Romantic suspense, frontier epics, historical western and science fiction romance —
15 books across four series, each one built around something buried
and someone who has to decide what it costs to dig it up.
“Simply put: It’s the best American Frontier enemies-to-lovers romance I’ve read.”
“This has easily been one of the best slow burns I’ve read all year.”
“Ardent is a deeply moving story about truth, love, loss, courage and the quiet strength it takes to bring something buried in the past back into the light.”
The books
Every book
15 titles on Kindle — 10 out now, 5 on pre-order.
Book One · Out now
ARDENT
I have six weeks to talk a man worth four hundred million dollars out of demolishing the most important building in Tasmania.
Frankie Vale reads buildings with her hands, the way her stonemason father taught her. She's never met a wall that lied to her. Julian Marsh is another matter — guarded, unreadable, and the owner of a derelict ballroom he refuses to explain. He gives her six weeks to change his mind. Every day. In the building. Alone with him.
“Ardent is a deeply moving story about truth, love, loss, courage and the quiet strength it takes to bring something buried in the past back into the light.”
I can tell you the day any building will fall down. It's people I've never been able to calculate.
Nadia Roe reads loads, not people. The job is simple: assess a ruined convent laundry, sign the form that lets a developer flatten it, walk away. Except the ground is lying to her — a void under the wash-house floor the survey swears can't exist, and fifty years of records cut from every archive with a blade.
“It’s an immediate suspense and the chemistry is real!”
A true light can't lie about the rocks. People can — so I mend lights, and I never learned to read the people.
Ailsa Vane trusts glass, not men. The job is simple: cross to a shut-off island, assess the old lens a developer wants stripped, sign the form, go home. Except the light is lying — rigged a hundred and fifty years ago to shine safe over a reef that isn't — and the salvage diver already on the rock wants her gone before she reads what's on the bottom.
She crossed a continent for a new life. She buried it on the plains.
When the smoke clears, Nora Callahan's husband is dead, her wagon is ash, and she is walked north on a line — by the one warrior who looked at her across the killing ground and chose not to let her die. She should hate him. Then, one moonless night, she is handed the chance to go home. She doesn't take it.
“Simply put: It’s the best American Frontier enemies-to-lovers romance I’ve read.”
“Well written and wonderfully erotic. I couldn’t put it down.”
He waited a year and a war to make her his wife. Now the whole world is coming to take her back.
In a hidden river valley, Nora is no longer a captive but a chosen woman — courted in the open, joined before the whole band. But the good days are a held breath. A cavalry column is grinding up the river country, and inside the camp a rival's poison is turning frightened hearts against her.
She chose him, and the whole army has come to save her from that choice.
The valley is ash. Major Elias Crane does not rage, does not tire, and does not turn back. Nora is of the band now — in blood, by law, and by every choice she would make again — and she is carrying her warrior's child. Her time is coming due at the exact hour the trap closes.
“It’s unusual for me to get weepy, but there were a couple places where the emotional depth was so intense, I had to stop reading and gather myself.”
He burned a nation to save her from the life she chose. This is the morning he comes to take her.
Four days after Nora's daughter is born, three battalions close on the canyon at dawn. In a single morning the lodges, the winter and the People burn — and Nora hands her newborn into the smoke rather than let the man who destroyed everything call it a rescue. They have run for two summers. They are done running. The darkest book of the five; the happily-ever-after is protected across the series.
“In these books by Jasinna Ashcombe, I noted in WARPATH that I am reading every single word loyally, the story is that compelling to me.”
He crossed a nation to drag her back. This is the reckoning — and the home on the far side of it.
She was never a captive. She chose the hunted, hard, wholly free life of the People, and she chose the war-leader who carried them out of the fire. Now the running is over. The People do not run — they turn, on ground of their own choosing, and Nora ends it herself, by her own hand. The fire stops here.
“The author gifted an incredibly satisfying series of novels.”
She has kept the only way into a hidden valley all her life. Today a white man comes up the stone — and she does not shoot.
Montana, 1887. First Light has never been a captive and never been afraid: born free in a valley the Indian Wars never found, daughter of Nora Callahan and Grey Hawk, the couple of Season One. Wes Pruett rode up the mountain looking for a captive to rescue. He finds a woman who needs rescuing from nothing, and a valley whose one law is that no one goes back down the stone. Season Two begins here.
Out here, every door is his. Out here, she has to be nobody.
Montana, 1890. First Light, daughter of Nora and Grey Hawk, goes out through the notch to read the outside for her hidden valley, and her husband rides beside her under a false name. Horse thieves, a grass fire, whisky men, and on ration day two young men riding against the soldiers while the whole tribe watches. When the army comes close he asks her to stay nobody for good, and she ends the marriage the way her people do: out loud. Now he has to win her back in the open.
The winter the Indian wars end, a Cheyenne woman and the white man she married come home together, or not at all.
South Dakota, the winter of 1890. The pass is shut, and the new dance has called her cousin south to Pine Ridge, so First Light, daughter of Nora and Grey Hawk, rides out after her, carrying Wes's child, with Wes beside her. Between the Cheyenne River and the Drexel mission the line between their peoples turns to massacre, and the whole white world comes down between them. The only way home is to stop carrying it alone. The finale of The Prairie Fire Series.
It was the planet that would save humanity. Then the colonists started walking off into the dark — and coming back wrong.
Dr. Maren Cole crossed forty years of empty space to read a whole new living world. Then a girl vanishes from inside the wall. Then another. No bodies. No trail. Just the shape of where a person used to be. Kade Bishop wants to wall the danger out. Maren wants to understand it before it's too late.
“Thoughtfully written, with relationships, suspense, romance.”
“The character and world building are detailed and strong, very well written and constructed storyline.”
A belt of ash and burned ground is all that stands between Longlight and the thing that takes people. Every night, through the window before dawn, the colony's own taken walk the line and call inward. They are obscenely happy. Because Elpis was never laying siege to the colony. It's mounting a rescue.
“This has easily been one of the best slow burns I’ve read all year.”
For an age, nobody ever asked it a single question.
The siege is over, and that is worse. Two hundred pale faces stand with their backs to Longlight, aimed at the dark, listening to somewhere else. Nadia Vos counts the drums and runs the arithmetic of a colony with a war behind it and no war left to fight.
She has three years in a Kansas City parlour house that nobody knows about, and she is very good at making sure of it.
October 1883. Clara Whitfield steps off the train at Perdido, New Mexico Territory, the first of nine young women hired to prove that a railroad company can guarantee something about a woman. Daniel Mercer, a freight brakeman with a hundred and two dollars toward a claim, is the one thing she is not permitted to want. Then a polite man in a good coat gets off the westbound. He holds the note on her mother's land, and he is prepared to wait.
Jasinna Ashcombe writes dark romance from Tasmania, which is a useful place to live if you like buildings with something under the floor.
Her books are adult and explicit, and they end well — every one of them, guaranteed. In between, they take their subjects seriously: institutional laundries, forced adoption, frontier war, the long grief of people who were told to move on. Each book opens with a content note. None of the darkness is decoration.
Every book stands alone. Start wherever you like.
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The Salvage Series, Book Three — out 5 November 2026.
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