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Kayla Edwards

Kayla Edwards is a fantasy-romance novelist known for the new adult House of Devils series, including City of Gods and Monsters, City of Souls and Sinners, City of Lies and Legends, and City of Smoke and Brimstone. She also wrote the upper-YA romantasy novel Dreams of Ice and Iron. ((https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kayla-Edwards/256563060))

経歴と著者の歩み

Kayla Edwards built her career on a story she began while still in high school. In public author biographies, that early period stands out as the defining stage of her literary formation: City of Gods and Monsters, the novel that would become her signature work, started taking shape while she was still a student, long before it became a publishing success. Before House of Devils established her name more widely, she published Dreams of Ice and Iron in 2021, an upper-YA romantasy that marked her formal debut and introduced the blend of fantasy, romance, and high emotional stakes that would continue to define her fiction. ((https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/City-of-Gods-and-Monsters/Kayla-Edwards/House-of-Devils/9798347115853))

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There had to be an explanation for this
-City of Gods and Monsters
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The sound of her heartbeat in her ears was like a hammer on cloth
-City of Gods and Monsters
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The endearment made Loren’s heart sing
-City of Souls and Sinners
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Darien had been dangerous his whole life—there was no doubt about that. But as a man in love, he was lethal
-City of Lies and Legends
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How badly she wanted a future with Darien couldn’t be expressed in words
-City of Smoke and Brimstone

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