About the Author

Cami Murdock Jensen writes fantasy about people the world has counted out — and about what they discover they are capable of when no one is watching. Across two series and eleven books, her characters win by refusing to lie: to their enemies, to the people who love them, and above all to themselves.

Her epic fantasy series, Forging Kings: The Sword of Gaia, spans six books in two arcs, with Book One, Kingdoms Fallen and Found, available now. It follows Paelinar, a young king who never wanted a crown — he only ever wanted to serve — as he races to defend his port city from invaders under yellow sails while a mythical forest called the Lure creeps toward his fledgling nation, luring its victims with emotions that are not their own. Fighting it takes more than a sword. It takes the Shurate Brotherhood: warrior knights trained in emotional mastery, whose code becomes the whole architecture of Paelinar's conscience, and whose found family is the emotional core of the series. Beside him is a soul-seer handmaiden who can see through every defense he has built — which makes her the one person he cannot manage, and the slow burn of six books. Across the sea, an exiled enemy is building an empire, and he is coming for Paelinar.

The Arch Mage Series didn't begin in a notebook. It began on walks.

When Cami's daughter was diagnosed with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and chronic migraines, the illness brought deconditioning that made everything harder. To fight back, they started walking together — short distances at first, often painful, always difficult. To make it through, they talked. They invented a girl who understood what it felt like to live inside a body that didn't cooperate: a protagonist who faced her challenges not after overcoming her illness, but while still carrying it, every single day.

That girl is Agnes Cavanaugh — sixteen, a burn survivor, chronically ill, and the only wizard on a planet that banned magic 5,000 years ago. Her scars are never erased. Her neuropathy is never magically resolved. She saves the multiverse anyway. That was always the point, and it came directly from watching a real girl find her strength one step at a time.

Cami grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah with two obsessions that seemed unrelated: science and storytelling. As a senior in high school she won the Sterling Scholar in science and cloned DNA at the state level. One year later she wrote and composed the score for her first children's musical. She has spent her adult life teaching, directing, writing, and composing — and never stopped believing that the most powerful stories are the ones that make someone feel less alone.

She lives in Utah with six children, nine grandchildren, and a husband who is a much better hero than any prince, and who also handles her marketing, which may be the most heroic thing of all.