Jeffe Kennedy

Jeffe Kennedy is a fantasy and erotic romance author^[1] who has published 19 novels, including the fantasy romance series The Twelve Kingdoms from Kensington Books.

Life

Jeffe Kennedy lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, near the Ortiz Mountains.^[2]

Writing

Kennedy has published 16 novels, many of which are erotic romance or epic romantic fantasies.^[3] She has also published essays, short stories and poetry in a number of publications including Redbook, The SFWA Bulletin, and Romantic Times, among others.

Kennedy says that "Fantasy romance hits my sweet spot. The fantasy aspect lets me create worlds, set up the social mores for maximum thrill and have heroines who are larger than life. The romance gives me room to have the heroines find themselves through sexual exploration and the love of someone who appreciates them as no one else does. Both allow for the heights of emotion that lead to personal transformation, which I love."^[4]

Kennedy's stories have been praised for being "well-written and swooningly romantic"^[5] containing relationships which are "gripping and realistic."^[6] Her stories have also been praised for their "depth of worldbuilding."^[7]

Awards and honors

Kennedy has received a fellowship from the Ucross Foundation, a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry,^[8] and a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award.^[9]

The Mark of the Tala, the first book in the Twelve Kingdoms series,^[10] was the winner of a 2014 Seal of Excellence award from Romantic Times^[11] and a finalist for the 2014 Romantic Times Book of the Year. ^[12] The third book in the series, The Talon of the Hawk, won the 2015 Best Fantasy Romance Award from Romantic Times^[13] while the series' second novel The Tears of the Rose was a finalist for the same award in 2014.^[14]

The Pages of the Mind, the first book in Kennedy's Uncharted Realms series, was a finalist for the 2016 Best Fantasy Romance Award from Romantic Times.^[15]

The book For Crown and Kingdom: A Duo of Fantasy Romances, containing one novella by Grace Draven and one by Kennedy, was selected by Library Journal as one of the Best Books of 2016 in the category of e-originals genre fiction.^[16]

Selected bibliography

Novels

Facets of Passion series

• Sapphire (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2011)
• Platinum (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2013)
• Ruby (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2013)

The Covenant of Thorns series

• Rogue's Pawn (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2012)
• Rogue's Possession (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2013)
• Rogue's Paradise (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2014)

Falling Under series

• Going Under (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2014)
• Under His Touch (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2015)
• Under Contract (Harlequin imprint Carina Press, 2015)

Master of the Opera (Kensington Books, serial novel, 2014)

Released serially as

• Master of the Opera Act 1: Passionate Overture
• Master of the Opera, Act 2: Ghost Aria
• Master of the Opera, Act 3: Phantom Serenade
• Master of the Opera, Act 4: Dark Interlude
• Master of the Opera Act 5: A Haunting Duet
• Master of the Opera, Act 6: Crescendo

Sorcerous Moons series

• Lonen's War (Brightlynx Publishing, 2016)
• Oria’s Gambit (Brightlynx Publishing, 2016)
• The Tides of Bára (Brightlynx Publishing, 2016)
• The Forests Of Dru (Brightlynx Publishing, 2017)

The Twelve Kingdoms Universe

Novels in the Twelve Kingdoms series

• The Mark of the Tala (Kensington Books, 2014)
• The Tears of the Rose (Kensington Books, 2014)
• The Talon of the Hawk (Kensington Books, 2015)

Novels in the Uncharted Realms series

• The Pages of the Mind (Kensington Books, 2016)^[17]
• The Edge of the Blade (Kensington Books, 2017)

Novellas in the Twelve Kingdoms universe

• Heart's Blood (2015)
• "The Crown of the Queen," (published in For Crown and Kingdom: A Duo of Fantasy Romances by Grace Draven and Jeffe Kennedy, 2017)^[18]

External links

• Official website
• Jeffe Kennedy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

References