Romantic suspense, frontier epics and science fiction romance — 10 books across three series, each one built around something buried and someone who has to decide what it costs to dig it up.
The series
Every book stands alone. Every series rewards reading in order.
The books
10 titles on Kindle — 8 out now, 2 on pre-order.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It doesn't hunt you. It saves you.
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.
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.
The author
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.
Advance readers
The Salvage Series, Book Two — out 5 October 2026. A free advance copy, in exchange for an honest review on release day.
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