Lucy Tempest Books in Order

If you want the main Folkshore story: Thief of Cahraman → Prince of Cahraman → Queen of Cahraman
If you want Beauty and the Beast with more Faerie adventure: Beast of Rosemead → Beauty of Rosemead
If you want the later Folkshore standalones: Princess of Midnight → Dreamer of Briarfell → The Faerie Prince
If you want Lucy Tempest's villain romances: The Sorcerer and the Swan Princess → Falling For the Trickster
If you want darker, more adult mythology fantasy: The Starless King

Lucy Tempest writes fantasy that starts with a familiar tale and then keeps opening doors. She has said she grew up in a household full of Trekkie and comic book nerd energy, and that storytelling was there from the start. Today she lives in Florida with her family and two spoiled cats.

Stories came first.

Tempest says she was making them up as soon as she could speak, then typing them on her mother's laptop once she learned to read. At ten, an English teacher entered one of her pieces in a writing competition. She won first place with a story about stranded aliens who miss their ride home so they can stop a supervillain, which feels like a pretty fitting beginning.

She kept going for years. The first full novel she finished came when she was fourteen, and many more followed, including discarded manuscripts and fanfiction that she has described as valuable practice. That long apprenticeship helps explain why her books often feel carefully layered, with recurring side characters, expanding lore, and plots that refuse to stay small.

The turning point came when she stopped trying to fix an older abandoned draft and started over.

In late 2015, that clean restart became Thief of Cahraman. After a lot of rewriting, the book was published in 2018 and launched Fairytales of Folkshore, her interconnected fantasy world of fairy tale retellings. Tempest has said she wanted space for Aladdin, Western European fairy tales, and Greek myth inspired ideas to exist on the same map.

That shared-world idea is a big part of her appeal. Thief of Cahraman, Prince of Cahraman, and Queen of Cahraman turn Aladdin into a palace competition, a heist, and a kingdom-sized crisis. Beast of Rosemead and Beauty of Rosemead shift into Beauty and the Beast territory, while Princess of Midnight, Dreamer of Briarfell, and The Faerie Prince push further into Faerie with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Snow White, and clashing courts. She tends to keep the iconic bones of a tale, then change the angle, the scale, or the pressure on the characters.

She has branched out without losing that core interest. The Sorcerer and the Swan Princess gives her a villain-centered Swan Lake romance. The Starless King moves into darker, more adult fantasy with gods, the underworld, and a divine power struggle. In 2026, Falling For the Trickster returned to crooked bargains and fairy tale reshaping, pairing Rumpelstiltskin with the maid from The Goose Girl.

Off the page, Tempest sounds a lot like her books feel. She loves fruit-flavored tea, bright colors, animated shows, and eye-watering spicy food. She makes her own covers, can speak around three languages, and says she almost cannot work without music. She posts playlists for her books. That range fits an author who likes wonder, but has plenty of room for shadows too.