Jeffe Kennedy

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Jeffe Kennedy™ is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has won the prestigious RITA® Award from Romance Writers of America (RWA), has been a finalist twice, been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. She has 64 published fiction titles and is the current President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Her award-winning fantasy romance trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms hit the shelves starting in May 2014. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, was nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA Award. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, was a 2017 PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. The final novel in the series, The Fate of the Tala, released in February 2020, along with a short novel epilogue, The Lost Princess Returns. A high fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Dasnaria, taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world came out from Rebel Base books in 2018. The novella, The Dragons of Summer, first appearing in the Seasons of Sorcery anthology, finaled for the 2019 RITA Award.

Kennedy also introduced a new fantasy romance series, Sorcerous Moons, which includes Lonen’s War, Oria’s Gambit, The Tides of Bàra, The Forests of Dru, Oria’s Enchantment, and Lonen’s Reign. And she released a contemporary erotic romance series, Missed Connections, which started with Last Dance and continues in With a Prince and Since Last Christmas.

In September 2019, St. Martins Press released The Orchid Throne, the first book in a new romantic fantasy series, The Forgotten Empires. The sequel, The Fiery Crown, followed in May 2020, and culminated in The Promised Queen in May 2021.

Most recently, Kennedy has released two new series. The epic fantasy romances in the Heirs of Magic series include The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon, The Golden Gryphon and the Bear Prince, The Sorceress Queen and the Pirate Rogue, The Dragon’s Daughter and the Winter Mage, The Storm Princess and the Raven King, and The Long Night of the Radiant Star. The Bonds of Magic and Renegades of Magic series are dark fantasy romances and include the completed first trilogy, Dark Wizard, Bright Familiar, and Grey Magic. The overall series arc continues with Shadow Wizard and the upcoming Rogue Familiar.

Kennedy’s other works include a number of fiction series: the fantasy romance novels of A Covenant of Thorns; the contemporary BDSM novellas of the Facets of Passion; an erotic contemporary serial novel, Master of the Opera; and the erotic romance trilogy, Falling Under, which includes Going Under, Under His Touch and Under Contract.

Jeffe Kennedy™ lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.

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Series/Related Titles

Bond of Magic

  1. Dark Wizard
  2. Bright Familiar
  3. Grey Magic
3.5 Familiar Winter Magic

Chronicles of Dasnaria

  1. Prisoner Of The Crown
  2. Exile Of The Seas
  3. Warrior Of The World

Covenant of Thorns

  1. Rogue's Pawn
  2. Rogue's Possession
  3. Rogue's Paradise

Facets of Passion

  1. Sapphire
  2. Platinum
  3. Ruby
  4. Season Of Seduction
  5. Five Golden Rings

Falling Under

  1. Going Under
  2. Under His Touch
  3. Under Contract

Forgotten Empires

  1. The Orchid Throne
  2. The Fiery Crown
  3. the Promised Queen

Heirs of Magic

  1. The Golden Gryphon And The Bear Prince
  2. The Sorceress Queen And the Pirate Rogue
  3. The Dragon's Daughter And The Winter Mage
  4. The Storm Princess And The Raven King
4.5 The Long Night Of The Radiant Star

Master of the Opera

  1. Passionate Overture
  2. Ghost Aria
  3. Phantom Serenade
  4. Dark Interlude
  5. A Haunting Duet
  6. Crescendo

Missed Connections

  1. Lasr Dance

Renegades of Magic

  1. Shadow Warrior
  2. Rogue Familiar
  3. Twisted Magic

Sorcerous Moons

  1. Lonen's War
  2. Oria's Gambit
  3. The Tides Of Bara
  4. The Forests Of Dru

The Twelve Kingdoms

1. The Mark Of The Tala
2. The Tears Of The Rose
2.5 Negotiation
3. The Talon Of The Hawk

Uncharted Realms

1. The Pages Of The Mind
2. The Edge Of The Blade
3. The Shift Of The Tide
4. The Arrows Of The Heart
4.5 The Dragons Of Summer
5. The Fate Of The Tala
5.5 The Lost Princess Returns

Warriors of Magic

  1. Reluctant Wizard

Awards

Recognitions

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