Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning is an American author known for blending Scottish Highlander romance with dark urban fantasy, most notably in her Fever series, which follows Mac Lane, a Georgia sorority girl turned reluctant sidhe-seer, into a dangerous, fae-infested Dublin after her sister's murder. Beginning with Darkfever in 2006, the series became known for its slow-burn, morally ambiguous central relationship with the ancient, ruthless Jericho Barrons, and for steadily darkening in tone across its main installments as Mac's power and the stakes of the fae war escalate. Moning built her early career on the Highlander series of time-travel romances, including The Highlander's Touch and Kiss of the Highlander, which share a loose connected universe with the Fever books. Her writing is distinguished within urban fantasy and paranormal romance for its intensity, both emotional and sexual, and for a devoted fanbase that closely tracks the mythology connecting her Highlander and Fever universes. New readers to the Fever series should start with Darkfever, though many readers also enjoy discovering the Highlander romances first for the shared world's earlier chronology. There is no film or television adaptation of either series to date. Moning continues to write within the same connected universe and remains a bestselling fixture of the paranormal romance and urban fantasy genres.