Melded

An illustrated queer dark fantasy romance

Gen is running from his fate—and love—but it’s happening anyway.

He’s rejected his responsibility to his island’s temple to translate scrolls for Simon Holiday, a human ambassador with his own unavoidable past. When Simon becomes the first human invited to the temple’s most sacred ceremony, Gen might have a chance to balance duty with his growing feelings for him.

Until another former apprentice, Jorel, seizes control of the temple’s true power: Haliz Fundir, a tree-like being with the ability to meld people into one. Jorel only needs one last piece of knowledge to unlock its dark strength—

a secret only Gen holds.

In a desperate move, Gen melds with Simon to escape. Now sharing one body and mind, they must confront their pasts and survive on an island bent on their destruction.

With Jorel’s followers, the last remaining human resistance, a deranged scientist, and monstrous creatures hunting them, time is running out before Haliz Fundir awakens and consumes them all. Gen and Simon are their last hope, with nowhere to run except inside their own minds.

Published Spring 2024

Distant Worlds Anthology

Jennie’s short story, Black Angel, is featured as chapter one!

A story of lunar cartels, love squandered, and debts come to collect

In a dilapidated trailer park on Luna our narrator finds the former lover of Donner Mayberry, the moon’s most notorious drug cartel lord to ever rise from the craters.

As she weaves a story of their rise and her fall alongside the deadly drug Black Angel, it soon becomes clear that our narrator is there for more than just a story, and life, love, and debts all come to collect.

Heading off Ink & Quill Press’s first sci-fi anthology, Black Angel recieved rave reader reception in Jennie’s first published shirt story.

Published Spring 2025

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Upcoming Publications

Merged (Part II of the Melded Duology)

Coming Early Spring 2026

Too many truths have come to light. Haliz Fundir was never the benevolent blessing Mael sold her people. Jorel's promises of power against the north never came to be.

Simon isn't the Reid Del Tor wants.

However, in the wake of tragedy, loss, and the beginning of a much larger war, he's the Reid they've got. The humans blame him for putting them last to the kriest. The temple refuses to recognize a human as reid. Jorel's followers are scattered, but not forgotten, scrambling to become something far worse on the wake of their ruler's death.

In the North, the youngest living son of Sol feels the changes of the world squeezing around him. Too many hidden truths are emerging under his father's lies, and when a new friend and his beloved dogs come under threat, Lias is forced to step into the complicated political ring against the very man who killed his mother.

Filled by the blood of war, Haliz grows ever stronger, threatening everyone on the island. Time is against the Reid and prince to end a war and save their peoples, even if neither want the job at all.

Even when old enemies refuse to stay dead, and allies refuse to wake up.

The Ley Between Us

An illustrated romantasy novella Coming 2025

A witch escaped years of imprisonment at the hands of a king for a price. Now she wanders the woods outside the capital city, marked as a wild witch by the very magic that saved her life.

Lost without her cell, and with no home to return to, her days drift by on promises to leave… until Rorian, the youngest prince, finds her aiding an animal ensnared, and they become ensnared themselves.

A short forbidden romance between people living opposite lives, all while the king’s crusade against the witches threatens everything they’ve ever known.

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