Hello! Nice to meet you.
My name is Kalie! My romantic fantasy debut THE SACRED SPACE BETWEEN came out in November 2025 with Harper Voyager UK and Little, Brown in the US/Canada, and my sophomore novel COPPERSTITCHED will be out in early 2027.
I’m represented by Maddy Belton at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
I’ve been story-obsessed since I learned how to read, and I haven’t looked back since. Books have been my favourite and most constant companion, and I’m a big believer that they’re the #1 best way to feel a little less alone in the world.
I grew up just outside Portland, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, and currently, I live in Belfast with my cat Dorothy and husband Gregg and work as a wedding photographer. I can usually be found at a local coffee shop or wandering around in the woods.
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THE SACRED SPACE BETWEEN - debut adult romantic fantasy - November 2025
A devout iconographer must paint an exiled saint in this sumptuous gothic romantasy full of slow-burn tension and windswept moors, for fans of DIVINE RIVALS and A STUDY IN DROWNING
'Nothing less than blasphemy brought you to me,' Jude told her. Maeve trembled. He was an open flame. Any closer, and she’d burn.’
Jude is a saint with dangerous magic – exiled by the Abbey to live out his days in a decaying estate on the moors alone – until gifted iconographer Maeve is sent to paint his icon. Suspecting she’s a spy for her beloved Abbey, Jude makes it his mission to get rid of Maeve as soon as possible. That is until he discovers that Maeve holds the same tainted magic as he does, and she may be the key to destroying the Abbey’s power…
But this institution has eyes everywhere, and the only thing the Abbey loves more than a saint is a martyr.
Published in the USA on November 4th, 2025, with Little, Brown and in the UK on November 20th, 2025, with Harper Voyager.
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COPPERSTITCHED - adult romantic fantasy - early 2027
COPPERSTITCHED: a sumptuous, glittering fantasy for 2027, for fans of Six of Crows, A Forbidden Alchemy, and The Gilded Wolves.
’Everything good and lasting in his life was a burst of copper: the slide of iridescent metal through his fingers, the shade of the bricks of her Guildhouse, the slender ring of pale brown in her opal eyes. Precious and gleaming and bright enough to burn. Something worth fighting to call your own.’
A romantic fantasy novel about a young woman preparing to take over the Cartographer’s Guild when her father is poisoned, forcing her to unravel the secrets of their guild and join forces with her childhood friend to save him.
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To be published in the USA with Little, Brown and in the UK with Harper Voyager in early 2027.
T.L.O.W. - adult speculative contemporary romance
T.L.O.W. - a slow-burn, contemporary romance with speculative elements inspired by Scottish folklore, for fans of Promise Me Sunshine and Spells for Forgetting.
Home is always home, no matter how long you’ve been away.
Cora and Wes were never meant to meet again.
After a chance meeting at a linguistics conference in Madrid and a year of seemingly unread emails, Cora and Wes reunite in the Outer Hebrides, and in a last-ditch effort to avoid going home, Cora offers to show him around the islands she grew up in. The only problem - Cora hasn’t been back in over six years after her childhood boyfriend drowned, leaving her haunted by a mysterious figure from Scottish folklore ever since.
As they spend weeks travelling across the islands, staying in local homes, B&Bs, and wild camping, Cora begins to realise Wes has his own grief-filled past to contend with, experiences that have made him into the kind of man who Cora could easily fall in love with… a terrifying potential for someone so prone to running. Now, she must decide which will win out: confronting her past and learning to move forward, and all the love and vulnerability that comes alongside it, or the persistent, drowning call of the sea.
Please contact my agent - Maddy Belton at Madeleine Milburn - for more information.