About the Author
Lauren Roberts is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Powerless, Powerful, Reckless, Fearless, and Fearful. She is currently working on her next, untitled project. The Powerless trilogy is currently in early development as a television series with Amazon MGM Studios.
Roberts’ New York Times bestselling trilogy, Powerless, follows the forbidden romance between a powerful prince and an ordinary girl as they try to survive their kingdom’s grueling laws. The kingdom of Ilya belongs to those who possess gifts, the Elites, and the Ordinaries who lack any power. When these Ordinaries are banished to create an Elite society, Paedyn Gray becomes a felon by fate and a thief by necessity. To survive, she poses as a Psychic before finding herself thrown into the Purging Trials–a brutal competition to display the Elite powers she does not have.
Powerful and Fearful are two novellas set during the Powerless trilogy. Powerful gives a fan favorite character a story of her own as she survives a dangerous existence. In Fearful, set during the time of Fearless, a mysterious figure arrives in the kingdom of Ilya to witness a fight for the throne and the price power costs a person.
Roberts’ books have currently sold over five million copies around the world. When Roberts isn’t writing about fantasy worlds and bantering love interests, she can be found burrowed in bed reading about them. Roberts has lived in Michigan her whole life, which makes her remarkably familiar with potholes, snow, and various lake activities. She hopes to have the privilege of writing pretty words, alongside her cat coauthors, for the rest of her life.
Raves and Reviews
Praise for Powerless
Lauren Roberts’s exciting story thrills with flirtatious banter, cutthroat battles, and searing betrayals…present[ing] a spin on the deadly game trope by incorporating multiple layers of complexity: dual POVs; fathers both admirable and problematic; hints of a love triangle between Pae and two brothers; sexually tense moments with ‘a promise of passion’; fierce training and fight sequences enhanced by creative abilities; and an underground Resistance hungry for revenge. Powerless is a compelling tale of darkness and destruction, of a divide carved by a vicious king, and of the lure of freedom, choice, and power.”
—Shelf Awareness
As the Trials become increasingly deadly, Paedyn and Kai must reconcile their burgeoning romantic feelings for each other with their respective places in a brutal and discriminatory society…Paedyn and Kai’s alternating POVs skillfully juxtapose steamy romantic encounters with heart-pounding action and gory violence, delivering a tale of political and personal intrigue that capably kicks off an epic trilogy.”
—Publishers Weekly
In the Media
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“Lauren Roberts to Join Powerless Full-Cast Audiobook: ‘Truly a Privilege’ (Exclusive)”
“‘Powerless’ author Lauren Roberts talks inspiration, #BookTok and ending the trilogy “
“The ‘Powerless’ TV Show: Everything We Know About the Prime Video Adaptation”
