The Unseen War · Book I
Awoke
Katya Stevens can see the dead in their most grotesque forms. Boston isn't big enough to hide from what she is — and the world needs her whether she's ready or not.
Author · Fantasy & Literary FictionK. T.
K. T.
Conte
“I write the books I wished I could find when I was a kid.”
Dynamic Black characters in extraordinary worlds — built from a first-generation Haitian-American perspective, and a lifetime of living between.
The Author
Worlds built from the in-between
K.T. Conte has worlds in her head, and she intends to get every one of them out. She writes fantasy and literary fiction rooted in the experience of Black women who are chosen, called, and complicated — characters she needed to see as a kid and didn't.
A Haitian-American author, first daughter, Boston College English grad and practicing attorney — she has always chosen books first. Her characters carry that same tension: straddling worlds, finding themselves in the space between.
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Amazon Bestseller · Urban Fantasy
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Reviewed & Featured
Feb 2024
Awoke · Published by Sugarcane Publishing
The Work
The worlds so far
More coming. Always more coming.
The Unseen War · Book II
Rise
The war that began in the shadows breaks into the open. Katya Stevens and Gregor face an escalating conflict, the expansion of her powers, and revelations that will change everything — including what Katya is becoming.
Conte weaves a fast-paced tale where Katya enters a whole new realm and finds a new appreciation of life, death, and the beyond. The author's worldbuilding skills are impressive, with Conte revealing new information at a steady clip that keeps the pages turning.