Our Infinite Fates

Laura Steven is an English novelist who has written several books for children and young adults, including Every Exquisite Thing (inspired in part by Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray) and the middle grade novels And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid and its sequel, Don’t Tell Him I’m a Mermaid. Her works often include supernatural or fantastical elements, and she most enjoys writing LGBTQ+ characters, saying, “Truthfully, I write the world the way I see and experience it, and as a Bisexual woman, I’ve surrounded myself with a glorious Queer community. It would feel strange to me not to represent that on the page” (Anderson, Lindsey. “Laura Steven Explores the Power of Anger in Soulless Girls.” SGN, 6 Oct. 2023). 

Our Infinite Fates, a romantasy that features gender-fluid main characters, is emblematic of Steven’s interests and oeuvre. Like The Society for Soulless Girls, which is a “sapphic horror retelling of Jekyll & Hyde,” Our Infinite Fates explores relationships among characters who don’t identify as heterosexual (“About.” Laura “L.K.” Steven). In every life, Evelyn and Arden are reborn, each with the potential to become a boy or a girl.