Kristin Jacques is an award-winning author of fantasy fiction for teens and adults. She currently lives in a small town in Connecticut with her partner, kiddos, and two trash goblins who think they are cats. When not writing, she’s usually reading, gaming, or catching some excellent b-horror movies. She is currently working on projects full of magic, mystery, and delight.
Knots in the Skein: An Ikepela Ives Novella
Series: Ikepela Ives
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Blurb: On her 18th birthday, Ikepela Ives receives her birthright and finds her world turned upside down when the myths of her childhood become reality.
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Ikepela Ives is a regular teen enjoying her senior year and planning for college. Sure, it's been hard being raised by her single dad on the island, but her life is good. That reality shifts when the clock strikes 10:21 AM on the day of her 18th birthday. At the exact moment she entered this world, she is pulled into another by a fiery Goddess. Her eyes are forced open, in more ways than one, with a few devastating family secrets. Add an unwanted epic birthright as the cherry on top to make this the worst birthday ever. And Ikepela is having none of it. Knots in the Skein is a prequel novella that takes place three years before the events of Ragnarok Unwound.
Ragnarok Unwound
Series: Ikepela Ives
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: When every myth is real, so is every terrible fate, destiny, and prophecy; it's a messy job but someone has to untangle them.
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Prophecies don't untangle themselves. Just ask Ikepela Ives, whose estranged mother left her with the power to unravel the binding threads of fate. Stuck with immortal power in a mortal body, Ives has turned her back on the duty she never wanted. But it turns out she can’t run from her fate forever, not now that Ragnarok has been set in motion and the god at the center of that tangled mess has gone missing. With a ragtag group of companions—including a brownie, a Valkyrie, and the goddess of death herself—Ives embarks on her first official mission as Fate Cipher—to save the world from doomsday. Nothing she can't handle. Right?
Poison & Poultice
Series: The Gate Cycle
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Blurb: Brixby followed his ward to the Above and found himself captured, but the apothecary's hidden past may yet save him.
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Book 1.5 in the Gate Cycle Every magic has a taste–from the cold, cloying sweetness of the Winnowrooks to the hinted rot and bitter earth of the Mire witches. To know the flavor of one’s magic is to know the poison that will control it. Oswin Brixby is a traveling Meister, accompanied by his dearest childhood friend and helpmate, Lia. Trained in the subtle magics mastered by the people of the Hooded Wood, his extensive knowledge of the natural and unnatural world gives him a free pass to the journeyman road–the one and only protected path between the varying territories, Above and Below. Brixby believes he is content in his wandering trade, though in his heart of hearts, he wonders what his true purpose should be. Despite this nagging doubt, there has never been a reason to change or deviate from the known. That is until Lia stumbles onto two foundlings in the pitch-black depths Below. A boy and a girl whose magic tastes of something far too dangerous to be left alive.
Marrow Charm
Series: The Gate Cycle
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: Azzy will risk the creatures of the Above and Below to save her brother, but can she save him from the magic that eats at his mind?
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Azure Brimvine lives in a world decimated by magic. One where humans have retreated underground from the overwhelming dangers of the surface. But Below is no safer than Above. Magic borne plagues continue to eat away at the remaining human cities. A sickness that doesn't merely kill, but creates aberrations from the stricken: people twisted by magic into something dark, dangerous, and powerful. But when Azzy's brother, Armin, is infected and cast out into the Above, she sets out after him, determined to be there for him no matter what he becomes. The world Above is full of monsters, both wild and cunning, some more human than Azzy was led to believe. Her search for Armin leads her to Avergard, a ruthless city of inhuman lords and twisted creatures. Azzy must find allies and forge new bonds in this broken world, brave the perils of the Above, and reach Armin before his new power is used to open the Gate once more.
Skin Curse
Series: The Gate Cycle
Series Number: 2
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Blurb: Azzy must navigate the corrupt city of Avergard to find her brother but a new threat lurks at the edges, ready to consume them all.
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The Children of the Gate wait for the call to Rise. Azzy Brimvine knows her brother is in the vast city of Avergard. She must find him, but time is not on their side. In the House of Seven Smiles, Azzy struggles to understand the constraints and limits of her power. She finds the whispering voices that guided her for so long, suddenly silent. The enigmatic Lord Wallach is both a frustrating ally and a dangerous mystery, and a strange entity lurks among the household servants. The haven Azzy sought may not be as safe as she thought... but is anywhere truly safe in the Above? The city of Avergard is full of monsters and secrets, and a dark history festers at its root. A yawning pit nestles in the house of a scheming lord, who will use Armin's dangerous gifts to raise history, and raze the city to the ground. As Azzy finds herself and her brother pulled into these machinations, she must navigate the politics and society of Avergard's brutal ruling class to save her family and friends before the Gate consumes them all.