The books follow Cas Lowood, a teenage ghost hunter whose father was killed by ghosts. The Anna Duology is a two book series comprising the books Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares. This series will is set in the same universe as the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In April 2021, Publishers Weekly announced Disney-Hyperion had obtained the rights to a new trilogy series by Blake, to be entitled In Every Generation. A stand-alone horror novel titled All These Bodies was released in 2021. This was confirmed by a small piece in Publishers Weekly online on November 11.

In November 2019 Blake announced via an Instagram post that Harper Teen would also be publishing her next three books. Her Anna Dressed in Blood duology and Goddess Wars trilogy were originally published in English by Tor Teen, while the Three Dark Crowns series was published by Harper Teen. Several of her works have been listed on the New York Times' Best Seller's List. Her books stretch over a variety of genres, including horror, fantasy and contemporary fiction. It was at the latter where she received her Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing.

She is an alumna of both Ithaca College (in New York) and Middlesex University in London. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Kendare Blake was raised in Cambridge, Minnesota by adoptive parents. Her works include Anna Dressed in Blood, Antigoddess and Three Dark Crowns. Kendare Blake is a contemporary author of young adult novels.

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