Kelley Armstrong (website)

Kelley Armstrong lives in Southwestern Ontario with her husband and three children. Her fourth book, Industrial Magic, is currently under contract with Bantam Spectra in the U.S. and with Little, Brown in the U.K.

Russian rights AST
Spanish rights Grupo Santillana de Ediciones

 

In her debut novel Bitten, Elena Michaels tries hard to be normal. She hates her strength, and her wildness, and her hunger for food, sex, for running in the night, for the chase and the kill. She wants a husband, children...even a mother-in-law. Or at least that’s what she tells herself.

And then the inevitable happens. The Pack needs her. The Pack she loves and hates is under siege from a bunch of disreputable and ruthless mutts who are threatening to expose them all, breaking all the rules that have kept them safe. The loyalty of her nature calls her home, and into the fight, which tests just who Elena is: the wild woman or the wistful would-be human.

Bitten is an addictive, deeply enjoyable thrill ride on the frontier of the feral and feminine, a debut novel of astonishing imaginative power from the future queen of suspense.

"It's not easy to find a fresh angle for the werewolf theme, but this debut novel from a Canadian writer proves that solid storytelling and confident craftsmanship can rejuvenate one of the hoariest of all horror cliché's….Filled with romance and supernatural intrigue, this book will surely remind readers of Anne Rice's sophisticated refurbishings of the vampire story. "

Publishers Weekly

"Kelley Armstrong's frisky first novel, Bitten….tells a rather sweet love story, and suggests that being a wolf may be more comfortable for a strong, smart young woman than being a human."

The New York Times Book Review

"As smooth as cream all the way, sure to gain fans."

Kirkus Reviews

Random House Canada
Viking US
Little, Brown UK
De Boekerij, Holland
Droemer, Germany
Emece Editores, Spain
Egmont Richter, Sweden
Rocco, Portugal
Fushosha Publishing Inc., Japan

Suspenseful, chilling and witty, Stolen is a novel of rich and amazing versatility. In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, Elena Michaels is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals-witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves-are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he meets his match.

"Kelley Armstrong delivers a taut, sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michaels is at once sublime and sympathetic, a modern heroine who shows that real women bite back."

Karin Slaughter, The New York Times,
bestselling author of Blindsighted and Kisscut

Random House Canada
Viking US
Little, Brown UK
Droemer, Germany

Real witches are NOTHING like this. An ordinary twenty-something who runs her own website design company, worries about her weight and wonders if she'll ever find a boyfriend, Paige Winterbourne is also leader of the American Coven and guardian of Savannah, the teenage daughter of a black witch. But then Leah, a telekinetic half-demon shows up to fight for custody of Savannah, and all hell breaks loose -- literally.

Breathtakingly thrilling, hip and funny, Kelley's third novel, Dime Store Magic, is another page-turning triumph from an author who is going from strength to strength.
February, 2004.

Random House Canada
Little, Brown UK
Bantam Spectra US
German rights Droemeresche Verlaganstalt
Russian rights AST
Spanish rights Grupo Santillana de Ediciones

Kelley is currently working on her latest installment of the Women of the Underworld series, HAUNTED, sold to Bantam Spectra US and Time Warner UK.



 

Coming soon: No Humans Involved, Exit Strategy and another mainstream crime novel coming in November 2006.