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Memoir, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and history told in panels as much as prose.
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Laura Chambers & Maya Novak
Different world.Different genre.Different life.
The same two women.
In libraries. Beneath mountains. In castles. At the end of the world.
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Start with Laura Chambers Is the Apocalypse in a Sweater
If you're new here, this is the door. A quiet archaeology student. A disruptive urban planning student. Shared tables in the university library. Coffee that starts to feel like a ritual. Conversations about Ice Age lions that drift into territory that is very much not academic. Every other story asks the same question in a different world: what happens when Laura Chambers and Maya Novak meet?
Longlisted for the 2026 ProWritingAid Novel Beginnings Prize.
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Meet them in two more worlds
Ice Age survival or gothic romance. Start wherever you like.
Ice Age
Tell Me About the Lions
Laura enters Chauvet Cave. She does not come out where she expects.
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Gothic
Miss Chambers and the Countess
A remote castle. An archive. A Countess who is not what she appears.
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Emma & Harriet, Twenty Years Later
A sapphic reading of Jane Austen’s Emma and the friendship the marriage plot leaves behind.
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Immortal women, candlelit castles, and love stories that refuse to die.
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Why Laura and Maya?
Laura Chambers and Maya Novak are not tied to one genre. They reappear across standalone novels in worlds that share nothing but the two of them — a university library, a Victorian estate, an Ice Age steppe, a radioactive desert.
Read them in any order. Each book is complete. But read enough of them and a larger shape begins to form: the same relationship, tested by utterly different circumstances.
Aaron D. Stott writes them one world at a time.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
In what order should I read the Laura and Maya books?
Every novel is standalone and can be read in any order. Most readers begin with Laura Chambers Is the Apocalypse in a Sweater, which was longlisted for the 2026 ProWritingAid Novel Beginnings Prize.
Are the Laura Chambers and Maya Novak books sapphic?
Yes. The novels center on a slow-burn relationship between two women across gothic romance, historical fiction, Ice Age survival, and pulp science fiction settings.
Where can I buy the books?
All available titles are listed on the Books page at lauraandmaya.com/books, with direct links to Amazon for each novel.