Meredith Ann Pierce (born July 5, 1958, in Seattle, Washington) is an American fantasy writer and librarian.
Published in 1982, The Darkangel featured a story that Pierce claims came to her all at once while she read the account of a dream recounted to Carl Jung, one of the fathers of psychiatry.
These books told the story of a slave girl who finds herself trying to kill a darkangel to avenge his kidnapping of her mistress.
She then finds herself forced to care for the thirteen wraiths who were once his beautiful and unwilling brides, and must also resist the attractions of the vampyre.
It started with Birth of the Firebringer in 1985, continued in Dark Moon, published in 1992, and ended with The Son of Summer Stars in 1996.