Katie Pembrooke
She writes for the calculating, the strategic, and the unapologetically ruthless.
Katie Pembrooke is an independent fiction author and the founder of Pembrooke Publishing - a boutique imprint built on the belief that great storytelling doesn't wait for permission.
Her novels live at the intersection of psychological tension and cinematic precision. Whether she's mapping the power vacuum inside a Boston criminal syndicate, tracing the quiet devastation of a marriage built on lies, or tracking the first woman to crack the glass ceiling of a premier motorcycle racing league, Katie writes characters who don't survive by luck. They survive by outthinking everyone in the room.
Her work is defined by morally complex protagonists, high-stakes environments rooted in real-world research, and a refusal to flinch. Her protagonists - whether they are reluctantly inherited mob CEOs, burned intelligence assets, cybersecurity analysts executing a hostile corporate takeover, or calculating racers in a sport that was never built for them - share one defining trait: they do not wait to be saved.
Beyond the Page
Katie is a U.S. Navy veteran, a mom, and a lifelong student of strategy - in fiction and in life. She founded Pembrooke Publishing not just to publish her own work, but to build the kind of independent imprint she always wished existed: one that treats authors like partners and readers like they're smart enough to handle the dark stuff.
When she's not writing, she's deep in race telemetry, courtroom procedure, or a bottle of something red. She never writes a villain she doesn't understand.
The Black Flag Series
Featured Series
"She wasn't given a seat at the table. She built the table, set it on fire, and won the race anyway."
