after loss or scandal. They feel different from the darker fantasy novels, but the pull is similar: strong settings, emotional stakes, and the sense that the past never really stays in the past.
Range is part of the point.
Wilkins has also written directly about writing and reading life in books such as Headstrong Girl and Genre Worlds. She lives in Brisbane, continues to teach and research at the University of Queensland, and has now spent decades moving comfortably between fantasy, horror, young adult fiction, children's adventure, and historical fiction. That makes her bibliography especially fun to explore. There is a good chance that if one corner of it clicks for you, another one will too.
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