Janrae Frank


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I was first published in 1979, in Amazons! edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (DAW books).

I had twenty books published by Renaissance Ebooks, and after regaining my rights in 2008, have been bringing my backlist out independently.

I also operate a small publishing company, Daverana Enterprises.

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Diaries of Becka (vol. 1)    by Tim Willard
Price: $4.99 USD. 177950 words. Published by Janrae Frank on January 31, 2012. .

“It was New Year’s Day, and the world was forever changed. God help us all.” – Rebecca Starling The dead have risen and seek to devour the living. The military holds desperately against the tide of dead flesh. Police officers just struggle to survive. The government reels from one disaster to the next, and the population of the whole world is soon engaged in a fight just for survival.
Tales of the Axe (Book #1)    by Tim Willard
Price: $4.99 USD. 36830 words. Published by Janrae Frank on October 19, 2011. .

Fraker the Axe is a legend who has ruined kingdoms and defeated entire armies. But what happens between the epic feats, quests, and world shaking events? Tales of the Axe follows Fraker as he follows the commands of his powerful liege or stumbles across complex plots that could change everything. Fraker has nothing but his wits and battle prowess to keep the entire Six Worlds safe from evil.
Dragon Insurrection    by Susie Hawes
Price: $5.99 USD. 62540 words. Published by Janrae Frank on August 10, 2010. .

Book 2 in the Dragon Thing to do series. Join Farquarte and Fechum as they plan commerce and insurrection. Meet a Cajun Elf and a dastardly mad scientist. Explore the Dragon Creed as Farquarte, newly changed from Homo Sapiens to Reptiliuos Dragonus, discovers what it means to be a huge fire-breathing reptile in a land that is decidedly not dragon friendly.
Hard-Boiled Horrors    by Mark Orr
Price: $5.99 USD. 75330 words. Published by Janrae Frank on August 9, 2010. .

Hard-boiled detectives encounter the supernatural in a collection of tales set in a period that spans from 1881 to shortly after World War II. Written in a style reminiscent of Mickey Spillane and Damon Runyon, this delightful collection of stories is a mix of reprints and originals that show off the talents of Mark Orr to perfection.
Dragon Creed    by Susie Hawes
Price: $5.99 USD. 64530 words. Published by Janrae Frank on April 6, 2010. .

When you're the only dragon in a country where magic is illegal, what's a dragon gonna do? Fechum is an old dragon, lonely and crippled. Farquarte is his human apprentice. The society they live in is oppressive, over-regulating its citizens and suppressing its magical people. Farquarte decides the government needs an attitude change. Join them as they lock horns with the system

Books

Blood Lies (Dark Brothers of the Light #9)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 66300 words. Published on December 7, 2011. Fiction.

Isranon's army winters at the estate of Lord Edvarde near Ildyrsetts. Isranon needs mages for his war against the hellgod, Galee, and must convince the high mages to aid his cause. His apprentices, Stygean and Jingen compete for the affections of Chinisi, niece of senior mage, Geoffry Cordwainer. It swiftly escalates from words to violence, threatening Isranon's alliance with the mages.
Blood Hope (Dark Brothers of the Light #8)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 51310 words. Published on June 1, 2011. Fiction.

As the Army of the Renunciate fights it way north, marching to the relief of embattled Angrim, Isranon tries to turn two thirteen-year-old boys from the path of darkness: Stygean Loosestrife and Jingen Scathwick. Aided and abetted by Jingen's mother, the boys plan to murder him; and his reward for trying to save them may well be death.
Blood Harvest (Dark Brothers of the Light #7)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 32950 words. Published on May 26, 2011. Fiction.

Filled with misgivings Isranon attempts to weld the forces of hemovores, lycans, and humans he has brought together, knowing they can be no match for the armies of the hell-goddess Gylorean Galee. If Isranon fails, Galee will be free to throw open the Gate of the Hellgods, loosening their dark destructive powers to ravage the world.
Blood Arcane (Dark Brothers of the Light #6)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 41920 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Fiction.

Isranon's challenges become greater as his world grows darker. He must become not just a leader of his disparate peoples, but a lawgiver who can weld them together into a force strong enough to defeat Galee's armies. Meanwhile, Isranon attempts to win Stygean and Jingen over to the side of the light despite his friends' dire predictions that the boys will kill him, if he does not kill them first.
Blood Paladin (Dark Brothers of the Light #5)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 72590 words. Published on March 13, 2011. Fiction.

Isranon is taken captive by an unscrupulous mercenary captain, and driven mad by tasting the blood of Anksha, the demon-eater. And in the background evil Gods struggle to become supreme in a world in which every living being is increasingly at jeopardy. As darkness deepens, can even a Dark Brother of the Light resist its onslaught? (Dark Brothers of the Light #5)
Blood Wraiths (Dark Brothers of the Light #4)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 59510 words. Published on March 13, 2011. Fiction.

Carried off by his liege god in a moment of rage, Isranon must make his case to an even more ancient and powerful diety or die on a night when the Blood Wraiths dance their madness on men's souls.
Blood Dawn (Dark Brothers of the Light #3)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 75250 words. Published on March 5, 2011. Fiction.

Isranon and Anksha flee her estate ahead of the advancing army of the Minnorian empress. Pursued by soldiers and bounty-hunters, they fall in with a group of refugees led by a stalwart young healer who is more than she appears.
Blood Heresy (Dark Brothers of the Light #2)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 48720 words. Published on December 14, 2010. Fiction.

(4.00 from 1 review)
The world's only hope is now the despised Isranon, apostate Dark Brother of the Light. Eternally bound to Anksha the demon-eater, and threatened by his own people as well as the scions of the light, how can Isranon prevent the coming holocaust sweeping the planet free of life? How can he even hope to survive long enough to recover his ancestor's staff, long promised to him in prophecy?
Blood Rites (Dark Brothers of the Light #1)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $2.99 USD. 55620 words. Published on December 14, 2010. Fiction.

(4.00 from 1 review)
Taken as a blood-slave by Anksha the Beast, Isranon, a young necromancer must choose between his dead father's teachings of pacifism and his lycan mentor's warrior beliefs in order to survive. In a brutal world of demons and the undead, Isranon must find the key to Anksha's inner nature. He reaches out for answers in a world growing steadily more hostile toward him.
The Shadowed Princes (Lycan Blood 7)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $5.99 USD. 103120 words. Published on April 7, 2010. Fiction.

Lycan Blood concludes in this volume. The thanes have gathered in Wolffgard to decide whether to give Kynyr the crown or to hang him. Crippled by his enemies, the only thing standing between Kynyr and a noose are his powerful grandfather, Todd, and his four uncles: Brock, Jordan, Trevor, and Queran. But will even these five mighty warriors be enough to save him when the Serpent is unleashed.
Kady's Vengeance (Lycan Blood 6)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $5.99 USD. 110450 words. Published on March 22, 2010. Fiction.

Kady Maguire's husband made her promise that if something happened to him, she would flee to their allies in Creeya and not come back without an army. That's exactly what she did. The legendary lycan armsmaster, Todd Sinclair, is her general and there's going to be hell to pay.
The Exile's Return (lycan Blood 5)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $5.99 USD. 120260 words. Published on March 2, 2010. Fiction.

Kynyr is hunting for private justice and proof that Malthus murdered a lawgiver. His wife, Kady, takes a viper into her nest by letting her sister Larena live with them: Larena is secretly sleeping with Malthus. Cooley Blackwood has gone looking for his father's murderer. Into this perilous mix, rides a Creeyan military intelligence officer, Stoneriver,who might be Kynyr's worst nightmare.
Kynyr's War (Lycan Blood 4)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $5.95 USD. 137030 words. Published on February 27, 2010. Fiction.

Amos Raggat sends a letter to Kynyr Maguire, begging for assistance. When Amos' messenger is murdered, the letter goes astray as a monk, Brother Malcolm, attempts to deliver it without any idea which Kynyr Maguire it goes to. The letter holds the key to Malthus' efforts to take over the town of Hell's Widow and decimate the lycan community there.
If Truth Dies (Lycan Blood 3)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $5.99 USD. 108590 words. Published on February 27, 2010. Fiction.

Malthus has discovered Kynyr's secret and means to kill him for it. Kynyr is the rightful prince and heir to the throne of Red Wolf. Engaged to be married to his beloved Kady Wiggins, other forces are moving to prevent the wedding, even if it means killing both of them.
Fireborn Law (Lycan Blood 2)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $5.99 USD. 92480 words. Published on February 27, 2010. Fiction.

Padruig Caimbeul, the lawgiver known as Fireborn Law, went to Wolffgard to investigate Malthus Estrobian. Kynyr Maguire is not certain whether Caimbeul is friend or foe, especially after he threatens to arrest Kynyr’s grandfather, Todd, on a charge of murder to force Kynyr’s cooperation.
Serpent's Quest (Lycan Blood 1)    by Janrae Frank
Price: $1.00 USD. 95200 words. Published on February 27, 2010. Fiction.

Malthus arrives in Red Wolf, posing as a human refugee from the war beyond their borders. An assassin, code-named "Butchering Serpent," he searches for what happened to his brother who vanished there two years ago and destroy the lycans for his queen. Opposing him is Kynyr, an idealistic young guardsman with secrets of his own, trained by the greatest armsmaster of all time.

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