Rebecca Cantrell

Rebecca Cantrell is an American novelist known for historical and supernatural thrillers, including her Edgar Award-winning Hannah Vogel series set in 1930s Berlin, before joining James Rollins as a co-author on the Order of the Sanguines series. The Order of the Sanguines novels blend historical conspiracy, religious mystery, and vampiric mythology, following a secret Vatican-sanctioned order investigating threats tied to an ancient bloodline, and combine Rollins's high-concept thriller plotting with Cantrell's own strengths in historical atmosphere and character depth. Cantrell, who has lived and worked internationally, brings research-driven historical detail to her fiction, a quality evident across both her solo Hannah Vogel novels and her contributions to the Rollins collaboration. Her partnership with Rollins extended across multiple entries in the series, allowing the two authors to combine large-scale thriller set pieces with the kind of grounded period detail Cantrell had already demonstrated in her award-winning solo work. She continues to write across historical fiction, thrillers, and young adult fiction, maintaining an active and varied publishing career.