J.S. Frankel

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  • Bibliography:
    75 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Another Quiet Little Place

1 - Just Another Quiet Little Town (Feb-2016)
2 - Just Another Quiet Little City (Nov-2016)
3 - Just Another Quiet Little State (Dec-2017)

Catnip

1 - Catnip (Oct-2014)
2 - Rise of the Transgenics (Apr-2015)
3 - Revolution (Sep-2015)
4 - Separation (May-2016)
5 - Reunion (Sep-2016)

Lindsay and Jo

1 - Lindsay Versus the Marauders (Apr-2014)
2 - Lindsay, Jo and the Tree of Forever (Sep-2014)
3 - Lindsay, Jo and the Well of Nevermore (Jun-2015)

Titans of Ardana

1 - The Titans of Ardana (Feb-2017)
2 - Battlefield (Apr-2017)
3 - Interstellar (Nov-2017)

The Undernet

1 - The Undernet (Jul-2017)
2 - Azrael (Apr-2018)

Book List in Order: 75 titles

  • The Tower

    Bill Lampkin doesn't have much of a life. He's in the hospital, abandoned by his father and decides to take a walk one night to escape the grim confines of his existence. During that nighttime stroll, he literally finds himself in another world. And ...

  • Demi-World

  • Death Bytes

  • Twisted

    Highschoolers Charlie Matthews, Martin Anderson, whose parents adopted Charlie, and Sharon Collins win a contest to play an interactive medieval game as the avatars of their favorite characters. Their mission: fight off the monsters, storm the castle...

  • Lindsay Versus the Marauders

    Lindsay and Jo - 1

  • Lindsay, Jo and the Tree of Forever

    Lindsay and Jo - 2

    In this sequel to Lindsay Versus the Marauders, Lindsay Fleming returns to her humdrum life on Earth, still reeling from falling in love with Jo, a young woman who hails from the distant planet of Carinna. Lindsay's life does not stay idle for too lo...

  • Catnip

    Catnip - 1

  • Rise of the Transgenics

    Catnip - 2

    ”I told you, don’t call me Miss Kitty.” Harry Goldman, young genius, DNA researcher and still a nerd, is back, and this time he’s working for the law. At the end of Catnip, his girlfriend, Anastasia, devolved into a cat. He manages to bring h...

  • Star Maps



  • Lindsay, Jo and the Well of Nevermore

    Lindsay and Jo - 3

    Lindsay Fleming of Tacoma, Washington, has married Jo of Carinna, a world set in a distant galaxy, and the couple is attempting to carve out a life for themselves on Jo's planet. However, nesting will have to wait. Frala, the leader of the Carinnian ...

  • Mr. Taxi

  • What She Saw

    Megan Collier, and M.E, with the Syracuse Medical Examiner's Office is called in to perform an autopsy on a victim whose heart has been removed in a mysterious and unusual fashion. The Chief of Police doesn't believe her explanation, and bucking head...

  • Revolution

    Catnip - 3

    Harry Goldman is back once more, and this time he’s living the domestic life up in the Catskill Mountains with Anastasia, his transgenic girlfriend. At the end of Catnip 2: Rise of the Transgenics, he went through the same process as Anastasia did....

  • Picture (Im)perfect

    Nolan Goodman, star swimmer for Portland High, meets Mia Swarva at a swim meet and thinks he’s found his perfect girlfriend. They start dating, things are going well...and then he finds out that Mia was born Mark, and his concept of what constitute...

  • Just Another Quiet Little Town

    Another Quiet Little Place - 1

    City dweller Gabe Common, seventeen and a high school dropout, has just moved with his mother to Chumsville, South Dakota, a speck in the eye of humanity. With a population of around three hundred people, Gabe is resigned to spending his summer study...

  • The Menagerie

    Taking care of a pet is one thing, but when orphaned teenager Karen Fox is kidnapped to service an interstellar zoo, she gets more than she bargained for.We do this for they bring us happiness.We do this because they have no defense, nowhere else to ...

  • Beginnings

    Paul Wiseman, orphan and runaway, was looking for a family. He found one -- and got a little more than he bargained for in the process.Being an orphan is no fun. Having no friends isn't much fun, either. When Paul Wiseman, seventeen, runs away from a...

  • The Nightmare Crew

    Paul Wiseman, orphan and runaway, was looking for a family. He found one-and got a little more than he bargained for in the process. Being an orphan is no fun. Having no friends isn't much fun, either. When Paul Wiseman, seventeen, runs away from an ...

  • Separation

    Catnip - 4

    Harry and Anastasia are back, this time married and attempting to fit into society. When another transgenic emerges -- a mole-man named Leonardo -- he tells them an old friend, Istvan, a pig-man, long thought dead, is still alive. Doing the right thi...



  • Law and Order

    Book 2 in The Nightmare Crew series

    The Nightmare Crew is on the hunt for their evil genius creator, but they find trouble that could spell the end of them all.

    Paul Wiseman and his crew return to battle their greatest opponents yet --...

  • Integration

    Facing off against an old enemy isn't without repercussions. Paul and the Nightmare Crew take on not only their most dangerous adversary but also the establishment.Paul Wiseman and the rest of the Nightmare Crew attempt to fit into society as best th...

  • Reunion

    Catnip - 5

  • Just Another Quiet Little City

    Another Quiet Little Place - 2

  • The Titans of Ardana

    Titans of Ardana - 1

  • Battlefield

    Titans of Ardana - 2

    Martin Calder and his girlfriend, Dana -- no last name given -- are back. Possessing superpowers, Martin joins up with Dana to fight crime throughout their adopted city of Baltimore. Fighting crime on Earth is easy, but when an old enemy from Dana’...

  • Wink

    Imagine fading out from a world you know and fading into a world you don’t. That’s what happens to teen Virgil West, a resident of planet Earth who is soon about to become a resident of…somewhere else.

    Once he does fade out, to the con...

  • The Undernet

    The Undernet - 1

  • Interstellar

    Titans of Ardana - 3

    Martin Calder and his girlfriend Dana -- no last name given -- are back. Their powers are now known to the general public, and their wish is to help out those who need it.However, those in the law enforcement world aren’t so accepting. Reduced to s...

  • Just Another Quiet Little State

    Another Quiet Little Place - 3

    Teenager Gabe Common and his girlfriend, Millie Themmes, have moved back to Chumsville, the place where the magic that changed them started. Although they attempt to move on with their lives, some forces in the world will not let them.For one, the am...



  • Master Fantastic

    High school graduate Paul Coleman’s life is anything but ordinary. It has been only a few months since he, Myrna Trillian, his girlfriend, and her father, Montague, an Elementalist/magician, destroyed a demon named Hekla that wanted Myrna for a pur...

  • The Return of Master Fantastic

    High school graduate Paul Coleman’s life is anything but ordinary. It has been only a few months since he, Myrna Trillian, his girlfriend, and her father, Montague, an Elementalist/magician, destroyed a demon named Hekla that wanted Myrna for a pur...

  • The Unlikeliest Candidate

    Harry Cannel, thirty-four, bound to a desk job and staring into the abyss of a failed marriage, suddenly finds his life changed after allegedly rescuing passengers from a doomed flight. However, he didn’t do it alone. He had help from beyond -- as ...

  • Outcasts

  • Ether

    Teenager Sam Timmins, school outcast and total nerd, is saved one day from getting run over by the wind. Only it isn’t the wind that saves him, but a mysterious wind-sprite named Esther. The result of a botched lab experiment, Esther and her mother...

  • Azrael

    The Undernet - 2

    Milt Edwards, survivor of an incident that almost took his life six months previously, is back. He and his girlfriend, Roberta (Robbie) Jones, both suffer from PTSD as a result of their ordeal, and they attend counseling sessions in order to help the...

  • The Incredible Aunty Awesomesauce

    Sam Aushumness, sixteen, orphan and high school outcast, meets his long-lost aunt at his parents’ funeral -- or the woman he thinks is his aunt. It turns out that she isn’t his aunt, isn’t from around here, and isn’t even from this galaxy.It ...

  • The Auctioneer

    Matthew Carter, eighteen and orphaned recently due to the death of his father, continues on the family tradition of auctioneering. It is not his chosen profession, but one that is thrust upon him by circumstance. Offered a chance to make some money b...

  • Fight Like A Woman

    Meet Kyle Sorton, teen, orphan, living a life of no purpose on a space station. Occupation: janitor. Future prospects: none. His only dream is to be someone. Anyone will do.

    Wish granted-sort of. An accident aboard his space station forces h...

  • Cyber Sprite

    Jake Cullen, a disabled teen novelist, is contacted from the great cyber beyond by a person who calls herself Miranda.It turns out that Miranda isn’t a hacker, but an AI program, a free-roaming, independent program that can go anywhere and do anyth...



  • What The Gods Allow

    Medusa, the Gorgon, is free -- temporarily. Penned up in Tartarus, the gods -- Zeus and Hera -- show her mercy. Medusa is given two weeks in which to track down their wayward daughter, Eris. Transformed into a beautiful young woman, Medusa is given o...

  • The Next Phase Outcasts 2

    Mitch Kessler, gargoyle, is back, along with his girlfriend, Callie, a former gender shifter, his best friend, Joe Chambers, a spinning top, and Neil, their rock-man sometime ally. Mitch and Joe help the police force of Independence, Oregon, fight cr...

  • The Next Phase

  • Randor's Moon

    Randor Delphin, shy teen prodigy, bio-scientist, and total nerd, lives a lonely, orphaned life on the planet of Malloran, a colony of the now-dead Earth. Malloran has been at war with the neighboring world of Falanar, a warrior planet, but their diff...

  • The Smalls

    Greg Allenby, almost seventeen, is in line to inherit his family’s cheese-making business. He wants nothing to do with it. Bored with his life in Ames, Iowa, he thinks of nothing else except getting out of his hometown and going somewhere with his ...

  • Stand-In

    Bill Grissom, seventeen, doesn’t have long to live, and when he’s given a second chance as a substitute for his counterpart in a parallel universe, he jumps at the chance to become the Golden Guardsman.Things go well at first. Along with Veil -- ...

  • The Associate

    Courage counts for everything.Nate Holliday is your average teen, living a fairly ordinary life in Portland, Oregon. Born without a right hand, he copes with his disability the best that he can, although he still feels like an outsider.His fairly ord...

  • The Sindicate

    Nate Holliday and his girlfriend, Melanie Sarkosian, are back. This time, they're fighting crime across the great state of Portland. While earthly law and order is Nate's main focus—that, and graduating high school—he is soon contacted by...

  • Apocalyptia

    Ed Sawyer, seventeen, is one of those ignored types at his school. A nerd hopelessly obsessed with all things cinematic, he lives for his next flick. He's matched by Linda Usher, a classmate who is also into movies, as well as computer coding and hac...

  • The Key Masters of Telemma

    Bill Newell and Carla Meadows, both seventeen and both dying, live out their final days in a palliative care center in Portland, Oregon. Bill has no hope of recovering, but the appearance of a strange key on his bed one day intrigues him. Carla recei...



  • Dating Mara Lontez

    For Nelson Benjamin, former juvenile offender, seeing Mara Lontez, an alien come to Earth in a role to do good, in action, is one thing. Meeting her is another, and running from the law, well, that's a different story altogether.Nelson Benjamin, eigh...

  • The Hundredth Floor

    Kyle Toombs, seventeen, is about to walk the race of his life. Suffering from the mental and physical aftereffects of a terrible accident that almost took his life, bullied at school, he enters a contest in order to show that he's capable of doing th...

  • Iris Incredible

    Vicar-Vic-Farbstein, seventeen, resident of Eugene, Oregon, an average high school student in every way, happens upon an alien who has come to Earth in search of warriors to defend her world. With a long, unpronounceable name, he calls her Iris, with...

  • Edward Eternal

    For Edward T. Scupper, life has been one long, lonely road. Born in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, for reasons unknown, he stops aging at eighteen. At first, it's exciting to live through the various decades while others succumb to time, but after a numb...

  • Sara Satellite

    Marvin (Marv) Frontier, eighteen, a housebound hemophiliac of the worst sort, lives a lonely existence in Tacoma, Washington. He spends his hours reading and computer surfing until one day when he is contacted by someone who calls herself Sara. Sara ...

  • The Eyes of Asgarthus

    Asgarthus (Az) Anderson, Portland teen, is slowly going blind and there is nothing he or medical science can do to stop it. While he tries to deal with his impending loss of sight, he finds out that he has developed another ability—that of a fo...

  • Moonlighters

    Greg Rosanoff and Rhonda Klimpt, seventeen, orphans and lifelong companions who live with their foster mother, stumble upon two rings in their hometown of Camas County, Washington. The rings aren't ordinary rings. They have the power to grant fl...

  • The Oddities

    Number Eight, a teen trained to be a warrior, escapes from a shadowy place known only as the Facility. He has no memory of his past and only wishes to discover who he is and where he is going. Enhanced with exceptional strength, speed, and aural abil...

  • Hoppers

    Colin Nicholson, student, jack-of-all-subjects and master of only one—English—has nothing much going for him. His widowed mother spends more of her time auditioning for roles in plays and low-budget cable movies than providing decent guar...

  • Phase-Out

    For Virgil West, seventeen, student and outcast, phasing out of this existence and into another is something he's neither prepared for nor is it something he wants. An object of derision at his school, he finds himself a target due to his phase-outs....

  • Sideshow

    Irving (Irv) Isserlis, seventeen, is a sideshow archer, working for a small circus outfit based in the state of Washington. Irv is good, not great, but his partner and girlfriend, Artemis (Arty) McBain, can do no wrong.  She never misses, a...

  • Take a Bullet for You

    Paul Rosen, seventeen, has led a short and unfulfilling life. Stricken with severe cardiomyopathy, his time is limited, and he knows it. Still, he does what he can in the time he's got. The course of his life changes when a little man named Cawt...

  • Thread Weaver

    Fenton Mardwich, amateur artist, steps through a wormhole and lands on Kaseto, a medieval world that's been conquered by a vicious, brutal race. He's immediately put into service not as a soldier, but as a scribe, a war correspondent, someone wh...

  • The Last Best Choice

    When your life is on the line, it's not how much you know or how well-trained you are. It's how much you want to live.In the near future, Norman Perseus (Perse) Grant, eighteen, the son of an engineer on a transporter project, is given the chance to ...

  • Port Anywhere

    FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF YA FICTION J.S. FRANKELA restaurant in space, a waystation for all those who need a meal. When one of the guests turns out to be forbidden cargo, everything changes.Rick Granger, seventeen, is the sole human occupant of Port A...

  • Guardians

    For Nick Sorvas, seventeen, and an orphan of the stars, Earth is but a distant memory. Carson's Syndrome, a neurological disease caused by an unknown virus, has killed over eighty percent of the world's population. Humanity's only chance for survival...

  • Mr. Familiar

    Sam Knowlen, dutiful student and son, almost eighteen and searching for his perfect mate, runs afoul of a witch named Leena one night while taking in the nightlife of Tacoma, Washington. Leena, a spiteful individual, mistakes Sam for her familiar, an...

  • Melters

    In the near future, Norton Horton, eighteen, resident of Bellingham, Washington, lives with a virus that causes his flesh to decay in sunlight. As a member of a newly designated class call Melters, jobs are scarce, and prejudice is rampant. &nbs...

  • The Neighbors

    It's been two years since the Great Incursion, an event that saw the entry of many alien species to our world. Some were friendly, some weren't. With those that weren't, wars resulted, leading to millions of deaths. Darby 'Dar' Havens, eighteen,...

  • The Window to Tellkar

    FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF YOUNG ADULT FICTION J.S. FRANKELWindows show us the world outside. As Mark Cornish discovers, his classmate Glenda can create windows to other realms -- not all of them friendly.A window offers people a view of th...

  • The Dance of Death

    Carl Silverman, and Amanda Worthington, both seventeen, dating, in love and loving their school life, have their world turned upside down when a virus--known as the Odoru (dancing) virus--spreads throughout their city of Routeville, Illinois, turning...

  • Rebellion

     Carl Silverman, Grover Plover, and Genevieve Gray return, this time making a new life for themselves in Baltimore, Maryland. They continue their zombie-killing lifestyle, while Carl tries to go back to school and attempts to lead a normal life....

  • The Backup Crew

    Zander Nelson, formerly known as Phantom and a member of a superhero group called the Backup Crew, loses his job and his apartment—due to a bomb—in one afternoon.  He finds refuge with his ex-girlfriend and teammate, Millie Lenn...

  • The Replacement

    Lorne Kimbrel, a student and part-time short-order cook, needs money, and he needs it fast. His parents have died due to illness, and the tax department waits for no one.  In steps a man named Dass who promises Lorne a job. Lorne accepts, b...

  • And The Devil Take Ye

    Edvil—Ed—a minion of Hell, is Lucifer's best soul-taker. Stationed in New York, he's very good at what he does. However, all his plans go by the wayside when Hell's accountants tell the overlord that they're two souls over. There's a bala...

  • Seven Times Unto Eternity

    Being reincarnated over and over is one thing. Becoming the opposite sex is another. But saving the world is an entirely different story-and it's also a lot stranger.You get only one go-around in life, or so the experts say. Paige DeMaster, almost ni...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.S. Frankel has published 75 books.

J.S. Frankel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Seven Times Unto Eternity, was published in January 2024.

The first book by J.S. Frankel, The Tower, was published in April 2011.

Yes. J.S. Frankel has 5 series.
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