Before her name appeared on pre-release bestseller lists or drew comparisons to Crescent City and Fourth Wing, Jordan Stephanie Gray was a quiet observer of the world—someone more likely to sketch characters in the margins of a notebook than speak up in a crowded room. A lover of fairy tales and gothic mysteries, she didn’t set out to become a fantasy author; she simply couldn’t stop imagining lives lived on the knife’s edge of enchantment and danger.
Her debut novel, Bitten, is the kind of book that refuses to stay in one lane. Equal parts dark fantasy, court intrigue, and slow-burn romance, it follows seventeen-year-old Vanessa Hart, a girl who loses everything to a werewolf attack—and gains something far more dangerous in return. It’s a story of power and transformation, of blood ties and betrayals, of learning that the monsters outside are rarely as terrifying as the ones within.
Jordan’s writing blends the atmospheric dread of a haunted castle with the emotional rawness of coming-of-age heartbreaks. Her characters aren’t just thrown into magical wars—they navigate forbidden love, fragile alliances, and the quiet grief of becoming someone new. With Bitten, she invites readers into Castle Severi, a world ruled by wolves and shadowed by secrets.
Originally from a small town she lovingly calls "the kind of place where even the secrets are polite," Jordan now lives with her family, two mischievous pugs, and an ever-growing collection of half-finished hobbies—knitting, painting, and gardening among them. She jokes that she writes books as an excuse to avoid cleaning the house, though anyone who’s read Bitten knows she’s more at home crafting curses and crowns than sweeping up after them.
While she’s still a newcomer in the fantasy romance world, early readers are already hooked on her lyrical prose and morally complex characters. And if the buzz around Bitten is any indication, Jordan Stephanie Gray is a name fantasy readers will be whispering about long after the final page.
