Laura Lam is a Sunday Times best-selling British (expatriate American) speculative fiction author, who lives in Scotland.
It is a young adult novel telling the story of an intersex character, Micah Grey, who has run away from home to become a circus aerialist.
In July 2014 Lam signed a six-figure two-book deal with Tor Books, for the full world English language rights to False Hearts and Shattered Minds.
[11] Subsequently, the Italian, German, and French rights for False Hearts were taken up, by Fanucci Editore, Heyne Verlag and Bragelonne respectively.
Laura Lam and Elizabeth May have co-written a space opera entitled Seven Devils, out through Gollancz in the UK and DAW in the US.