Melanie
         Jackson
    Failte,   PO Box 574 Sonora, CA 95370-0574 Contact Me

    Welcome to my cyber home. If you have a taste for eras long since past, for highland mists, and romance on the moors, then come visit my library.

    My husband, cat and I live on a mountain in California with a herd of man-eating deer and ferocious slingshot-toting squirrels. When I am not busy writing novels of romance and mystery, I enjoy composing bad poetry, getting lost in the gargoyle-infested forest, and hunting for dragons' gold in our many local caverns.

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    Writ On Water

    What do you do when you witness a murder? Most of us call the police and show them the body. But Chloe doesn't have a body. What she has is The Sight. Until she can figure out if what has happened -- or will be happening -- is real, she is stuck on a Virginia plantation with an efficient filler who is now very interested in her.

    Coming Spring 2007.

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    Divine Madness is in the stormy air. Ninon d'Lenclos has no choice except to join forces with the son of an Aztec death god who will help her defeat her enemy, the Comte St. Germain.


    Coming September 2006.

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    He knows if you've been naughty. He knows if you've been nice. What The Saint (aka Kris Kringle, Santa Claus, The Green Man) doesn't know is where Adora Navarra fits into his plans to take back Christmas from the goblin hordes.


    Coming March 2006.

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    Dr. Nicholas Anthony has never liked the holidays, but this year might be the exception. Stranded in the Sierras with a family of half-lutin runaways he's about to have the most unusual Christmas of his life.

    Romantic Times: 4+ Stars

    Publishers Weekly: Fans of ghouls, goblins and wizards need look no further than Jackson's latest Wildside romance, ...

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    It's Lord Byron and his biographer vs. Dr. Frankenstein and an army of zombies -- who will win? It's Christmas in New York but this year, it isn't Santa whose visiting the poet's penthouse apartment.

    Romantic Times: 4+ Stars (Top Pick)

    Jackson pens a sumptuous modern gothic in which the monsters are real and creates an equally delectable portrait of Byron -- Nina C. Davis, Booklist

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    A new danger has entered the world and it affects humans and goblins alike. The race is on to see which will gain control on this ultimate weapon, or if the fey will get there in time to stop the madness. If they are to triumph Abrial Nightdemon will need the help of Nyssa Laszlo, a woman with a dark and deadly secret.
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    Romantic Times: 4 stars

    "Swashbuckling action and daring escapes abound in this curious combination of dark fantasy and romance" -- Booklist by Diana Tixier Herald

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    The goblins have taken New Orleans under the command of a special king. Undercover reporter, Lyris Damsel, and fey spy, Romeo Hart, aren't facing just a goblin king -- but also a master vampire.

    Romatic Times 4+ stars -- Top pick of March

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    They're back. Sin City was the second metropolis to fall under Lutin control. But help is on the way. The wizard, Thomas Marrowbone, and the Selkie, Cyra Delphin, have infiltrated the goblin horde and are ready to risk both life and love to save California.

    Romatic Times 4+ stars -- Top pick of November

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    Welcome to Motor City. Detroit has been taken over by goblins and become a city-state run by an evil warlord who has ambitions of world domination. Police have failed to apprehend him. Left to thwart him and save the human world are two faerie agents provocateur; the powerful death fey, Jack Frost, and the elusive siren fey, Io Cyphre.

    Publishers Weekly: "Traveler delivers sizzling romance and ghoulish thrills at a breathtaking clip."

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    Humans had made their peace after the war to end all wars
    Yet two great sea-kingdoms were about to go to battle
    Only love could save them from destruction

    Congradulations to the winner of the "Selkie Contest":
          Shaunna, Shirley, and Marilyn

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    Fate took Domitien's wife and unborn child causing him to make a vow that he would never love again. Life after life, Dom was sent back to earth to complete his life cycle. For a thousand years he did not love... Now The Great One is giving him one last chance to get it right. Escorted by Death, Domitien will meet his destiny. Dominion, available from Lovespell in August of 2002.

    Congradulation to the winners of the "Design Your Own Perfume Contest":
          Carolee, Cathie, Earlene, and Jan.

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    It should have been simple-- if scandalous-- for two lovers to run-away to Gretna Green. All they needed was to get on the highroad and head north. However, Fate had other plans. Belle and Stephan were going to Scotland via the less-traveled route, which included enraged former-fiancés, highwaymen, horse thieves, kidnappers, cattle reavers, homicidal innkeepers, and one stubborn Bow Street runner. Neither suspected the road to love could be so rough.

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    For centuries Bodmin Moor has been the home to great mysteries. King Arthur, the Giants of Cornwall, and the Beast. Now it is the home of two star-crossed lovers who must outwit bloodthristy smugglers in an attempt to save the Jacobite cause.

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    Tafaline had heard the tale of the massacre and of the brave piper who had given his life in defense of Duntrune castle. But few saw his face in their sleep, nor heard his sweet voice. He had been slain so long ago, how was it possible that he now haunted her dreams? Were the fairy tales true that claimed a woman of MacLeod blood could save a man from death? Taffy knew there was naught to do but go to him... across time.

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    Alone and barely ahead of the storm, Manon flees Scotland. The insurrection has failed, Bonnie Charlie’s rebellion has been put down. Innocent of treason, yet sought by agents of the king, the Scots beauty dons the guise of a man and rides to London— and into the hands of the sexiest Sassanach she’s ever seen. She has no time to dally with an English baronet. But she fears that despite her precautions, this rake may uncover her as no man but Manon.

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    During the second Jacobite Rebellion when Scotland's clans system was under attack by both religious and political foes, in the death of one great culture and the birth of a new Scotland, Lona MacLean finds her soul mate in the enemy, Niall MacKay. They build a new life that allows for both love of an enemy and loyalty to one's clan.


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