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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2012
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About the Author

Born Julia A. Beck on 1965 in Mountainview, California, but she grew up in Austin, Texas. Her father was an aeronautical engineer, and her mother worked as a secretary. After her graduation she worked as a lawyer during years. But when in 1995, she and her husband, Donald Kenner, moved from Los Angeles back to her hometown of Austin, she decided writing. She was published in 2000, and she quit the practice of law to write full time in 2004. She was the winner of Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Contemporary Paranormal of 2001, the winner of the Reviewers International Organization's award for best romantic suspense of 2004 and best paranormal of 2005, and the winner of the National Readers' Choice Award for best mainstream book of 2005, and was also the two-time RITA finalist

When she's not writing, she loves spending time with her husband, her two daughters, her cats and with the neighborhood cats who tend to hang around her house.

Full Series List in Order

Shadow Keepers

1 - When Blood Calls (Sep-2010)
2 - When Pleasure Rules (Sep-2010)
3 - When Wicked Craves (Nov-2010)
3.5 - Midnight (Nov-2011)
4 - When Passion Lies (Jun-2012)
5 - When Darkness Hungers (Jul-2012)
6 - When Temptation Burns (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • Attorney Sara Constantine is thrilled with her promotion--until she finds out that she must now prosecute vampires and werewolves. The first defendant she'll be trying to put away? Lucius Dragos, the sexy stranger with whom she recently shared an exp...



  • Seven innocents have been brutally murdered on the streets of Los Angeles, yet the Shadow Alliance has no suspects and no leads. And as more bodies are discovered, the age-old feud between the vampires and werewolves threatens to explode and turn the...



  • Petra Lang is cursed never to love. One touch of her skin unleashes the vilest demons. Sentenced to death by the Shadow authorities, who fear she'll turn her curse against them, Petra is rescued by vampire advocate Nicholas Montegue. As their bodies ...



  • Enter the thrilling, seductive world of the Shadow Keepers, which Lara Adrian calls “exciting paranormal romance with a sharp, suspenseful edge.” Carissa de Soranzo will not rest until her kidnapped younger brother has been freed from the nob...



  • Tiberius is a vampire dedicated to protecting his kind -- and the secrets of the shadow world. Now, as his quest to become head of the Alliance draws within reach, a shattering new threat puts him to the ultimate test. It's a nightmare of grim propor...



  • FBI agent Alexis Martin knows that vampires exist -- because one of them killed her sister. Assigned to investigate a series of bizarre homicides in Los Angeles, Alexis believes the murders are the work of rogue vampires -- perhaps even the monster r...



  • Half human, half daemon, Ryan Doyle is a driving force for justice. As an agent for the Preternatural Enforcement Coalition, he’s investigating murders linked to a Los Angeles fringe group bent on exposing the shadow world to humanity. He is a mast...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.K. Beck has published 7 books.

J.K. Beck does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, When Temptation Burns, was published in August 2012.

The first book by J.K. Beck, When Blood Calls, was published in September 2010.

Yes. J.K. Beck has 1 series.