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Jeffe Kennedy is a fantasy and erotic romance author who has published dozens of novels, including the fantasy romance series The Twelve Kingdoms, The Uncharted Realms and The Chroniclles of Dasnaria from Kensington Books. Her novel The Pages of the Mind won the 2017 RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance. In 2019, St. Martin's Press released The Orchid Throne, her first book in a new romantic fantasy series titled The Forgotten Empires. Life Jeffe Kennedy grew up in Aurora, Colorado, where she graduated from Overland High School. Her father was a U.S. Air Force pilot who died in the crash of an F-4 fighter plane in 1969. Kennedy received her undergraduate degree in biology and religious studies from the Washington University in St. Louis. She received a master's degree in neurophysiology from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, where she did her graduate work studying the brains of bats. Kennedy currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, near the Ortiz Mountains. Writing Kennedy has published 16 novels, many of which are erotic romance or epic romantic fantasies. 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." Kennedy's stories have been praised for being "well-written and swooningly romantic" containing relationships which are "gripping and realistic." Her stories have also been praised for their "depth of worldbuilding." She previously wrote the blog Contemporary Romance Cafe. Awards and honors Kennedy has received a fellowship from the Ucross Foundation, a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. The Mark of the Tala, the first book in the Twelve Kingdoms series, was the winner of a 2014 Seal of Excellence award from Romantic Times and a finalist for the 2014 Romantic Times Book of the Year. The third book in the series, The Talon of the Hawk, won the 2015 Best Fantasy Romance Award from Romantic Times while the series' second novel The Tears of the Rose was a finalist for the same award in 2014. 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 and won the 2017 RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America. 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. Her novella "The Dragons of Summer," which first appeared in the anthology Seasons of Sorcery, was a finalist for a 2019 RITA Award. 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) Five Golden Rings (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) Lonen's Reign (Brightlynx Publishing, 2017) Oria's Enchantment (Brightlynx Publishing, 2019) Forgotten Empires The Orchid Throne (St. Martin's Press, 2019) The Fiery Crown (St. Martin's Press, 2020) The Promised queen (St. Martin's Press, 2021) 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) 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) References External links Official website Jeffe Kennedy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. 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The Light Within
Grace DravenA bonus short story featuring Silhara and Martise from Master of Crows.In The Light Within, Silhara of Neith, now known as "the godsmiter," travels as the guest of honor to the win...
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Dragon Unleashed
Grace DravenA dragon shapeshifter and a healer with power over the earth fight a corrupt empire in this thrilling and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of...
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New Blood
Gail DaytonIn 1636, the last blood sorceress was burned at the stake. More than two hundred years later, her blood servant Jax has found her successor. Amanusa at first turns down the opportu...
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For Crown and Kingdom
Grace Draven & Jeffe KennedyFOR CROWN AND KINGDOMa duo of Fantasy romancesCrown of the Queen: a novella of the Twelve Kingdoms by Jeffe Kennedy~~It's been a lifetime since librarian Dafne Mailloux saw the cor...
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Wyvern
Grace DravenEight years earlier the talented fiddler, Elsbeth Weaver, gave up the man she loved to care for her ailing grandfather. Now, she must risk her life to save her grandfather from a l...
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The Ippos King
Grace DravenThe Wraith Kings saga continues.The demonic horde that threatened to devour the world has been defeated, but at great cost.Plagued by guilt and nightmares, Serovek Pangion sets out...
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Lover of Thorns and Holy Gods
Grace DravenA trilogy of short stories from the worlds of Master of Crows, Entreat Me and Radiance.STRONG BLOOD (3,504 words) – Ballard de Sauveterre from ENTREAT ME crosses time to share a dr...
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The Undying King
Grace DravenThe stories are told in whispers, even after so long: of a man whose fair rule soured when he attained eternal youth. Imprisoned by a sorceress wife in a city out of time and place...
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Entreat Me
Grace DravenAfflicted by a centuriesold curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son retu...
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A Memory of Summer
Grace DravenSpinsterhood has never bothered or embarrassed the independent Emerence Ipsan, and the winter festival of Delyalda keeps her far too busy managing her father's shops to worry about...
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Night Tide
Grace DravenSomething hunts the surf at night, luring villagers to their deaths with a lullaby of sorrow and the torture of nightmares.Blessed with the gift of watersight, Zigana Imre senses t...
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Phoenix Unbound
Grace DravenIn this USA Today bestselling novel, a woman with power over fire and illusion and the enslaved son of a chieftain battle a corrupt empire in this powerful and deeply emotional rom...
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In The Darkest Midnight
Grace Draven~Previously published in the AMID THE WINTER SNOW anthology.~The mark Jahna Uhlfrida was born with has made her a target of the cruel and idle all her life. During the long, crowde...
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Master of Crows
Grace DravenWhat would you do to win your freedom?This is the question that sets bondwoman, Martise of Asher, on a dangerous path. In exchange for her freedom, she bargains with her masters, t...
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Eidolon
Grace DravenSequel to RADIANCE and Book #2 in the Wraith Kings series.In a bid for more power, the Shadow Queen of Haradis unleashes a malignant force into the world. Her son Brishen, younger ...
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Gaslight Hades
Grace DravenNathaniel Gordon walks two worldsthat of the living and the dead. Barely human, he's earned the reputation of a Bonekeeper, the scourge of grave robbers. He believes his old life o...
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Radiance
Grace Draven~The Prince of No Value~Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance bet...
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The Brush of Black Wings
Grace Draven~The novellalength sequel to Master of Crows~During a foray into the woods of Neith, Martise stumbles upon a ruined temple and reawakens not only a power she thought lost, but also...
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A Wilderness of Glass
Grace DravenThe treacherous waters of the Gray have widowed many women in the village of Ancilar. But the sea gives back as well as takes away, something Brida Gazi discovers one bleak autumn ...