The The Princess of Portals e-book is now available from all Amazon stores! This is the fourth book in my Paragons series.

When you’re a Knight, sacrifice is just part of the game.

Savannah Winters has waited her whole life to join the Knights of Gaia. Now, right on the eve of her ascension, she stands to lose it all.

It’s been seven days since the attack. Seven days since the fire. Seven days since Savannah’s friend Kylie was abducted by a subversive supernatural organization determined to take over the Many Realms and make slaves of the Knights.

So when an explosive encounter points the way to Kylie, Savannah doesn’t hesitate. If she moves fast enough, she can save her friend and expose the villains who took her. But if she fails, she will become their next victim.

Magic, mystery, love, betrayal, and sacrifice collide in this fast-paced fantasy adventure story.

The Princess of Portals is the fourth book in the Paragons urban fantasy series, a tale of chivalrous knights, snarky heroes, supernatural drama—and one young woman’s epic journey to defy the naysayers and seize her destiny.

As with the other books in the series, I’ve written an extra episode to go along with Book 4. It’s called The Countess of Chaos and features Savannah.

Seventeen years ago, the Countess of Chaos, one of the six Paragons of Magic, disappeared. She’s been missing ever since.

Savannah sets out on a Quest to find the Countess of Chaos, a Sorcerer with the power to turbo-charge any person’s magic. For Savannah, however, the Countess represents something far more valuable: a chance to recover the most precious thing she’s ever lost.

The Countess of Chaos + a growing list of many other bonus stories across my varios series are available for all Phoenixes & Dragons (patrons). Here are the current bonus stories they get:

• Paragons: 4 stories
• Phoenix Dynasty: 2 stories
• Immortal Legacy: 3 stories
• Angels & Gods (miniseries): 6 episodes
• Legion of Angels: 1 story
• Dragon Born: 1 story

Each new book I write will get a bonus story (or maybe two). I'm also writing bonus stories for older titles as I have ideas and time.

Thanks for your support! And happy reading!

❤️ Ella

The title says it all. I've finished writing the fourth Paragons book: The Princess of Portals.

The Princess of Portals will be on Amazon once I get the files ready in the coming days.

As always, there's a bonus episode/story, this time told from Savannah's POV; the story title is The Countess of Chaos. It's only available directly from me.

Dragons will get the extended e-book (The Princess of Portals + The Countess of Chaos) from me. Phoenixes will get the bonus story (The Countess of Chaos) from me.

As a reminder, both Dragons and Phoenixes have access to a pretty large catalogue of bonus stories from my various series. When I write the Countess of Chaos release post in a few days, I will add those download links to the post so you don't have to hunt through my old posts to find them.

I've written an update on my Paragons series here if you want to read more. The Paragons update includes audiobook and print news and some pictures.

Talk to you soon!

🩷 Ella

Hi, all! Here's what I've been working on.

I'm still trying to get the final three Paragons books finished. My first 4 audiobooks should soon be ready. And I'm working on a new series.

Paragons. Books 4-6 are all plotted and partially written. Book 4 is polished up through the first few episodes. Work has been a bit slow due to the other things I'm working on at the same time.

Audiobooks. All are full-cast, dramatized. Phoenix Dynasty Books 1 & 2 are fully edited, and I'm about to proof what are hopefully the final versions of these audiobooks. I'm supposed to get Paragons 1 tomorrow and Paragons 2 in the coming days from the studio. The audiobooks are taking longer than expected due to technical hiccups, some actor issues, and just because full-cast audiobooks are like TV shows and have so much more complexity than simple narrator readings. This means I've already listened to these books several times already, each audiobook listen requiring 2+ full work days on my end to check for issues. I'm hoping all the issues have finally been fixed and these audiobooks will be ready for release soon. 🤞 I'm told the Immortal Legacy series (all 3 books) has been recorded and now all the actors' parts need to be put together.

New Series. I won't spoil the surprise right now, but I'm excited about it. It's requiring some pretty complex, detailed pre-planning to make the books work together.

Other. I'll go back to writing the next Phoenix Dynasty books once the Paragons books are done. And, regarding audio, I've had a load of questions about Legion of Angels (LoA). That is an enormous project, so we need to get some (or all) of the current 7 audio projects finished before we dive into LoA audio. Hopefully, we've worked out most of the kinks in the process by now, so it will go smoothly.

❤️ Ella

* Photo: Oxshott Heath, just outside of London.

Here are a few quick photos I took of the first paperback proof I got in the mail.

More photos to come when I get the versions with the sprayed edges.

An update for December. Things have been crazy-busy. I'm trying to get a bunch of things finished, so I'll be brief. Here's what's happening:

https://www.ellasummers.com/december-2025-update-on-upcoming-books-and-audiobooks/

Summary: we've moved countries (again) and some updates on my upcoming books/audiobooks.

Plans for today: I will be listening to some more chapters of the edited Firestone Fantasy audiobook and preparing my comments for the producer. And maybe trying to sleep a little. During the move, I must have caught something because I'm not feeling completely well.

Enjoy the holidays!

❤️ Ella

Photo: My cat Savannah on her cardboard throne.

Hi, all!

I've had a lot going these past few weeks. As as result of some unwanted drama, I've had to rearrange my publishing schedule. Here's the quick version.

The "drama" involves a voice actor on one of the audiobook projects misbehaving (violating contracts with my publisher and a bunch of other companies/organizations), which has landed in a big hot mess on my already-overflowing plate. To secure the future of all audiobooks in that series, I am now prioritizing writing the remaining books in the Paragons series, so we can get all that recorded asap before something else happens.

The Paragons series will be 6 books. 3 books are done. The remaining 3 books are all outlined in detail and in various stages of writing. Unfortunately, this means Diamond Dragon, the next Phoenix Dynasty book and what was supposed to be my next release, has to be pushed back.

Once the final 3 Paragons books are done (hopefully in the next few months), I can write the audiobook scripts for them. Then they can be recorded, edited, and released as audiobooks. I'm likely holding off on releasing the audiobooks until we at least have all the actors' parts recorded for all books in the series in order to ensure consistency. No one wants us to have to change any of the actors mid-series because of shenanigans. Lately, it feels like shenanigans are growing like weeds all around me.

Once I've finished writing the remaining Paragons books, I will go back to Phoenix Dynasty. I will then prioritize writing all the Phoenix Dynasty books because the first audiobooks in the series are also in production. There hasn't been much audiobook craziness in that series (unlike poor Paragons, which has seen nothing but drama since the project began), but after all that's happened, I'm paranoid something will come up.

The Legion of Angels and Immortal Legacy audiobook projects (both complete series) are for the most part unaffected by all of this, except a slight delay in LoA since I don't have as much time to work on the scripts at the moment.

Speaking of Immortal Legacy, I'll try to post the third new story this weekend, so keep an eye out for that. 

Happy Halloween and have a great weekend!

❤️ Ella