The novels of Aaron D. Stott
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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Meet Laura & Maya
Three worlds. Three first chapters. Start wherever you like.
Contemporary
Laura Chambers Is the Apocalypse in a Sweater
Modern-day Laura and Maya.
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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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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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Four Worlds
The same two women. Four different worlds.
Gothic
Ancient libraries, candlelit corridors, and a love story that refuses to die.
Romance
Libraries, coffee, awkward conversations, and two women quietly changing each other's lives.
Ice Age Survival
Fire, stone, survival, and the oldest stories ever painted.
Pulp Adventure
Ray guns, radioactive beasts, impossible science, and absolutely no restraint.
The Thread
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.
"Every story is a door. Walk through enough of them and you start to recognize the woman on the other side."
— Aaron D. Stott
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