LAUREN STABLER
Dystopian Author
Stories about survival, resistance, and the relationships that make freedom worth fighting for.
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Meet Lauren
Hi, I’m Lauren Stabler. I love to read and explore new worlds. My active imagination has afforded me many opportunities to create worlds in my head. But when I couldn’t find books that matched the stories I dreamt up for people my age, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to write my own.
I hold a BA and an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. When I’m not writing, I can be found reading, playing The Sims, my absolute favourite game, or spending time with my long-haired ginger cat, Maisie. I recently moved to the Scottish Highlands and am loving living by the sea.
Trials of the Realm
The Realm Trilogy · Book 1
When life has stripped you of everything, how hard will you fight to get it back?
Adelaide Taylor’s life is anything but ideal. After losing her parents to the new, tyrannical government, she’s forced to live in an orphanage for women under twenty-five.
While she toils away six days a week at a thankless job, the government systematically destroys the country. Elections are abolished. Borders are closed. The death penalty is reinstated for anyone who dares defy the new world order. All anyone can do is hope they survive.
But Adelaide needs more than hope. She needs a way out.
When new trials are introduced, she jumps at the chance to win a second chance at life. Should she win, she will regain some semblance of normality. But success won’t come easily, and failure will mean death.
Will she escape this brutal life or has her fate already been sealed?
Children of the Realm
The Realm Trilogy · Book 2
There is a heavy price to pay for freedom…
Adelaide Taylor is alive. She wishes the others could say the same. After surviving the trials and losing Celeste and the others, she’s hard-pressed to feel anything beyond lost.
The harrowing ordeal garnered some wins, but having Isaac, a spot at uni, and a home are only temporary salves to the utter devastation she and the others have suffered. She knows they’re temporary. At any moment, the universe will force her to repay the favor.
When she’s offered an alternative, Adelaide must weigh the potential consequences. In her world, nothing is free, and anything could end in disaster.
Will she rise to the challenge or fall victim to yet another scourge?
Find out in this adrenaline-rushing sequel to Trials of the Realm!
Queen of the Realm
The Realm Trilogy · Book 3
How far would you go if you had nothing left to lose?
Adelaide Taylor is alone and on the run. A wanted fugitive, if she is captured, she will be forced into horrific new trials, a series of dangerous scare mazes. Nightmare fuel awaits within these labyrinths, designed to take Adelaide down once and for all.
Now Adelaide is in a race against time to find her cousin, overcome James’ new class system, and broadcast a message to cut through the propaganda.
When she discovers her true identity, Adelaide must find a way to overthrow the tyrannical James. She’s willing to pass through hell to finally reclaim her country’s freedom, but liberation isn’t what she thought it would be.
Will she finally end the era of oppression or only spark a new dystopian regime?
Find out in the adrenaline-rushing finale of the Realm series!
Lightworlds
The Lightworlds Series · Book 1
What would you risk to find love?
In a world where virtual reality rules all and your worth is determined by preset levels upon birth, marriage before you turn thirty is the only way to secure a stable life – or so Althea Moore thinks.
At twenty-nine, she’s nearly out of options – find a match now or remain a single for life. Desperate to find someone who loves her, she enters the country’s biggest competition: Sovereign Romance. The prize this year? King Logan’s hand in marriage, become queen, and raise your level as high as it can go.
But the game is different this time. The stakes are lethal. A virus spreads through the house; girls unwittingly drop, one by one.
But that isn’t the only threat. Althea faces the biggest choice of her life: freedom or love.
Unbound
The Lightworlds Series · Book 2
He feels like freedom.
But freedom is an illusion.
Althea has reached the final stage of Sovereign Romance, but her choices led to the release of a virus with lethal consequences within the game. And beyond it. Now, the country is in lockdown. Trapped between guilt and fear, Althea wants nothing more than to escape, to feel even a fleeting taste of freedom.
Niko offers her that escape. Logan offers her control.
When cracks begin to form in their relationship, Althea realises the virus is not what the news claims. It is more violent. More chaotic. And the truth has been buried.
As Althea navigates a fractured country with both Niko and Logan pulling her in different directions, the final challenge of Sovereign Romance looms. The obstacle course could decide more than just the winner.
This time, Althea’s choice is not about love.
It is about freedom and power.
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