Katlyn Zehnacker

Katlyn Zehnacker

Katlyn Zehnacker

Katlyn Zehnacker

Katlyn Zehnacker (she/her) began writing at eleven when she realized she could tell stories, not just read them. This bent toward storytelling continued through adolescence into adulthood as she honed her craft while toiling in the fanfiction mines and explored novel ideas of her own. She currently creates worlds (and queries) between work emails and phone calls from her cozy home in upstate New York, which she shares with one very spoiled cat and her husband, who keeps telling her to curb her book addiction because they’re running out of real estate.

Querying

YA CONTEMPORARY FANTASY

THE LUMINARIES x ONE OF US IS LYING

Makayla Sawyer has her future mapped out: ace her classes in Silver Falls, get into a top college, and keep pretending she doesn’t see ghosts. That plan implodes when Makayla begins waking up at freshly murdered bodies, led there by the victims themselves. Unable to explain her otherworldly “alibi” without destroying everything she’s worked for, she turns to the only classmates who might believe her: Roman, a true-crime lover with chronic pain and a talent for research; Jack, a rule-breaking new kid with secrets of his own; and Anne, Makayla’s estranged best friend who secretly hunts supernaturals like her. As suspicion from law enforcement mounts and Makayla continues sleepwalking to crime scenes, the unlikely quartet uncovers a chilling pattern and realizes the only way to stop the murderer is to follow Makayla’s ghosts beyond the veil.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

YA/NA Urban Fantasy

CEMETERY BOYS x AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x Shadowhunters

Someone is murdering Otherworlders – the supernatural races who live alongside humans. Despite being a Champion, this isn't Grayson Matthew's problem; as long as the fae, vampires, and the like leave humans out of it, the Obsidian Collective won't interfere. Until his sister is found at the scene of one of the murders, blood on her hands and no idea how she got there. Desperate to prove her innocence, Gray steps in and promises to find the real killer — and if that wasn't enough, the impossible and downright tempting Lysander Montgomery is his handler for this damned mission. He has 21 days to find the real killer and clear his sister's name. Fail, and her life – and his – are forfeit. But in games with fae, mages, and unyielding laws, sometimes the biggest risk isn't a life. It's yourself.

YA/NA Urban Fantasy

CEMETERY BOYS x AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x Shadowhunters

Someone is murdering Otherworlders – the supernatural races who live alongside humans. Despite being a Champion, this isn't Grayson Matthew's problem; as long as the fae, vampires, and the like leave humans out of it, the Obsidian Collective won't interfere. Until his sister is found at the scene of one of the murders, blood on her hands and no idea how she got there. Desperate to prove her innocence, Gray steps in and promises to find the real killer — and if that wasn't enough, the impossible and downright tempting Lysander Montgomery is his handler for this damned mission. He has 21 days to find the real killer and clear his sister's name. Fail, and her life – and his – are forfeit. But in games with fae, mages, and unyielding laws, sometimes the biggest risk isn't a life. It's yourself.

SHELVED

ADULT ROMANTASY

THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x THE BRIDGE KINGDOM x SJM accessibility

Forced into a marriage with her enemy, a warrior princess must choose between the kingdom that saved her from the gutter, and the lover who is the first to make her feel truly seen.

ADULT ROMANTASY

THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT x THE BRIDGE KINGDOM x SJM accessibility

Forced into a marriage with her enemy, a warrior princess must choose between the kingdom that saved her from the gutter, and the lover who is the first to make her feel truly seen.