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  • Bibliography:
    87 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2013
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Book List in Order: 87 titles

  • DoriaN A

    The Perfect Match â€" then the chemistry all goes wrong.Safe from infection behind the walls of the Oasis, and about to be married to the brilliantly inventive Dorian, Angeic knows nothing of the Outside.Then Dorian goes and spoils it all by cloning ...

  • Heartache High

    You can never leaveHow close have you come to finding yourself enrolled at Heartache High?Closer than you think, if you’ve ever been in love with someone who didn’t know you existed. Or someone who broke up with you, leaving you broken-hearted.At...

  • Heartache High: The Primer

    You can never leaveHeartache High’s Primer for Students, as written by Stephanie Johnson, Heartache High Permanent Student. Ever been in love with someone who didn’t even know you existed? Or someone who broke up with you? Congratulations; you’...

  • Wyrd Girl

    She’s in an OtherworldI’m the weird girl.You know; the one every kid in class avoids, just in case what I’ve got is catching.Not that I care.See, there are worlds other than this one.Worlds we pass on to when we die.Worlds, even, where we exist...

  • Heartache High: The Wakening

    You can never leaveIf you’ve ever been broken hearted by a hopeless love â€" then count yourself lucky you didn’t find yourself enrolled at Heartache High.Even the beautiful Gillian Hazlehurst finds herself there.Finds, too, that she can never re...

  • Miss Terry Charm, Merry Kris Mouse & The Silver Egg

    Which Witch can’t do Magic? Terry Charm comes from a long line of witches â€" so how come she can’t cast any spells?How is she ever going to take on the role of the Queendom’s Witch, especially when her hocus pocus is, well, bogus?Worse still, ...

  • Seecrets

    Maybe you’re lucky the quiet girl’s keeping quietThe ‘quiet girl’.The ‘serious girl’.The ‘Oh just ignore her’ girl.There’s always one girl in class like that, isn’t there?Maybe it’s you.Maybe it’s someone else.Maybe you’re g...

  • The Wicker Slippers

    Witch one will they choose?What would you do if you found an ancient pair of witch’s slippers in the old cottage you were staying at?Janet, who loves Lee (who loves Maxine), tries them on.Maxine, who loves Greg (who prefers Janet), tries them on.Th...

  • The Cull

    An infection must be curbed â€" even in a schoolIt starts off with just one; a hit and run.Next it’s a car crash, with no survivors. Then the school bus is completely obliterated on a level crossing.Then there’s a fire…Each time, it either invo...



  • The Rules. Book 1; The End

    There’s something magic inside us all â€" and it’s trying to get out!The rules of chance, even physical laws, are breaking down. The time of magic is returning.And Bethlehem Jones finds she’s sharing her body with Lynese, an unpredictable water...

  • Dragonsapien

    We thought dragons were extinct â€" now we’re the ones facing extinctionDragons didn’t go away â€" they just evolved.They look, act, and think like humans. So when Jake and the beautiful Celeste (Celly) fall in love, how is he supposed to know th...

  • The Boy In White Linen

    Visiting a troubled Jerusalem, schoolgirl Lillianne Pine (Lil) finds she’s increasingly drawn to Harry, a young British Army Captain, after meeting a mysterious boy in white linen. Stranger still is her sighting of a gorgeous unicorn, which passes ...

  • The Caught

    Odd-job boy Jack Leroyson, he just don’t get it.They’re saying his screen-goddess employer’s just gone and died from a drug overdose. So how come no one’s mentioning the early morning visits of all those White House staff?How come no one’s ...

  • Porcelain Princess

    Carey believes that the legendary Porcelain Princess is as real as she is.Believes that if she reads all the fairy tales and myths, she’ll find clues leading to the Porcelain Princess’s kingdom.Even so, she can’t believe it when she finds the P...

  • Freaking Freak

    If you were offered the chance to be totally irresistible, even to the most gorgeous boy you know, would you stop to think there might just be the tiniest bit of a catch?Well, I didn’t. And believe me, it wasn’t a tiny catch. It was the worst cat...

  • The Last Angel

    Everyone has a guardian angel: an angel who regularly offers you sound advice, and soothes you when you’re angry. Chrissy’s angel Jial, however, is more like a little sister to her.She’s lots of fun to have hanging around, to watch movies with:...

  • The Desire: Class of 666

    It seemed a great theme for a party; come as the most evil person you’d like to be.Unfortunately, there’s one guest who hasn’t been invited.And, just for the hell of it, she’s going to make all your desires come true....

  • Eve of the Serpent

    For a crust to keep her alive, Prytani will tell your future: for when she merges with her little vixen Tamesis, she can journey into the underworld.Her own world is one of towers on glass hills, ships who steer themselves, swords that sing, mermaids...

  • Died Blondes

    Huh, some sleepover â€" my two best friends dead, and their spirits moving in with me, into my body.Sure, the Rye Man made it look like an accident, but I know they were murdered.See, the Rye Man’s like the Slender Man, only real.Whaddya know, heâ€...



  • Lowlife

  • Queen of all the Knowing World

    How do you overthrow a queen who has ruled for thousands of years?Two girls, living a thousand years apart, face this dilemma. Each have their reasons to loathe the Queen. Each illegally develop their Knowing abilities. Yet the Queen Knows everything...

  • The Truth About Fairies

    Many tales warn us to beware the Fay Queen: yet when she steals-away Rouger, his friend Luna sets out to find her magical realm.A small key made of a mistletoe berry provides her first clue, a box containing all our fears another.Yet it’s the secre...

  • Elm of False Dreams

    When Mima’s brother is killed by the witch and were-lion Cerissa, she believes there is no hope for him until she briefly hears his cry for help in a magical horn. Before she can rescue him from Hades, however, she first has to find and confront Ce...

  • God of the 4th Sun

    Despite their many sacrifices, Tesetra’s people have been forsaken by their gods. Having accidentally come across a member of the supposedly legendary Snake People, Tesetra sets out to find where they live. At first she finds instead the survivors ...

  • Americarnie Trash

    The way the Americarnie tell it, we used to run this country we now tour with our cheap carnivals. Then again, we also claim we’re descended from angels! The truth lies somewhere in-between: in the darkness beyond the lights, a place of freaks and ...

  • A Guide for Young Wytches

    I meet a dream boy on holiday, accept his invite to his dream mountaintop castle; but when I get here, it’s a nightmare of invisible staff (apart from old, sour-faced Lisa) and gardens of either freezing white snow or sheer darkness. Oh, and magpie...

  • The Wendygo House

    As wendy houses go, Sis’s isn’t anything special. But all her friends have vanished and, last time I saw them, they were all heading towards that weird little house. Now it’s full of dolls, dolls with her missing friends’ names. And I’m sur...

  • Gorgesque

    Soon Andraetra will be a privileged Gorgesque: half her face exchanged with that of a hideous person, to share the burden and ensure she recognises the truth that she can never be wholly good. But her ‘intended’ Courundia abducts Andraetra, hopin...

  • An Incomparable Pearl

    To ensure an heir, the king raises his daughter as Prince Argaret â€" only for the older Princess Epistem and Queen Telete to murder the king and blame the prince. Exiled to lands impoverished by the king’s chivalric quest to restore the precious s...



  • Lady of the Wasteland

    ‘Who am I?’ Viviana wonders when â€" after seeing whales during the school swimming competition â€" a weird new boy causes her to suffer bizarre recollections of an alternative life of outlandish landscapes and experiences. And when her parents v...

  • We Three Queens

    It’s true that queens are a game’s most truly magical, powerful pieces.It’s a lie that only two queens lie before us.The old queen, of serpents and crows, is rumoured to have stolen the True CrossThe young queen, of hawks and wolves, may have s...

  • Cygnet Czarinas

    Sandy asks the Russian Princess the one question she’s not supposed to ask: Why do you sleep?For the young queen and her siblings are cursed to sleep endlessly, ruling only through the granting of magical swan feathers that eventually lead to an an...

  • April Queen, May Fool

    Not unnaturally, Crystine blames her mom for bringing her into this world. So who’s to blame when Crystine finds herself in a completely different world, one where she’s courageous, resourceful and, yes, bewitchingly beautiful too; even though sh...

  • Sick Teen

    It starts with one tattoo: the hare and the moon.You know â€" to go with my supposedly ‘wild’ nature?Then, I think, Wow, wouldn’t something like a serpent look even better?Thing is, I was naive; I just didn’t know why the ancients started tat...

  • Self-Assembled Girl

    Many people spend entire lives trying to work out why they’re here.Unfortunately, I know precisely why I’m here.See, I came with instructions.In fact, I came in a box.Trouble is, I’m faulty goods…...

  • Thrice Born

    Cybela dabbles with magic, calling down the Moon in the hope of bringing love into her life: but it is a time when the era of magic is coming to an end, when young girls like Cybela are hunted down as witches. A dying priestess hands Cybela a scroll,...

  • AmeriChristmas

    We all know we should appreciate the magic of Christmas.That we should enjoy it as a child enjoys it.But Jake’s a child and he doesn’t enjoy it.At least, not until he meets a thousand-year-old girl…...

  • Blood of Angels, Wings of Men

    Most of the girls in my cavalry troop aren’t yet seventeen; but none of us expects to reach eighteen.In my case, that might be for the best.I think I’m pregnant â€" and I think an angel might be the father....

  • Love Poison No. 13

    Born under the 13th sign, she dances as entrancingly as the serpent, he creates venomous potions.She becomes the citizens’ darling, he the elite’s secretive aid to wielding power.Her love is reserved for her art. His finest concoction poisons the...



  • The Vitch's Kat in Hollywoodland

    An animated catAn animated mouse.That’s how most people would describe how Ketz and I look.Yet when we moved from the Land of Vitches to America, we found ourselves involved in a new business called ‘the movies’. And so for all those wondering ...

  • Whatever Happened to Cinderella's Slipper?

    Ugly? Who the heck first started calling me ugly in that complete fairytale?I mean, relatively speaking, anyone’s ugly compared to some lucky girl gifted with a magical beauty!And all that magic is still lying there in that glass slipper she left b...

  • Patchwork Quest

    Mum’s gone missing.But I know where I have to go to find her.Because I’ve seen her; trapped amongst all the forests, stars, unicorns and dragons of my patchwork bedspread....

  • Palace of Lace

    She can’t be older than seven; and yet she’s calling the children of our lands together, telling us we must prevent our king’s coronation.An ancient mosaic has been uncovered, its patterns of whirling spheres containing prophecies of the coming...

  • The Wailing Ships

    The Sprig o’ Thyme no longer hunts whales.The captain’s enlisted his first girl, me, because he finds my singing enchanting.It seems it’s perfect for luring a new prey.Mermaids....

  • The 13th Month

    There’s a shop I’ve never seen before, selling only one thing: a pair of shoes, the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.They’re the correct size too - if a touch small.And the right price â€" for Jackie Onassis.But I’ve just got to have them. Bec...

  • The Bad Samaritan and The Gospel of The Twelve

    We were the other twelve; the women who followed the Teacher.He called on my mother, a Samaritan, to quench her thirst with the waters of life. And so my sisters went with him too.Is he who he says he is?I have yet to be persuaded.He promises many th...

  • The Silvered Mare

    Our Queen is dead. Our rebellion is over.The Emperor is hunting us down.The Emperor who shows no mercy.My mother feared I was too young to fight.My fear is that I am too young to save Aedan.Everywhere, a new Queen rules.Everywhere, I find the Queen o...

  • SpinDell

    Coming across a magically whirling spinning wheel in a wood’s clearing, Beith pricks herself upon a splinter; and instantly forgets why she is here.Wandering, lost, ever deeper into the valley, Beith’s efforts to remember are either helped or hin...

  • Swan Moon

    When Swan Moon’s master Monsieur Chapelet is murdered, a Japanese officer who’d promised to take her away from Saigon is arrested. Unlike Swan Moon, Chapelet’s young heir Alan initially accepts the French Sûreté’s findings; but Japan’s su...



  • The Unicorndoll

    A unicorndoll is a means to finding a real unicorn.Because yes, unicorns exist.And they’re as graceful and pure as the myths suggest.But to find one, you have to unweave the truth from the lies.And a princess, even a maiden princess like me ...

  • Lesser Nefertiti

    Why does the freshly excavated Egyptian tomb have a second, sealed door? And why has it been desecrated, and the mummy’s head severed?As Clary illustrates the recovered artefacts, she forges a deepening connection with a young girl who’d ...

  • My Shrieking Skin

    The way some older guys check you out â€" well, doesn’t it just creep you out?It does me.Makes my skin crawl.Dogs. Snakes. Wolves.That’s all these guys are, you ask me.Sure, there has to be at least one good guy out there.But finding him â€" well...

  • Font of All Lies

    Dragons are laying waste to the lands of Culldae’s father, Halga.Even when they are killed, the springs and streams dry up, and crops suffer.Rumours of where the blame lies flourish, however.Halga had once promised the dragons a gift of rings f...

  • Stone in Love

    In early Hollywood, its most sordid stories were played out off screen. And if anyone ended up in court…well, they were actors. Actors the studios had invested huge sums in. Sums they didn’t want wasted. Even when one of their own is murd...

  • The Bared Heart

    So I pick up a toy jewel in a yard sale; and suddenly, it’s taking over my whole life!Like, suddenly, I’m looking way too deeply into all those things I thought I’d hidden away deep in my heart.Worse still, it’s like everyone&...

  • An Angelic Alphabet

    It’s rumoured around court that charms ensure the ageless beauty of alchemist’s daughter Esemiell. Her father’s conversations with angels have opened up a world lying beyond a magic mirror’s dark surface. A world ruled by a qu...

  • Forewarnings and Three Grapes

    The flight of birds, the entrails of animals, the strike of lightning; each can divulge the future. Each, too, confirms that Martis must accept the arrogant Nerie’s marriage proposal. The Delphic Oracle will make a final pronouncement, but on t...

  • Death of a Fairytale Princess

    Is it me, or is everyone in the entire kingdom telling the story of The Goose Girl completely wrong? Princesses don’t die in fairytales, do they?Or, as everyone claims, am I simply looking for a happier ending simply because I’m a goose g...

  • The Incurable Caress

    As a Wé Nun, Gytha has been raised to aid the transformation of warriors into wolves, bears and boars.She lingers on the borders between the realms, ensuring the darkness doesn’t completely overwhelm the battling men.But the Caress is fore...

  • Nu's Ark

    To bring the war against the Northern Kingdom to an end, Pharaoh’s daughter Herit is to be married to the Pharaoh of the South.And yet, when a boat crewed by animal-headed men is sent to take her up the Nile, her father insists that the untrust...

  • The Maid's Caul

    When the same girl appears in every dream, Zoa sets out to find her.Three times he thinks he’s found her, only for each girl to insist he must be seeking her far more beautiful sister.At the palace of the girls’ mother, the queen has been...

  • A Disgraced Angel

    Am I an angel?Certainly, the Novices and Sisters of the Nuns of the Clouds don’t think so.Where are my wings? they wonder.Can an angel lie so close to death?What is an angel anyway?How can I persuade them that I’ve simply lost my grace?An...

  • Wake Me Up When It's Christmas

  • Aurora Rising

    She’s Sleeping, after pricking herself while spinning: yet she’s far, far more than just a Beauty.The fairytales have it all wrong.Well, perhaps not all wrong…There are hints within them of the original histories, of the truth.Let&#...

  • God's Toybox

    A wheel that spins and spins.It’s the invention of Rulru’s father; but as he’s only a poor toymaker, is it really nothing more than a trick as everyone says?What powers the wheel?Is it magic?Or witchcraft?...

  • Petals

    Round the back of the exclusive Carisian nightclub, you can briefly be as gorgeous as any model.Inside, see, they have a Petals Portal, bathing everyone in an aura enhancing how you look to Movie Star levels. Obviously, the Petals Glamour seeping out...

  • The Veil

    As one of the Sisters of the Fallen, Polyboia has pledged to sacrifice her life and regiment in the battle to quell the rebellion led by the New Siegfried. Disgraced when she’s the sole survivor of a humiliating defeat, she must atone by seekin...

  • Ripppples

    Four rings of a prophesised seven have already been created, granting each wearer power over water, earth, air, or fire. As Orthia’s realm is besieged, she realises she must seek the fifth ring. But the last of the smiths famous for creating th...

  • The Golden Elk

    Sieidi is warned, naturally, that she should never go into the dark forest.Yet she’s drawn there one day by a girl playing a drum, enthralled by the most minute dancers she’s ever seen.One who looks surprisingly like herself…The gir...

  • Mirror Merror

    Who is the fairest in the land?Not the one who uses such a fabulous mirror to ask such a vain question.Mirari is about to realise just how powerful such a mirror is.Who’s Mirari?You’ve met her countless times. Only you’ve probably n...

  • Matchbox Fairy

    Victorian London offers a hard life for an impoverished match-seller like Ruby.But is her luck about to change when she discovers a broken-winged fairy trapped inside a discarded matchbox?Surely she’s entitled to three wishes?Only it seems wish...

  • The Snow Nymph

    Khione is a snow nymph: or so the showman Glaukos claims, as he displays her amongst his mermaids, fallen angels, and Minotaur’s brethren.As for Khione – well, she can’t remember if it’s true or not.But she abruptly knows that...

  • The WatcHousE

    The WatcHousE lies on the borders of two realms: that of our world, and that of faerie.The Wee Woman lives there, granting the gift of prophesy to all those who own the watch she’s made her home.When Amry finds the watch buried in the ground, s...

  • Interlace

    The Prioress possesses a mirror that reveals far more about a person than they’re prepared to admit.The Lady of the Forbidden Tower traces every action in the lace she makes, its threads drawn from the trails of all-seeing butterflies.And the e...

  • Winter Queen

    How does the Winter Queen make jewels of water, and delicately pattern windows with her silvery threads?Ame’s father goes off in search of the secret – and then her mother follows too when he fails to return.Apprenticed to Mistress Orfan,...

  • Sweet Vale of Aricia

    Alesis can sculpt wood or rock into anything from nature – unless it’s a man or woman, when it lacks sensuousness.Yet she’s chosen to preserve an aging actress’s fading beauty in stone, finding herself in a valley where deer r...

  • Queen of Cards

    As soon as Holly’s brother Hal finally starts winning at cards, he’s murdered.Worse still, he leaves her little more from the family fortune than an ancient pack of cards he claims brought him luck.As lady-in-waiting to the queen, with hi...

  • Maiden of the No World

    Each time Queen Rhiannwn bears a child, it’s stolen away by an elusive beast.Is it because the king once spent a year ruling the No World? Or because Rhiannwn herself is from there?It’s only when she rides out alone into the wilds that a ...

  • Not of Earth

    Melodien isn’t her real name; because no one knows her real name, not even Melodien.She was washed up on the island’s beach, as if from a shipwreck – even though there’d been no shipwreck for months.And anyone who saw her had ...

  • Idoll

    Leave a lock of hair with the dressmaker and she’ll produce a doll, a perfect miniature of you, wearing a copy of the dress that will make you look like a queen.Servants like Ele, however, can only dream of such dresses.Then one morning Ele wak...

  • Maker of Darkness

    The queen delivers her child far too early.The ladies in waiting declare the poor boy malformed.The king disowns him, accusing the queen of being a witch.The lady who waits unseen in the darkness welcomes the prince as one of her own....

  • Ice Tzarina

    Thousands of years ago, the Ice Tzarina was about to conquer the whole earth – until magical charms forced her back to the far north. Now winters are growing increasingly cold once more. Pira fears for her friends: a rabbit, Philly; a goose, Fr...

  • Gates of the Horned Goddess

    When Lazier’s horse returns to court without him, everyone fears the worse.He’d set off to find the great walls rumoured to be holding back a race of giants from overrunning their land.He’s sent back a small white fox to Inari, warn...

  • The Fall of Ys

    Ys rules a city named after her. A city that takes after her too, in its debauchery and callousness.Built on rocks stretching far out to sea, with towering walls keeping even the fiercest storms at bay, the city prides itself on being invincible.Unti...

  • The Kpop Princess Who Was Thrown Away

    Once the head of popular Kpop girl group FirstBloom, Pari had vanished after a series of scandals.Now she’s back, as her deceitful manager Minjun is dying: and his doctors have weirdly claimed his life depends upon her retrieving the mythical F...

  • The Soulless Daughter

    If you ever saw Keyri joyously caring for her parents’ farm animals, you’d think she was the most kind-hearted soul you’d ever come across. And yet when the villagers saw she had neither heart nor soul, but was made of wood, linen, ...

  • The Fairy Paintbox or Why Can't We See Fairies Anymore?

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    In a dark room, Missy’s master Isaac has captured a section of the rainbow.He claims it contains every colour there is.Missy is busy mixing paints, hoping to capture every tint.But now she’s seen a boy that no one else seems to see.And pa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jon Jacks has published 87 books.

Jon Jacks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Soulless Daughter, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Jon Jacks, DoriaN A, was published in May 2013.

No. Jon Jacks does not write books in series.
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