Jami’s Books

Jami currently has two novels ready for submission:  The Resurrected, an urban fantasy with women’s fiction elements, and The Treasure of a Dragon’s Heart, a paranormal romance.

In addition, she also has a short story/novelette, The Hornet’s Virgin, a dystopian romance with paranormal and steampunk elements.

The Resurrected

To save the world, a mother must sacrifice her family.

No one would claim an ex-con-artist has the makings of a good mother.  Especially not Collette.  Regardless, she won’t let the past keep her from giving her son the loving childhood she never had.  In fact, devoting herself to her husband and young son seems like the perfect way to atone for her sins.

But her chance for redemption disappears when a power-hungry immortal orchestrates her abduction.  His scheme to control the world depends on her, willing or not.  The last thing she wants to do is add to her score of transgressions, so she rebels against his commands—until he threatens to kill her family.

Now Collette must choose: thwart his plans and endanger her husband and son, or submit and allow this tyrant to enslave humanity.

Completed 95K urban fantasy with women’s fiction elements.  Although this is a self-contained story with a definitive ending, it is intended to be the first book in The 7th Generation series.

The Treasure of a Dragon’s Heart

Will she trust her heart to the one man who can kill her?

Elaina Drake can’t help being a kleptomaniac.  After all, hoarding treasure is what dragons do.  And she desperately needs to increase her stockpile in order to shape-shift into a genuine dragon.  Until then, she’s stuck in her humanoid form—and too weak to defend herself against her murderous father who’s searching for her across the globe.

But during an acquisition foray at a black-tie party, the gorgeous host sees through her projected human appearance, leaving her terrified that she just stumbled into a situation even more dangerous than encountering her father.  According to dragon-lore, only a true knight could detect her real features.

And knights are the only humans able to kill dragons.

Lucky for her, he tries to seduce her instead.  She finds him irresistible, but there’s still that little problem of being hunted, so Elaina must decide: Is love more valuable than her life?

85K standalone paranormal romance (currently in final editing, ready for partial submission).

The Hornet’s Virgin

While this is a low-class hornet’s snuggery, I still have a shred of self-respect.

Like all female orphans in Downriver, Julia’s life follows a predictable path.  Work from the age of two.  Endure slavery at a snuggery from the age of eight.

And hope no one buys the key to her belt.

But when a powerful member of the ruling class pays a record amount for the right to strip her of her virginity, she’s going to lose her belt, the one thing protecting her from the rape gangs.  Julia’s days of relative safety will end—unless she can unravel the secrets of Downriver in time to save herself.

Completed 17K dystopian romance with paranormal and steampunk elements.  A spam comment to my blog (“While this is a low-class hornet’s snuggery”) inspired the first line of this short story and developed into a full-blown world, filled with hornets, snuggers, and the man who secretly controls them all.