Ilona Andrews is the pen name of Ilona Gordon and Andrew Gordon,
an American husband-and-wife duo who write urban fantasy and romantic fiction
together under a portmanteau of their first names.
They have written several series and participated in many
anthologies.
Those include: Kate Daniels novels,Edge novels,
and The Inkeeper Chronicles.
The Kate Daniels series is set in a post-magic apocalypse version of Atlanta,
where the world switches between periods of magical and technological
dominance, and follows Kate Daniels, a sarcastic mercenary who makes
a living dealing with a vast array of magical and mythological creatures.
The series follows Kate as she navigates the various factions of shifters,
necromancers, magic users and magic-based organizations that hold power
in the city
The Edge series is built on the premise that there is a magic parallel
world called "the Weird" that exists adjacent to the continental
United States, as well as a lawless buffer region between the two
realms known as "the Edge" where the mundane and magic collide.
The series follows multiple couples on adventures of espionage
and survival through the Edge and beyond as they come up against
a variety of dangerous factions and forces.
The Innkeeper Chronicles is a sci-fi and fantasy series which
follows Dina Demille, a young woman who presides over an old
Victorian mansion and bed and breakfast called Gertrude Hunt in
the quiet town of Red Deer, Texas. Gertrude Hunt is secretly an
intergalactic waypoint known as an "inn" that offers refuge and
lodging for a vast variety of extraterrestrial visitors during
their visits to Earth. Dina is joined by a colourful cast of
characters and strange extraterrestrial guests including a former
wanted intergalactic tyrant named Caldenia, her monstrous and
adorable Shih Tzu, a race of warlike space vampires known as the
Holy Cosmic Anocracy, and a persistent and attractive war veteran
named Sean Evans who turns out to be a genetically modified werewolf.
Throughout the series Dina must balance the standing of her business,
the safety of her guests and continue to conceal the truth of the greater
galaxy from other humans, all while dealing with the needs, agendas
and threats posed by her many guests and enemies
