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Trailerverse

Kimbra Swain · 6 series · 28 novels · 5 novellas · 2017–2023

Pull up a lawn chair, crack open something cold, and mind the glamour — the woman two trailers down in the cutoff shorts and cowboy boots is a fairy queen, and she is not in a good mood. This is the Trailerverse, Kimbra Swain's front-porch corner of Southern urban fantasy, where the old Fae have washed up in a small Alabama town called Shady Grove and the Queen of the Exiles pays her light bill by singing at the local bar. At its heart stands Grace Ann Bryant — Gloriana, "Glory" to nobody who values their teeth — a highborn Fae cast out of the courts and made reluctant sovereign to every misfit sprite, druid, and shifter run off from Summer and Winter alike. Her long first series, Fairy Tales of a Trailer Park Queen, anchors a world Swain keeps building outward. The Dog River Wolfpack follows the werewolves at the town's ragged edge; Stories of Frost and Fire and The Fire Realm Chronicles turn toward the elemental courts and their burning politics; the Pricks and Thorns Trilogy threads back through the same tangled bloodlines. One author, one red-dirt map, a whole holler of neighbors. What you get is fae politics with a twang — sweet tea and moonshine, gunfire and geasa, a heroine who cusses, grieves, and belts a country song while the fate of two worlds leans on her porch rail. Start where Glory does, with the first Trailer Park Queen book, and let the spinoffs wait until you know whose trailer is whose.

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Reading order

28 novels · 5 novellas

✦ Curated by the Loreful team

Kimbra Swain's five series share one world, starting with the title series and continuing through her spin-offs in publication order (Dog River Wolfpack and Stories of Frost and Fire both start 2019 — ordered as the worksheet lists them, own knowledge, marked uncertain ?).

25 of 33 works

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Trailerverse at the centre, 6 branches around it.

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What this universe published, when, and what it is made of.

33 works · 2017–2023 · busiest 2019 (9 works)

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  • 2020s14

Shape

28 novels · 5 novellas

1 author

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Mood

Bright and intense: 71% of this universe's placed works, the catalog's 44%.

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