Divine Warriors Series

“Amena’s Rise to Stardom: The Youngest Singer on Star Search Wins It All!” The truth about the pop singer’s dark past. Fifteen-year-old Amena is a spy and thief for the rebellion, but she dreams of being a singer. Fame seems impossible when she lives in a hidden village in a remote part of the empire. But when she gets arrested on an easy recon mission, a magical doorway appears and offers her a way out. When the goddess of the rainforest offers Amena a chance at her dreams, she chooses to risk it all. Leaving behind the rebellion, her mother, and everything she’s ever known, she can finally start her singing career. But the goddess’s magic comes with hidden costs. Joining the big competition, Star Search, Amena tries to balance her music with training as a divine warrior. She must serve the whims of the goddess and avoid her criminal record. A rival singer takes her breath away—but she’s hiding her own secrets. Her new life is more dangerous than the spy game she left behind. Is the price of fame too high when death is on the line? Amena’s Rise to Stardom is a prequel novella in the Divine Warriors, a steampunk fantasy series for teens. It can be read as a standalone or at any point in the series. If you like magical girls, pop concerts, and fast-paced adventure, then you’ll love Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears. Rated PG for mild violence and death. No sex or swearing. Contains LGBTQ+ characters and relationships.

A clumsy school girl with the magic of a goddess. Mechanical beasts attacking her friends. Can she become a divine warrior and save the floating city? Fifteen-year-old Riwenne is bad at school, chronically late, and lost in a daydream, but she has help from her best friend, Nexita—until the two of them get separated. During the mysterious test on Choosing Day, they both wanted to become priestesses, an important job in the sky city. But only Riwenne became a novice, and Nexita was chosen by the engineers. Now she’s on her own for the first time in her life. When a talking bird tells her that her best friend is under attack, Riwenne faces her worst fear. She must become a divine warrior and save her best friend from mechanical beasts! As she juggles warrior training and priestess duties, Riwenne can’t let herself get distracted. She must recruit other warriors and lead the quest to find out the mystery behind the mechanical beasts, but most of all, she must follow her heart. If she fails, the gods will judge her. Riwenne & the Mechanical Beasts is the first book in a steampunk fantasy series for teens. If you like magical girls, monstrous machines, and high-flying adventures, then you’ll love Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears.

Betrayed by her sister. Hunted by the empire. She gave up her normal life to become a divine warrior—then she lost the magic she needs to survive. Riwenne escaped the capital in the sky with her life and most of her friends, but one loss haunts her. Her sister, Nexita, betrayed them all. Now Riwenne’s out of magic, and nowhere is safe for the divine warriors. Defying the Empire put a price on their heads. With nothing but an airship and a few gods on their side, they need a new way to fight back! When she learns that their enemy, the sun goddess, is arming bionic witches with blood magic, Riwenne can’t ignore her mission to save the innocent. The only magic that can stop the sun is the moon goddess. But the moon goddess was banished, her name is forbidden. Riwenne must search for ancient clues to free the moon. As she struggles to regain her magic and find her place in the team, Riwenne is tempted to give up the fight. But nothing can ever be the same again. Sooner or later, she’ll have to face the one person she dreads—and this time, the fight is to the death. Can she kill to save the people she loves? Riwenne & the Bionic Witches is the second book in a steampunk fantasy series for teens. If you like magical girls, giant airships, and fast-paced adventure, then you’ll enjoy Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears.

The champion of the sea goddess must lead the holiday ritual to thank the sea. But if they can’t even read the words, how can Vilqa find the perfect gift? Vilqa got the opportunity of a lifetime to serve the sea goddess, Sawycha. But being a Divine Warrior comes with lots of responsibilities, and Vilqa is struggling to keep up. They’re still learning how to read, and their leader, Riwenne, wrote down the ritual instructions with very messy handwriting. Vilqa needs help to decipher the ritual and figure out the right gift to show gratitude on Winter Solstice, the holiday for the sea. Vilqa only has one day to prepare and avoid total humiliation. “Vilqa’s Gift for the Sea Goddess” is a holiday short story in the Divine Warriors, a steampunk fantasy series for teens. It’s set a few months after the events of book three, but it can be enjoyed as a stand-alone. Vilqa is a non-binary individual who uses they/them pronouns.

A young prophet still learning her powers. A single city standing against the might of the empire. Can the dream of the rebellion last? Fifteen-year-old Riwenne never considered herself a prophet, but when she rescued Lyndamon City from destruction, people called her a miracle worker. Now the city she saved is under an even greater threat. When they declared their independence, the rest of the empire prepared their airships for an attack. Lyndamon is still defenseless from the last battle and they don’t have resources to rebuild. In a desperate bid to protect her fragile home, Riwenne must find more divine warriors to fight for her cause—but not everyone with a god’s power is on her side. When mysterious warriors attack, she must persuade them to join her team or she must defeat them. Still haunted by her last kill, Riwenne is reluctant to use lethal force again. Between negotiating with gods and her new relationship, Riwenne barely has time to rest. Her sleep is haunted by nightmares of what she’s done and visions of what could happen if she fails. The fate of the gods hangs in the balance. Riwenne & the Airship Gambit is the third book in a steampunk fantasy series for teens. If you like magical girls, giant airships, and fast-paced adventure, then you’ll enjoy Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears.

A young priestess sworn to a forbidden goddess. A hard-won treaty to protect her people. But now a new prophecy could destroy their fragile peace. The teen prophet Riwenne has performed many miracles to protect her friends and save her city from the oppressive empire. Now she has a new ally, another nation who declared their independence and helped to defend her city. But when Riwenne shares her religious beliefs, the new prime minister of the neighboring country is reluctant to accept them. His people have been burned by priestesses before—and they executed the old priestesses for their crimes. As Riwenne tries to show her allies the power of magic, a mysterious circus appears in the city. Calling themselves the Scientific Circus, they are spreading a prophecy of their own—that electricity and technology can free humanity from the need for any gods. Their Chief Scientist challenges Riwenne to a contest between science and magic. She may be a divine warrior, but Riwenne can’t fight her way out of this. When violence isn’t the answer and people aren’t impressed by her miracles, she must find a new way to win people to her side. She can’t afford to lose the only allied nation that she has against the empire. Or she will be the next priestess to meet the executioner’s blade. Riwenne & the Electrical Prophecy is the fourth book in a steampunk fantasy series for teens. If you like magical girls, lesbian romance, and high-flying adventures, then you’ll love Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears.

A teen girl chosen to wield the power of a goddess. Flying cities falling from the sky. Can she find out why the machines are failing and fix them in time to save everyone? The teenage prophet Riwenne performed a miracle when she saved her flying city from crashing into the ocean. But no one alive knows how the cities became airborne hundreds of years ago. The high priestess tried to create her own flying city and put a barren rock in the sky, too high for anyone to live on... and now it’s falling. All the imperial sky cities are falling. The Synthetic Ethereal Apparatus that holds up each capital is failing. If they crash, thousands of homes and businesses will be destroyed. Massive devastation could ruin her enemy’s territory but at the cost of innocent lives. To save the floating cities, Riwenne will need more power than she’s ever used before. She must find the secret of the Ethereal Apparatus and how to repair it. She’ll need new allies: the planetary warriors who refused to join her once already. But it also means working with her enemies in the Empire who tried to kill her. She can’t stand by and let their people die. If they don’t work together, their world will never be the same. Riwenne & the Ethereal Apparatus is the fifth book in a steampunk fantasy series for teens. If you like magical girls, lesbian romance, and high-flying adventures, then you’ll love Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears.

A teen girl has become a prophet of legend. Now she faces her greatest challenge: killing the sun goddess who oppresses her people. Riwenne has performed countless miracles and saved hundreds of thousands with her powerful magic. With the aid of the moon goddess, she has turned back time and reversed death. The empire is falling apart and its people are looking to the rebels for help. For the first time in centuries, there is hope of a better future. She’s ready to end the violence and find peace. But her greatest enemy, the sun goddess Chysa, isn’t going down without a fight. She transforms the empress into a demigod who can bring death and destruction on a scale they've never seen before. And together, they make a machine that can kill gods. To stop the sun goddess once and for all, Riwenne must get her hands dirty again. This time, the evil goddess won’t stop at imprisoning her rival gods. The sun and the moon goddesses are locked in a battle to the death. Riwenne's friends aren't strong enough, so she'll need the help of her own rivals. Time for her to fulfill her destiny and kill a god. Riwenne & the God-Killing Machine is the final book in a steampunk fantasy series for teens. If you like magical girls, lesbian romance, and clashes of the gods, then you’ll love Kristen S. Walker’s series of guns and gears. Preorder it today!