Indie author

Jeljenna

I write urban fantasy about grief, love, and identity: what happens when people decide who you are before you've worked it out yourself. The Bloodspark Series mixes the mundane with the extraordinary on purpose, because tenderness and catastrophe rarely wait for a good moment.

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about

I write emotionally damaged people trying stay themselves while horror, trauma, and who they love slowly reshape them into something unrecognizable.Off the page, I'm the friend with a plan and a backup plan, happily married to someone who doesn't read or write at all and still helps me solve plot problems, which I've decided is either love or dark magic.
Good coffee gets me through most days; pumpkin spice lattes get me through the rest, no shame.

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Arcing Spark

Remember being eighteen? Remember being convinced everyone else knew who they were?Kal is living it: broke, directionless, grieving her parents, and one minor inconvenience away from telling everyone what she thinks of them.Then she meets Ida: rich, bright-haired, terrible with boundaries, fond of abandoned buildings. Ida looks at Kal, who has spent her whole life feeling invisible, as if she already knows exactly who she is. Which is more than Kal can say for herself.One night there's a street fight, lightning arcing across a construction site, and a light between Kal's hands and Ida's that nobody, Kal least of all, can explain.Kal is definitely not the chosen one.
Unfortunately, the lightning, the blood magic and everyone she meets seem to disagree.
The truth about her parents' deaths won't let her walk away, and Ida has an answer for everything Kal doesn't know about herself. Which would be more comforting if Ida weren't keeping secrets of her own.Being special, it turns out, isn't something you are. It's something people do to you.Arcing Spark is for readers who:like queer fantasy with more emotional baggage than sword fights
think "secret magical society" sounds suspiciously like "cult with paperwork"
would rather have an honest ending than a tidy one
For fans of Leigh Bardugo and V.E. Schwab who want their urban fantasy darker, queerer, and unwilling to settle for easy heroes.

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Biting Fire

Freshly heartbroken by a break-up, Ash is not in the mood to stumble over a dead body. But now she's here and can't help but start investigating when the police put it off as an accident.
And then there's those wildflife cameras picking up local frat boys in definitely-not-human, more wolf-like form, running amok.
Ash soon discovers not just werewolves living secretly among us.

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2025
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ARCING SPARK
Bloodsparks #1
RELEASED
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2026
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BLOODSPARKS
Behind the scenes
Welcome to the city

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2027
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BITING FIRE
Bloodsparks #2
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2028
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CHASING SMOKE
Bloodspark #3
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BLOODSPARKS
The world gets bigger
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2029
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DIMMING EMBERS
Bloodsparks #4
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2030
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ECHOING ASH
Bloodsparks #5
SERIES FINALE
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Something new is already taking shape.

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