Karen Myers is a fantasy and science fiction author, best known for her heroic fantasy novels.
After a degree in Comparative Mythology from Yale University and a career as an industry pioneer building software companies, she has devoted herself to writing speculative fiction. Her stories feature heroes in real and imagined worlds filled with magic, space travel, and adventure.
When she's not writing, she enjoys hunting, fishing, photography, and playing her fiddle.
Karen lives with her husband, dogs, and cats in an old log cabin in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, surrounded by wildlife. Bears, coyotes, deer, and possums visit often, and when she fiddles on her porch, the wild turkeys talk back.
A bundle of books from The Chained Adept - Books 3-4.
(1) Broken Devices -- The largest city in the world has just discovered its missing wizards and the only chained wizard it knows that's still alive is Penrys.
(2) On a Crooked Track -- Penrys finds herself retracing a dead scholar's crooked track and setting herself up as a target. But what happens to bait when the prey shows its teeth?
A bundle of books from The Chained Adept - Books 1-2.
(1) The Chained Adept -- Lost wizard Penrys tries to discover how the unremovable chain around her neck makes her different from other wizards.
(2) Mistress of Animals -- Penrys is drafted to find out what has happened to an entire clan of the nomads. Nothing but their empty tents remain, abandoned on the autumn steppe with their herds.
A Science Fiction Story Bundle from the collection There's a Sword for That.
THE VISITOR - Felockati is anchored to his permanent location underwater and misses the days of roaming his ocean world freely.
YOUR EVERY WISH - Stealing the alien ambassador's dagger is a sure thing for Pete -- just what he needs to pay off his debts.
A Science Fiction Story Bundle from the collection There's a Sword for That.
MONSTERS - Xenoarchaeologist Vartan has promised his young daughter Liza one of the many enigmatic lamedh objects that litter the site of a vanished alien civilization.
ADAPTABILITY - The Webster Marble Deluxe Woodsman, Model 820-E, has been offlne for quite some time. Quite some time indeed.
BORROWING SOMEONE ELSE’S PERCEPTIONS FOR A POPULAR DEVICE CAN ONLY MEAN COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. RIGHT?
Samar Dix, inventor of the popular DixOcular eyes, has run out of ideas and needs another hit. Engaging a visionary painter to create the first in a series of Artist models promises to yield an entirely new way of looking at his world. But looking through another’s eyes isn’t as simple as he thinks.
SETTING A TRAP TO CATCH THE MAKERS OF CHAINED WIZARDS.
Book 4 of The Chained Adept - A Lost Wizard's Tale.
A clue has sent Penrys back to the country where she first appeared with her mind wiped and her neck chained. It's time to enlist the help of the Collegium of Wizards. She finds herself retracing a dead scholar's crooked track and setting herself up as a target to confirm her suspicions.
A bundle of books from The Hounds of Annwn - Books 3-5.
(3) King of the May -- Withstanding betrayal by the fae King of Britain may cost George Talbot Traherne both his life and his family.
(4) Bound into the Blood -- The god Cernunnos will stop at nothing to prevent George Talbot Traherne from discovering the truth about his father.
(5) Tales of Annwn -- a collection of 5 short stories.
A bundle of books from The Hounds of Annwn - Books 1-2.
(1) To Carry the Horn -- Foxhunter George Talbot Traherne crosses into an otherworld version of Virginia and is drafted to lead the Hounds of Hell.
(2) The Ways of Winter -- George Talbot Traherne must try and stop an enemy with hostages who threatens thousands of others, even at the cost of his own life.
CHAINS WITHOUT WIZARDS AND A RISING COUNT OF THE DEAD.
Book 3 of The Chained Adept - A Lost Wizard's Tale.
The largest city in the world has just discovered its missing wizards. It seems the Kigali empire has ignited a panic that threatens internal ruin and the only chained wizard it knows that’s still alive is Penrys.
AN ERRANT CHILD WITH DISASTROUS POWERS AND NO ONE TO STAND IN HER WAY.
Book 2 of The Chained Adept - A Lost Wizard's Tale.
Penrys, the wizard with a chain and an unknown past, is drafted to find out what has happened to an entire clan of the nomadic Zannib. Nothing but their empty tents remain, abandoned on the autumn steppe with their herds. Winter is coming, and hundreds are missing.
A STRONG WIZARD WITH UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND A CHAIN AROUND HER NECK.
Book 1 of The Chained Adept - A Lost Wizard's Tale.
Penrys’s past is unknown, but she’s got a better grip on her future: find out where she came from, what happened to her, and how the unremovable chain around her neck makes her different from other wizards.
DISTURBING THE FAMILY SECRETS COULD BRING RUIN TO EVERYTHING HE’S WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD.
Book 4 of The Hounds of Annwn.
George Talbot Traherne, the human huntsman for the Wild Hunt, is preparing for the birth of his child by exploring the family papers about his parents' deaths. When the antlered god Cernunnos objects, he finds he must choose between loyalty to family and loyalty to a god.
MORE VALUABLE AS A WEAPON THAN A KINGMAKER, HE MUST MAKE HIS OWN CHOICES TO SECURE THE FUTURE.
Book 3 of The Hounds of Annwn.
George Talbot Traherne, the human huntsman for the Wild Hunt, had hoped to settle into a quiet life with his new family, but when he stands against King Lludd and his allies at court, disaster overturns all his plans and even threatens the Hounds of Annwn themselves.
TRAPPED BEHIND ENEMY LINES, CAN HE FIND THE STRENGTH TO DEFEND ALL THAT HE VALUES MOST, OR EVEN JUST TO SURVIVE?
It’s the dead of winter and George Talbot Traherne, the new human huntsman for the Wild Hunt, is in trouble. A dangerous foe has mastered an unstoppable weapon and threatens the fae dominions in both the new and the old worlds. Only George has a chance to reach him in time.
NEW JOB, NEW FAMILY, AND IN TWO WEEKS THE END OF A WORLD HE’S JUST DISCOVERED, IF HE CAN’T RISE TO THE CHALLENGE.
Book 1 of The Hounds of Annwn.
When Virginia foxhunter George Talbot Traherne lost track of the Rowanton Hunt’s hounds, the last thing he expected was to find himself in the fae otherworld, drafted to lead the Hounds of Hell for the Wild Hunt.
HE HAS SEEN MARVELS IN THE FAE OTHERWORLD. NOW HE WANTS TO RETURN THE FAVOR.
A Short Story from The Hounds of Annwn.
George Talbot Traherne shows a bit of the human world to family and friends, hoping to share some of the sense of wonder he discovered when he encountered the fae otherworld.
He’s worried about discovery by other humans, but things don’t turn out quite the way he expects.
NO ONE WILL BELIEVE THAT A SMALL GIRL HEARS THINGS NO ONE ELSE CAN, BUT SHE DOESN’T CARE — SHE’S ON A MISSION.
A Short Story from The Hounds of Annwn.
A very young Rhian discovers her beast-sense and, with it, the call of a lost hound.
It’s not safe in the woods where cries for help can attract unwelcome attention, but two youngsters discover their courage in the teeth of necessity.
AN IMPULSIVE WEDDING — CAN HE BUILD A LIFE AMONG STRANGERS?
A Short Story from The Hounds of Annwn.
Angharad hasn’t lived with anyone for hundreds of years, but now she is ready to tie the knot with George Talbot Traherne, the human who has entered the fae otherworld to serve as huntsman for the Wild Hunt. As soon as she can make up her mind, anyway.
HONOR AMONG MEN AND THE HUNTING OF HOUNDS.
A Short Story from The Hounds of Annwn.
When George Talbot Traherne goes night hunting for fox in Virginia, he learns about unworthy men from the old-timers drinking moonshine around the fire and makes his own choices.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF SEPARATION, HOW CAN HE CONVINCE HIMSELF THAT HIS WIFE STILL NEEDS HIM?
A Short Story from The Hounds of Annwn.
Luhedoc is off with his adopted nephew Benitoe to fetch horses for the Golden Cockerel Inn. He’s been reunited with his beloved Maëlys at last, but how can he fit into her capable life as an innkeeper? What use is he to her now, after all these years?
Penrys’s past is unknown, but she’s got a better grip on her future: find out where she came from, discover what happened to her, and figure out how the unremovable chain around her neck makes her different from other wizards.
What any of this has to do with the renewal of an ugly war between neighboring countries, half a world away, is just something she’ll have to sort out, along with the rumors of wizards where they don’t belong.
Assuming, of course, that no one removes her as a threat before she can find her footing.
All she wants is a firm foundation for the rest of her life, with a side helping of retribution, and if she has to fix things along the way, well, so be it.
Along the way, she discovers she may not be the only one -- and so far, the others are horrifying. Where are they all coming from?
George Talbot Traherne has found another life for himself, as the huntsman for the Wild Hunt in the fae otherworld of the Virginia Piedmont.
But his job and his relatives get stranger and stranger. How's a man supposed to make a life for himself and raise a family, in the company of gods and fae more powerful than himself?