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K.J. Sutton

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K.J. Sutton is the Amazon bestselling author of the Fortuna Sworn Saga. Her writing has reached readers around the world and earned recognition from Kirkus Reviews.

She grew up in Minnesota and earned her master’s degree in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She now makes her home there in a plant-filled house with floor-to-ceiling windows, a piano in the corner, and a collection of bird feeders on the porch. When she isn’t writing in her favorite coffee shop, she’s likely walking her dogs with an audiobook in her ears or hunting for thrifted treasures.

She also writes young adult novels as Kelsey Sutton.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 42,269 ratings · 6,145 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fortuna Sworn (Fortuna Sworn, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 19,356 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Restless Slumber (Fortuna Sworn, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 9,443 ratings — published 2020 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Dreams (Fortuna Sworn, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 6,300 ratings — published 2020 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Nightmares (Fortuna Sworn, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 3,976 ratings — published 2022 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endless Terrors (Fortuna Sworn, #5) 3.77 avg rating — 1,466 ratings — published 2023 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow and the Thimble 3.53 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waysider (The Voyants, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violent Awakening (Fortuna Sworn, #6) 3.96 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Door at the End of the Stars 3.81 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer in the Elevator 3.53 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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K.J. Sutton answered Lee's question: Hi K.J., I found Fortuna Sworn, but will the rest of your work ever be available on Kobo? Thanks! Hi Lee! Yes, you should be able to read my other books on Kobo—I sell the .epub files directly through my website, and I'm fairly certain those can be loaded onto Kobo/e-readers that support .epub. Thank you so much for wanting to read more!
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K.J. Sutton made a comment on her review of Smoke and Key " Thank you so much, Chan. That genuinely means the world to me. I do hope to return to the Fortuna world someday with a spinoff, but in the meantime, I ...more "
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Hello from the author, who has apparently entered her “digging up her own dead” era. I first wrote this book when I was in my early twenties, back when it was published as a young adult novel under Kelsey Sutton. Years later, I got the rights back, op ...more
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Soulless is live. I surprise dropped this one today because I wanted publishing to feel fun again. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how easy it is to lose the joy of storytelling under all the pressure, and I didn’t want that with this book. I wa ...more
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If you’ve made it all the way to Violent Awakening, you’ve walked beside Fortuna through six books. Writing this series has taken years of my life, and you choosing to spend your time and emotions on these characters means more than I can put into wo ...more
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“Sometimes it’s not about being stronger. It’s about being smarter.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

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“A beautiful thing was much harder to destroy than an ugly thing.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

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“God, give me patience or an untraceable handgun, I thought.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

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“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
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“And the mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea may claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours.”
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“There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”
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“She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.”
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message 3: by Claudie ☾

Feb 03, 2021 12:11PM

Thanks! That series is already on my list, but your recommendation means a lot. 😊 Now I’m curious about your books, though!

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message 2: by K.J.

Mar 14, 2020 03:33PM

AMY (pronounced Ⓐh-ℳeⓨ) ♔♔Queen Of Fat Cats ♔♔ DIE YOUNG ADULT GENRE DIE!♔♔ wrote: "Thank you for the FI!!!! I Luuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvvv your covers!"

Aw, right back at you! Thank you, I got so incredibly blessed with my cover artist. She's on Instagram as @UponaDaydreamer if you'd like to check her out!

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message 1: by AℳY♔Queen of Fat cats♔Ain't no lie Baby Byebyebye

Feb 12, 2020 12:38PM

Thank you for the FI!!!! I Luuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvvv your covers!

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