Ilona Andrews

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.

Ilona was born in the Soviet Union and came to the United States as a teenager. She attended Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry and met her husband Gordon.

Gordon helped Ilona write and submit her first novel, Magic Bites. Its sequel, Magic Burns, reached #32 on the New York Times extended bestseller list in April 2008.

The Gordons live in Texas. They have two daughters.

Some confusion has been generated by the fact that Andrew Gordon is commonly 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."

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's a great warrior.

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...

Earth, as we know it, is a busy way-station for extraterrestrials. However, the people of Earth don't know about other worlds or aliens yet, so by intergalactic treaty, aliens visiting Earth must stay at designated Inns and cannot reveal themselves to the native inhabitants. The Inns, and the Innkeepers who run them, are magically powerful and dedicated to two things: protecting their guests, 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 a slumber. As Gertrude Hunt is largely unknown, getting visitors and keeping a thriving inn is tough. Fortunately, Dina is also tough, but goes to extremes to make her visitors happy, whilst keeping the Inn a secret for the local population.

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