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Ilona Andrews is the pen name of Ilona Gordon and Andrew Gordon,[1] an American husband-and-wife duo who write urban fantasy and romantic fiction together.

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Early lives

Ilona was born in the Soviet Union and came to the United States as a teenager.[2][3] She attended Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry and met her husband Andrew Gordon.[2] Andrew Gordon was born in Florida and grew up in the Appalachia region of North Carolina.[2] He joined the Navy and worked in communications before also attending Western Carolina University where he met Ilona in a writing course.[4]

Career

Ilona and Gordon (Andrew) are a husband and wife writing team, with their books published as a portmanteau of their first names. Gordon helped Ilona write and submit her first novel, Magic Bites.[5] Its sequel, Magic Burns, reached #32 on the New York Times extended bestseller list in April 2008.[6] The books in their various series continue to enjoy success. According to their site their novels have reached #1 on the NYT and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers Lists, #2 on the USA Today Bestseller List, with over 3.5 million of their books in print with the foreign rights sold in 18 countries.[4] In addition they continue to write a highly successful blog chronicling their lives, the publication process, and post snippets of free fiction and serial novels.[7][4]

Personal lives

The Gordons live in Texas.[8] They have two daughters (known as Kid 1 and Kid 2 on their forums).

In the lively comments sections of their website, in which Ilona actively participates daily, they are known as Ilona or Gordon if one is referring to either individually and previously "the ALs" (Author Lords) collectively. However, on August 1, 2019 Ilona and Gordon, who stated that they were never quite comfortable with the "Author Lords" nickname, requested "We would like to be addressed as IA collectively or House Andrews, if you guys would like to go with a fun nickname."[9]

Some confusion has been generated by the fact that Andrew Gordon is usually referred to by his surname. Regarding this, he has said, "I know it can be confusing, but here is the deal: My legal or if you prefer, government name, is Andrew Beauregard Gordon. Andrews is my grandmother Helen’s maiden name and my middle name comes from the confederate general PGT Beauregard who fired on Fort Sumter and basically started our Civil War. Ilona calls me Gordon and that is how I think of myself, in the military we always used our last names."[1]

Works

Kate Daniels

The Kate Daniels novels are set in a slightly futuristic Atlanta, where magic and tech periods follow one another. During tech, guns and cars work. During magic, planes fall from the sky and generally anything technological fails but forgotten magic spells work again. In this world, magical creatures again roam the lands. Heroine Kate Daniels is a mercenary who fights various types of monsters. Kate is special: she is a human with some magical abilities but foremost, she is a great warrior.

Kate Daniels Series

#	Title	Point of View	Publication Date	Publisher	Type	Included in
0.1	A Questionable Client	Kate			short story	free story on authors website Dark and Stormy Knights Magic Graves Small Magics
1	Magic Bites	Kate	Mar 2007	Ace Books	novel
2	Magic Burns	Kate	Apr 2008	Ace Books	novel
3	Magic Strikes	Kate	Mar 2009	Ace Books	novel
3.1	Magic Mourns	Andrea	Sep 2009		novella	Must Love Hellhounds
4	Magic Bleeds	Kate	Jun 2010	Ace Books	novel
4.1	Magic Dreams	Dali	Apr 2011		novella	Hexed
5	Magic Slays	Kate	May 2011	Ace Books	novel
5.1	Magic Tests	Julie			short story	Magic Graves Small Magics An Apple for the Creature
5.2	Magic Gifts	Kate	Jul 2012		novella	was originally published as a free ebook on the author's website during Christmas 2011 Gunmetal Magic
5.3	Gunmetal Magic	Andrea	Jul 2012	Ace Books	novel
5.4	An Ill Advised Rescue					Magic Rises
5.5	Retribution Clause	Saiman’s cousin	Jun 2012	St. Martin's	short story	Hex Appeal
6	Magic Rises	Kate	Jul 2013	Ace Books	novel	includes 5.8
7	Magic Breaks	Kate	Jul 2014	Ace Books	novel
7.1	Magic Steals[10]	Dali	Nov 2014		novella	Night Shift
8	Magic Shifts	Kate	Aug 2015	Ace Books	novel
8.1	Magic Stars [11]	Derek	Dec 2015	Ace Books	novella
9	Magic Binds	Kate	Sep 2016	Ace Books	novel
10	Magic Triumphs[12]	Kate	Aug 2018	Ace Books	novel
11.1	Curran POV Collection	Curran	May 2016		short stories	published as a free ebook on the author's website

Iron Covenant

Set in Kate Daniels World around the events of Magic Triumphs. A planned trilogy. The release of the second book in the series was delayed.[13]

#	Title	Point of View	Publication Date	Publisher
1	Iron and Magic	Hugh d'Ambray	Jun 2018	NYLA

Aurelia Ryder

A continuation of Kate Daniels World, featuring Aurelia Ryder, formerly known as Julie Lennart-Olsen. The first novel in the series, Blood Heir (2021) began as a serial work on the Ilona Andrews blog in 2020 originally titled "Ryder"[14] and was later edited for self-publication.[15] Despite being self published, Blood Heir climbed to the #5 combined print and ebook fiction ranking on the New York Times Fiction Bestsellers List[16] and #2 on the USA Today Bestseller's List[17] shortly after publication.[18]

#	Title	Point of View	Publication Date	Publisher	Type	Included in
0.5	"The King of Fire"	Julie	Sep 2018		short story	free story on author's website[19]
1	Blood Heir	Julie	Jan 2021	NYLA	novel
1.1	"Sandra"		Jun 2021		short story	free story on author's website[20]

The Edge

The Edge world is in between the 'normal' earth and a magical world that looks remarkably the same. It's a small piece of land where some things are magical and some are not. Most people on either side cannot go across a border, so the edgers are generally left alone. But the few people that can cross borders cause trouble.

#	Title	Publication Date	Publisher
1	On the Edge	Sep 2009	Ace Books
1.1	George and Jack in School
2	Bayou Moon	Sep 2010	Ace Books
3	Fate's Edge	Nov 2011	Ace Books
4	Steel's Edge	Dec 2012	Ace Books

The Kinsmen Universe

#	Title	Also In	Publication Date	Publisher
0.5	The World of Kinsmen	The Kinsmen Universe
1	Silent Blade	The Kinsmen Universe	June 2009	Samhain Publishing
2	Silver Shark	The Kinsmen Universe	Apr 2011	Samhain Publishing
2.5	A Mere Formality	The Kinsmen Universe

The Innkeeper Chronicles

Earth, as we know it, is a busy way-station for extraterrestrials due to the solar system having an unusually large number of "jump points". However, the people of Earth don't know about other worlds or aliens yet, so by intergalactic treaty Earth is designated neutral territory and visiting aliens must stay at the Inns and cannot reveal themselves to the native inhabitants.

Innkeepers have a symbiotic relationship with their Inn; a living, semi-sentient and probably alien lifeform. They are powerful within Inn grounds and can use their "magic" to control every part of the Inn and grounds - including creating additional customized rooms for guests just by a thought and opening portals to other worlds their Inn has forged a connection to. The inside of an Inn bends physics to extreme lengths - treating it more as a suggestion than a law. An Innkeeper's purpose is twofold: protecting their guests at all costs, and maintaining the ignorance of Earth's people to the existence of alien cultures.

Dina Demille comes from a family of Innkeepers and recently woke her own Inn, Gertrude Hunt, from hibernation. As Gertrude Hunt is comparatively unknown, getting visitors and keeping a thriving Inn is tough. Fortunately, Dina is also tough and goes to extremes to make her visitors happy, whilst keeping the true nature of the Inn a secret from the local population.

Two of the main human-looking races featured (in a nod to urban fantasy) are: "Vampires" - The Holy Anocracy, attractive, warlike, fangs; and "Werewolves" - genetically engineered shapechanger super-soldiers.

The Innkeeper books are posted free online as a weekly series of partial chapters on the Ilona Andrews website. When a book is finished the chapters stay online for a short while then are taken down and become a first-draft, edited and published as a novel.

Due to the weekly format the comments sections of each chapter are very lively with speculation as to what comes next. Ilona and Gordon have dubbed their fans in the comments sections, especially of Innkeeper, the Book Devouring Horde (BDH) - a play on the Hope Crushing Horde from one of the Innkeeper books. In turn the BDH have historically and playfully referred to them collectively as the ALs (Author Lords). They are now termed House Andrews (another play on words from the books) or IA.

In 2022, the first novel of the series was adapted into an ongoing webtoon on the online comics platform Tapas, in collaboration with Tapas Media.[21][22]

#	Title	Also in	Publication Date
0.5	Gerard Demille and Helen Meet
1	Clean Sweep	The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One	Dec 2013
2	Sweep in Peace	The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One	Nov 2015
3	One Fell Sweep	The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One	Dec 2016
4	Sweep of the Blade		July 2019
4.5	Sweep with Me		Jan 2020
5	Sweep of the Heart		Ongoing (see website for chapters) - publication 2022

The Hidden Legacy

{| class="wikitable" !# !Title !Also in !Publication Date !Publisher !Comments |- |0.5 |Of Swine and Roses [23] |Small Magics |Mar 2011 | |short story |- |1 |Burn for Me | |Oct 2014 |Avon | |- |2 |White Hot | |May 2017 |Avon Romance | |- |3 |Wildfire | |Jul 2017 |Avon | |- |3.5 |Diamond Fire | |Nov 2018 |Avon Impulse | |- |4 |Sapphire Flames | |Aug 2019 |Avon | |- |5.1 |A Misunderstanding | |Jul 2019 | |short story |- |5 |Emerald Blaze | |Aug 2020 |HarperCollins Publishers | |- |6.1 |The Cool Aunt | | | |short story |- |6 |Ruby Fever | |2022 |HarperCollins Publishers | |}

Kozlov Universe

• Questing Beast[24] (2010) (free short story)
• A Mere Formality (2011)

Alphas

• Alphas: Origins

Short stories

• A Small Blue Key
• George and Jack in School

Anthologies and collections

Anthology or Collection	Contents	Publication Date	Publisher
The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance	Grace of Small Magics	Mar 2009	Running Press Robinson Publishing Constable & Robinson
Must Love Hellhounds	Magic Mourns	Sep 2009	Ace Books
Dark and Stormy Knights	A Questionable Client	Jul 2010	Ace Books
Hexed	Magic Dreams	Jul 2011	Berkley
Magic Graves	A Questionable Client	Sep 2011	Kindle ebook
Angels of Darkness[25]	Alphas: Origins	Oct 2011
Hex Appeal	Retribution Clause	Jun 2012	St. Martin's
An Apple for the Creature	Magic Tests	Aug 2012	Ace Books
Night Shift	Magic Steals	Nov 2014	Ace Books
Small Magics[26]	A Questionable Client Retribution Clause Of Swine and Roses Grace of Small Magics Magic Tests	Sep 2015	NYLA Publishing Kindle Direct Publishing
The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One	Gerard Demille and Helen Meet Clean Sweep Sweep in Peace One Fell Sweep	May 2017	Subterranean Press
The Kinsmen Universe	The World of Kinsmen Silent Blade Silver Shark A Mere Formality	Aug 2018	Subterranean Press

References

External links

• Official website
• Reviews of work by Andrews at Fantasy Literature
• Ilona Andrews at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Ilona Andrews at Library of Congress Authorities, with 13 catalog records

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