Clover Autrey

Biography

“Clover Autrey’s books are perfect for the time-constrained reader. They are a quick read jam-packed with action, adventure and emotion.” …from a reader in Utah.

Clover Autrey writes the kind of stories she loves to read, high fantasy and time travels with Scottish Highlanders or magical mermen and shapeshifters, with powerful elements of romance, where the hero and heroine must each make sacrifices to gain something even stronger. She is the author of the HIGHLAND SORCERY series and the ANOINTED series.

Clover serves as the current president of the Keller Writers Association and is the past president for the North Texas Romance Writers of America. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops.

Inspired by her love of Louis L'Amour historical romantic heroes, Clover (yeah, that's her real name), packed up and moved to Texas where she found a real live Texan of her own. She's been there ever since where she and Pat (who else would a Clover marry but a Patrick?) listen to the coyotes howl at the trains each evening.

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Smashwords Interview

What inspires you to write?
My fourteen year old son's body was breaking down from cystic fibrosis. When the lungs start failing, instead of regular oxygen, they produce gases that filter into the brain and cause horrible headaches that even the strongest pain medicine can't relieve. My mom gave him an audio version of Fablehaven and he loved it and asked me to get him the rest of the books in the series.

I watched him hold his forehead with one hand and turn pages with his other hand as he devoured these books, some times even chortling out in laughter at one of the character's silly antics. I've witnessed firsthand how a story can make a dying child forget about his pain and what's happening to him for just a little while.

That's what inspires me.

I don't expect that my silly little time travel fantasies will have the same impact to anyone as those books had on my son and our family, or that my words will be considered any kind of great literacy genius of our time, but anytime anyone gets to step outside of their daily routine for a moment and enjoy the company of my characters along with me, I think that's awesome and incredible and humbling.

No one on this planet can ever tell me there isn't a power in books and reading.
When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
At a very young age, probably around twelve. I remember swinging on my grandparents large swingset, pumping my legs hard to get as high as I could while daydreaming stories. I pretty much spent my life in daydreams. So I was swinging when I had the very coherent thought: I'm going to be a writer. That must be the coolest job in the world.

And you know what? It is the coolest job in the world. I'm thankful everyday that I get to do this.
Read more of this interview.

Where to buy in print

Series

Chapel Pines Sweet Romance
Welcome to Chapel Pines, where the townsfolk are quirky yet friendly. Stay at the McCagan Inn where guests are bound to find their happily ever afters.
Fragile Is the Heart
Price: $3.99 USD.
A Heart For Keeps
Price: $3.99 USD.
A Home for His Heart
Price: $3.99 USD.

Books

A Heart For Keeps
Series: Chapel Pines Sweet Romance, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 43,880. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
The engagement ring was old, passed down from Blake’s grandmother to him. His to keep until he was ready to get down on one knee. Which after his last heartbreak, wasn’t going to happen. He couldn’t have guessed that looking into his grandfather’s past would guide him to his future with a woman and child he is ready to give his whole heart to.
A Home for His Heart
Series: Chapel Pines Sweet Romance, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 21,420. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
From the wrong side of the tracks, Liam Porterfield left Chapel Pines, Texas, never looking back. Until his young nephew needed him. Now they are both picking up the pieces and starting a fragile new life in Chapel Pines, a life Liam hopes won’t shatter like the first one.
Fragile Is the Heart
Series: Chapel Pines Sweet Romance, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,520. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Her adopted grandmother never kept secrets from her. Yet after her death, Gracie Kincaid found a wedding gown and picture of her grandmother’s wedding to a man Gracie never knew about. She never imagined that discovering her grandmother’s tragic past would guide Gracie to a home and family and to a man who seemed destined for her as though Gigi somehow had a hand in it all along.
Port Hope
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 52,020. Language: English. Published: November 9, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » General, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
Everyone in Delta Cameron’s life has been taken from her, her parents and her husband. Everyone except her young daughter. Now, claiming Delta can't care properly for a child with epilepsy, her wealthy mother-in-law is threatening to take Abby from her as well. The only place Delta knows to go where the lawyers serving papers can’t find her, is the cottage her aunt left her in Texas.
Rules of the Heart
Series: Chapel Pines Sweet Romance, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 38,710. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
Abandoned on her wedding day, Constance Chambers flees the humiliation and goes on her honeymoon with her bridesmaids in tow. The owners of The McCagan Inn, in small town Chapel Pines, Texas, go out of their way to make the jilted bride’s heartache lessen, including shoving their eligible brother Dance McCagan at her as a heart-easing distraction.
Extracted
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 61,830. Language: English. Published: May 14, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
What would you do if you woke up to a different life? A different face? A different name? But you remember who you really are. AnnaLee Johnson awakens from rolling her truck into a ditch into a world of nightmares. She’s no longer herself, told her name is Katherine, and is now in some mysterious school where it seems the ultimate goal is turning amnesiac teens into super soldiers.
No Quit
Price: Free! Words: 25,710. Language: English. Published: December 27, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Souls shouldn’t be plucked out and slammed into an alien body to fight an alien war. Nor should the dead rise during The Day of the Dead festival and wreck havoc on Cael and Jake in small town Arizona. This first collection of short stories by Bestselling Author Clover Autrey dodges dragons, ghosts, and aliens, and one monster fish with heroes that don’t know the word Quit.
Viking Mine
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 53,540. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure
When Rovena discovers a wounded Norseman in the woods, she goes against her uncle and hides him from her people. Until his people, the Vikings, find her instead. Tied to the prow of their dragon ship, she is carried away from all she has known to become a northland slave. The one thing that remains free is her heart and she vows she will not let it be captured.
Never Ever
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 65,020. Language: English. Published: September 8, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance » General, Fiction » Romance » Fantasy
~Great Expectations Finalist~ My only thought was for Aden. I ran to him, kicking up water and called out his name. He turned and my heart skidded, crumbled and dropped to my feet. Not Aden, but Brad. Then where was . . .? I looked down to where Brad’s gaze had been focused, down, down, in the murky water towards the center of the pond. No. Noooo!
Highland Sorcerer
Series: Highland Sorcery, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 43,100. Language: English. Published: February 11, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Historical » Scottish
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Charity Greves has the gift of healing. So when a naked bleeding Highlander materializes out of the air into her kitchen, she does what any rational free-thinking herbalist under the same circumstances would do--she heals him. She didn’t expect to be drawn back to the 13th Century where a dangerous whacked-out witch holds the handsome Highlander captive.
Sea Born
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 99,430. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Romance » Fantasy
One of the Ocean's Children, Daire Tiernan was raised far from the sea, hidden from his cursed destiny and those who would use him.