The Falconer
My name is Lady Aileana Kameron.
Debutante and heiress by day. Murderer by night.
Managing my two lives is difficult; it's lucky that killing the creatures who murdered my mother isn't.
Join my battle. Enter my world.
Alieana x
18 year old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, was destined to a life carefully planned around Edinburgh's social events - right up until a faery kills her mother.
Now it's the 1844 winter season. Between a seeming endless number of parties, Aileana slaughters faeries in secret. Armed with modified percussion pistols and explosives, every night she sheds her aristocratic facade and goes hunting. She's determined to track down the faery who murdered her mother, and to destroy any who prey on humans in the city's many dark alleyways.
But she never even considered that she might become attracted to one. To the magnetic Kiaran MacKay, the faery who trained her to kill his own kind. Nor is she at all prepared for the revelation he's going to bring. Because Midwinter is approaching, and with it an eclipse that has the ability to unlock a Fae prison and begin the Wild Hunt.
A battle looms, and Aileana is going to have to decide how much she's willing to lose - and just how far she'll go to avenge her mother's murder.
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Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May writes the kind of stories that blur the boundary between myth and memory, between rebellion and longing. Born in California but rooted in Scotland, she carries the cadence of both places into her novels: sunlit imagination tempered by windswept grit. Readers first met her through The Falconer trilogy, a series where fae magic, vengeance, and steampunk invention collided in a whirlwind of danger and desire.
Her writing thrives on contrasts. With Laura Lam, she co-created the Seven Devils duology, a feminist space opera often described as Mad Max: Fury Road among the stars. More recently, she turned to Slavic-inspired romantasy with To Cage a God, a tale of revolution, sacrifice, and love that earned recognition on Paste Magazine’s Best New Books list. Under the name Katrina Kendrick, she explores historical romance, proving that whether the setting is an empire at war or a glittering ballroom, her characters always burn with intensity and conviction.
The Falconer
The Falconer consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
