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    124 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Jane Ellen Jamison was born on 27 December 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA, daugther of Frances (Crooks) and James K. Jamison. When she was nine months old, her parents, both teachers, took her to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where she grew up most of her childhood. Her father played a key role in encouraging her as a writer, who was, himself, a history writer. She attended Michigan State University, College of the Sequoias and Northern Michigan University. She has been a registered nurse as well as a Cadet Nurse during WWII. On 24 June 1949, she married Doctor Albert Jenke, became a housewife and had five children: James, Ellen, Ann, Bobbie Jane, and Robert. Years later, she found time to write, but her husband told her it was trash. Despite this, she persisted until he finally gave her an ultimatum–writing or him. The divorce left her with all the kids except the eldest, who was in med school, and having to work as an R.N.. When she met John Edward Toombs in the writing class that led to her first sale, she was not contemplating marrying again. But she did on 2 March 1972, adding to the mix two stepchildren: Michael and Leslie. She is now a widow with seven grandchildren, and has returned "home" to live in the beautiful Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior--withher old High School Swedish friend, the "Viking" from her past.

Jane Ellen has published of numerous published books, both in paper and electronic, as well as some articles. She uses her maiden and second married name: Ellen Jamison and Jane Toombs, but she has used a few pseudonyms: Olivia Sumner, and Jane Anderson, she also wrote as Diana Stuart in collaboration with Dee Stuart, and under the colective pseudonyms: Rebecca Drury, and Lee Willoughby Davis. Her writing covers various romance genres such as gothic, suspense, contemporary, historical, paranormal, mystery, fantasy and horror. She is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America.

Full Series List in Order

Dangerous Darkness

1 - Shadow on the Floor (Jun-2011)
2 - Watcher at the Door (Aug-2011)
3 - Terror From Before (Jan-2012)

A Darkness of Dragons

1 - Dragon's Pearl (Jun-2010)
2 - Dragon's Diamond (Jul-2010)
3 - Dragon's Stone (Sep-2010)

Golden Chances

1 - The Bastard (Sep-2011)
2 - The Interloper (Sep-2011)
3 - The Dancer (Oct-2011)
5 - The Fixer (Oct-2011)
6 - The Deceiver (Oct-2011)
7 - The Rebel (Oct-2011)
8 - The Wild Card (Dec-2012)

Hallow House

1 - Hallow House (Sep-2011)

Kholi Connection

1 - Nobody's Baby (Feb-1997)
2 - Baby of Mine (Jun-1998)
3 - Accidental Parents (May-1999)
4 - Designated Daddy (Sep-1999)
5 - Wild Mustang (May-2000)
6 - Her Mysterious Houseguest (Apr-2001)
7 - The Missing Heir (Nov-2001)

Moonrunner

1 - Under the Shadow (Jul-1992)
2 - Gathering Darkness (Apr-1993)
3 - Dark Sunrise (Apr-2008)

Temple of Time

1 - Forbidden (Mar-2004)
2 - Forsaken (Jul-2004)
4 - Forsworn (Mar-2008)

Underworld

1 - Unwise (Oct-2010)
2 - Unwanted (Jan-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Always a Bridesmaid!

The Abandoned Bride (Sep-1995)

American Indian

4 - Chippewa Daughter (Jan-1982)
13 - Arapaho Spirit (Aug-1983)

Birthstone Gothic

11 - A Topaz for My Fair Lady (Oct-1975)

That's My Baby

7 - Nobody's Baby (Feb-1997)

Zodiac Gothic

The Star-Fire Prophecy (Nov-1995)

Book List in Order: 124 titles



  • SHE HAD THE POWER Witchcraft and the Devil were part of her family heritage a heritage from which she could not escape! Bebe opened her purse and took out the tiny doll wrapped in blue silk. Her grandmother made this doll and all the others lik...



  • The Topaz brooch was the icy key to her former life - and death. They Told Her She Was Dead! Risa had awakened to a nightmare. Knocked unconscious in a minor accident only moments before, now, somehow, her whole life had changed. The man beside...



  • ACCURSED Janella Maki lived in a world without a past, a world where childhood memories were shrouded in terrifying shadows. A world in which she never felt she really belonged. Then one day a handsome man appeared and introduced himself as he...



  • Among the Chippewa, by the cold northern shores of Lake Kitchigami, a woman named Birch Leaf dreams of a man-bear who thrusts out a flaming hand...It is the promised vision from the animal spirits, a sign that she can now be married...but the dream m...



  • He pledged his life to the cause of a tribe and banished revenge as he sought a woman's love....




  • What secrets lay hidden inside? A tradition of honor and intrigue marked the halls of Rathmaiden, the ancient family home of the Chivers family. Set in a peaceful Irish valley, it gave no outward sign of the turmoil and danger inside. Charlotte Bolto...



  • There seemed to be no escape... A sordid scandal drove Martha Jamison from her California home to seek solace in the rustic setting of British Columbia. There as companion to young Josephine Garrard, she would be able to forge a new life for herself...



  • The story of the Logans and the Ruthvens -- their fierce passions, their cherished dreams -- and of the dark destiny that pursued their generations... DUGALD LOGAN -- A fierce fighter who believed in the strength of Scotland... but the land was tor...







  • Jurrisa Winterton was beginning a new life; just married, the beautiful young bride was sailing to New Orleans with her husband Philip. And while Philip was confined to their cabin with a bad case of mal de mer, Jurissa found herself unwillingly draw...



  • A Legacy of Terror Mara was only sic when she was pulled out of Lake Michigan's turbulent waters and adopted by a Kindly judge. Though her early childhoods was a mystery, she sensed even then the extraordinary mental gifts which her unknown past had...





  • INTERFERING TENDERFOOT If she weren't so committed to healing, frontier doctor Jennara Gray would've killed that arrogant easterner Bramwell Sumner. The single-minded man had stormed into her home, accused her of trying to swindle his rich stepbroth...



  • Flame-haired Nona Willard never should have met that devil-may-care Spencer Quinlan! The level-headed schoolteacher carried a torch for another man and she certainly didn't want this cynical, outspoken journalist to turn her world upside-down. But th...



  • SHE WAS SEARCHING FOR LOVE Orphaned and alone, Merribeth Winston set out in search of her runaway sister, the only family she had left. But on the steamer bound for New Orleans, a dazzling raven-haired stranger caught her eye--and sent the innocen...



  • Orphaned at an early age, Esma Drake had long relied on the kindness of others. Thus, when she was asked to act as a nurse and companion to fragile young Alisette Nikolai, Esma readily accepted the offer. Her arrival at Sea Cliff House, however, fill...



  • Radiant, high spirited Barbara Thackery was horrified to learn that her beloved papa had been captured by the despised Rebels and imprisoned in Virginia. Deteremined to rescue him, the innocent Ohio beauty set out for Richmond only to be hauled into ...



  • Dr. Helena Moore is eager to start her new job with her stepsister, Fran, in California, but when she arrives to find Fran's lifeless body, she sets out to find the murderer who was lurking in hospital corridors. Original....







  • FIRST THEY WERE RIVALS... If only she had been born a boy instead of a girl! Nara Winfield would then be next in line to inherit Winfield Hall, instead of the distant cousin who was about to arrive and banish her from her ancestral home. Meanwhile, ...



  • The turbulent shores of the Great Lakes...and five courageous, beautiful women. They are young enough to love, strong enough to survive, and brave enough to dream! OCTAVIA -- Stranded in the wilds of Canada, far from the glittering drawing rooms o...



  • Despite the isolation of their California fortress, designed to keep out mysterious assassins, the Volek family faces the dangers of their own dark powers--powers that mutate with each succeeding generation. Original....



  • Something wicked this way comes... Centuries before the first white man set foot on Mount Sangre, the ancient ones warned that something slept there, something unspeakably evil...And yet, one terrible night, that evil was awakened by innocents too...



  • Legacy of fear The Bleak, shadow-haunted old house on the shores of Lake Superior was Inary Cameron's only inheritance - or so she had always believed. But the temptation to explore a long-forgotten room led to the chilling discovery that she was ...



  • Out of the depths... All her life, Kendra Tremaine had trembled at the very thought of Lynx Lake. She had known even as a child that something unspeakable waited below the surface of the water - and she had long sworn never again to set foot on it...



  • DESIRE She had the gift of song and the inner strength of the shaman. But her visions did not warn her that she would be captured by the savage Sioux...or rescued from the brink of death by an even more dangerous enemy. Sworn to hate the blue-eyed...



  • A howling in the night... From the moment she arrived at Halfmoon House, Neita Metsula knew something was very wrong at the Victorian mansion high above the storm-tossed California coast. But was the evil she sensed outside, where shadowy creature...



  • A SWEEPING LOVE STORY OF TWO SISTERS...AND TWO DANGEROUS AND IRRESISTIBLE MEN. Rosalind...When her Michigan-bound steamboat is captured by Rebel soldiers, the eighteen-year-old orphan is intrigued by a black-bearded stranger who treats her gently....






  • Bewitched One look into Guy Russell's eyes and Lia Courtois felt she'd known him - forever. Though they'd never met, she felt they were destined to be together. So why did this connection to him seem as if it could destroy her very soul? Guy d...



  • The moment of truth All the guests had arrived at St. John's Church. The wedding gown had been donned. The organ music swelled. Lucy Maguire's big day had finally arrived. All she had to do was walk down the aisle.... Until a mysterious man bu...



  • The fires of Sagittarius led Danica to a deadly psychic struggle... In flight from the sinister prophecy pronounced upon her birth, Danica, an impetuous redhead with a fiery Sagittarian nature, strikes out for a new life in the rugged Sierra footh...



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    Francis and Eileen, lovers torn apart by the fortunes of war, are passionately united in Paris. Their illicit romance is threatened when her brother, Martin, discovers their secret. Though comrades in the sky, Martin becomes a bitter enemy of Francis...



  • FROM HERE TO PATERNITY The blonde and the baby definitely spelled trouble. Bachelor Zed Adams knew it the instant spitfire Karen Henderson and diaper-clad Danny stormed his peaceful Nevada ranch. Still, never had trouble looked so danged appealing...



  • Andrea Sullivan came to the deserted park in Ottawa not knowing what she would find. Waiting was a child in danger and a man drawn there by destiny, who would soon hold all their fates in his hands... Ten-year-old Yvonne Lombarde-Wells was the dau...



  • I've never seen you in a film,' she challenged. 'I'm not surprise,' Jerrold replied. 'I make no claim to fame.' Carole Harte had never dreamed that she could be so attracted to a man or that any man could be so perfect. Trouble is, she's neve...



  • THAT'S NOT MY BABY! Ever since her ex-husband had stolen her baby, Linnea Swanson had waited for this moment. But the diaper-clad infant delivered by sexy Special Agent Talal Zohir wasn't hers. Frustrated and disheartened, Linnea had no choice but...



  • IT TAKES TWO... OR THREE... TO BE A FAMILY Iron-willed Jade Adams melted the minute she found a frightened, orphaned five-year-old. And she would do anything to keep the little tyke -- even cooperate with Nathan Walker, the disturbingly attractive d...



  • 007 FACES FATHERHOOD Steely government agent Steve Henderson was a lone wolf. Afraid of nothing. Needing no one. Until compassionate nurse Victoria Reynaud placed a newborn in his arms, inexplicably calling the baby girl HIS! The orphaned li...






  • GOTHIC To Boris Gregory, Vigil House was his dream come true--a Russian palace transplanted to California where he'd build his dynasty. Accustomed to going his own way, he pays no heed to the local Indians who warn him the site he'd chosen was sacred...



  • SHE STRUCK A MARRIAGE BARGAIN WITH A MAN SHE DIDN'T KNOW.... The fierce, raven-haired stranger who rescued her from a stampede was as untamed as the mustangs that cautious Laura Walker had come to the reservation to study. So why wasn't she terri...




  • HE WAS TALL, DARK...AND TEMPTING Mysterious Mikel arrived out of nowhere. Rescued Rachel's elderly relative. Then stayed on at her remote Michigan farm to see her through the crisis. Yet with her haunted past, Rachel couldn't risk trusting anyone,...



  • Raising horses -- not spying on scheming females -- was rugged Russ Simon's passion. Still, for his family's sake, he grudgingly agreed to discover whether poor if pretty rancher Marigold Crowley was a gold-digging impostor...or a truly missing heire...




  • THERE'S A NEW MAN IN TOWN... Ex-lawyer David Severin came to Tourmaline to escape his problems. Psychologist Amy Simon came to Tourmaline to solve problems. But working at the counseling center run by David's aunt, she couldn't help but notice that ...



  • Historical Fiction, WWI Thriller: 007 in World War I. That's Luke, an American pilot from Denver, recruited from the French Air Force for a secret mission into German territory. Straight-shooter Luke takes time he can't afford to discover his British...





  • Vella Frazier has no idea the gift of a wolf belt will change her life--but will it be for better or worse? When she meets Guy St. Simon, she’s plunged into such strange and confusing circumstances she can’t decided what and who to believe. How c...







  • WHOSE BABY? The last thing police officer Dan Sorenson expected to find on his doorstep during the biggest blizzard of the season was a woman. A beautiful, shivering woman. But once he escorted her inside to warm up, he was in for an even bigger s...





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    1920s Chicago: Though an Ouija Board predicts barnstormer aviator Bruce and Christie will fall in love doing the Charleston together, prohibition's wild days threaten their happiness....



  • When a hugger doll enters Hally Varney's life she doesn't at first understand the danger. But Police Sergeant Clint Hendrick soon realizes that he should have paid more attention to his old granny's superstitions. He's discovered the hard way that hu...



  • Who has the stolen money? Taken from the thief by a killer, hidden away from him, then lost in the Sierras, where is it now? Convinced that three women have it, he and his men pursue them as they flee through the mountains during a violent storm.  H...











  • Esma Drake, fresh from the orphanage, arrives at Seacliff House to care for sickly five-year-old Alisette. Esma soon finds the household uneasy. The child's father and captain of Sea Dragon, Stephan Nicolai, is years overdue at port and to Esma's dis...



  • When Kegan Kendall, an English aristocrat in 1812 America, rescues an Indian Maiden held captive by the Sioux, he has no idea his life is forever changed.

    Snow Flower, a respected Mide shaman among the Anishinabe...





  • Andrea Sullivan receives a French Tarot card in the mail with a cryptic message that sends her hurrying from her home in Michigan to Gatineau Park in Canadas's Quebec Province. She expects to meet her best friend there, but instead...




  • Seth Kinman's annual Leonid party becomes exciting when an apparent meteorite strikes a nearby pond. Seth, his girlfriend, Kara, and Danny, the young son of one of Seth's friends, find what they believe to be meteorite shards in the form of oval rock...








  • Who are the Moonrunners? Why have they been blessed--or cursed--with unusual powers that make others fear them? Will they ever be able to bring their strange talents under control? As they try to live and love as ordinary humans do, they search despe...



  • Two sisters must decipher the difference between lust and true love...

    When Rosalind travels from New York to the Michigan wilderness to find her father, she encounters a hated Rebel and struggles against her ins...



  • Both love and danger confront P. I. Lisa Womack on the Northern California coast as she searches for her dead father's past. She's attracted to the man living in the Keeper's cottage at the lighthouse, but why does Mark Trenton seem to know her, when...



  • North Of Nonesuch--a magical place in the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where the real world can be invaded by strange occurrences. From shifters to djinns to vampires, to ghosts, anything may happen here. Danger, suspense and love happens to...



  • When the moon is full, Sussie Sironen struggles with a wild impulse to dash out and dance naked under its silvery rays. When, unexpectedly, something out there calls to her to join him in dancing, her fear drives her to enact a Finnish rite with a ce...



  • When beautiful half-gypsy Jehenna Scovia is thrust aboard an orphan train by a man employed by her father, she knows she’s an outcast. Nathan Cohen, hired by her father to find her and bring her home, believes she’s a runaway. She’s good at elu...








  • Two ten-year-old girls, Ari and Mandy vanish. One is found so traumatized she can't remember what happened or who she is. A barrette in her hair with a name on It identifies her as Ari. An uncle and aunt arrive and take her away from Null House. Her ...






  • What does a P.I. in search of a man who triggers illegal payoffs from slot machines, and a staid gal who’s a CPA, traveling on the gambling cruise ship as a bridge partner for an elderly aunt have in common? Maybe nothing until an uninvited Wheel o...



  • Book annotation not available for this title.Title: ShiftersAuthor: Bayne, Robin/ Dunne, Jennifer/ Nour, Myra/ Toombs, JanePublisher: New Concepts PubPublication Date: 2002/08/30Number of Pages: 260Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:...



  • In Monaco American tourist Karen Jameson meets wealthy race-car driver Gregory Sorrell when she runs into him with her bike. She can't believe it when he shows interest in her, certain he only intends a fling. But she also finds it hard to resist him...





  • A fairy tale about an innocent princess who believes what happens to her is a romantic dream. She has no idea the dream was a reality with consequences that will threaten her very life. How can she save herself and those she loves?...



  • Unwanted: In the world into which redhead Ella with her green eyes falls, red-haired green-eyed women are killed on sight as witches... Red-haired, green-eyed Ella Mack is lucky enough to cheat death when her car skids off a Nevada cliff. She falls i...







  • N Cozz: A dragon who fears becoming an outcast lays a wrong color egg. It’s not in her nature to destroy it. Is that alien machine outside her cave her answer?Earth: What happens when a young woman born to die and an impossible beast fall in love?...





  • A fast-moving, dramatic California saga about the people--Spanish, Anglo, Mexican and Indian who struggled, fought, made mistakes, loved and survived to build the foundations of the Golden State: The Bastard The Interloper The Dancer The Rebel The...



  • A house built for love and cursed with death. Two children, one will live, one will die. Magic potions and secret rooms. Is there a curse or does evil reside with innocence. What is the real secret of Hallow House?...



  • A fast-moving, dramatic California saga about the people--Spanish, Anglo, Mexican and Indian who struggled, fought, made mistakes, loved and survived to build the foundations of the Golden State. * * *Stella came for Angelica's funeral and took over ...



  • Everything from ghouls to the heart-eating Egyptian beast who decides one's fate. Even the touches of romance are definitely different. But what traveler can expect the norm when on the wrong side of midnight?...



  • A fast-moving, dramatic California saga about the people--Spanish, Anglo, Mexican and Indian who struggled, fought, made mistakes, loved and survived to build the foundations of the Golden State. * * *Elena Gabaldon, shaking with dread, knew Davis Bu...




  • A fast-moving, dramatic California saga about the people--Spanish, Anglo, Mexican and Indian who struggled, fought, made mistakes, loved and survived to build the foundations of the Golden State. ***Jennifer's father didn't say a word to her as they ...



  • Upon discovering her father, a Union doctor, is ill and imprisoned in Virginia's infamous Libby Prison, Barbara Thackery is determined to travel south from Ohio to bring him the medicine he needs. Her attempt to catch a train, however, results in her...





  • Gail Sarandon runs for her life after witnessing a murder. Found by Special Agent Jason Tregarth, the two are spotted by the murderer and pursued. After a car crash, Gail and Jason are taken in by the inhabitants of Dagon House who all have secrets o...





  • Ever been inside a state psychiatric hospital? That's an experience Sarah Goodrow Fenz had hoped never to repeat. Years ago, as a young woman, she'd been a student nurse taking her psychiatric affiliation at the state hospital. Now, matured and af...



  • Englishwoman Donella survives the Indian attack that kills her widowed father by hiding in a rowboat under her father’s green cloak.. She’s taken in by a Dutch family who rescues her, returning with them to Holland. Here she briefly meets an ...



  • : In 1803, the Louisiana Territory was in a turmoil. Spain was ceding this territory back to the France because the United States had offered to let them keep Florida. So the French flag was once again being raised to the joy of the Creoles. But T...



  • After Billy the Kid and Mark Halloran rescue what’s left of the Nesbitt family from an Apache attack in the New Mexico Territory, the fate of the young daughter and the teen-age boy are sealed. Tessa’s attracted to Mark and Ezra suffers a severe ...



  • Martha Jamieson is a psychiatric nurse who has been offered the position of caretaker for a troubled young woman on Vancouver Island. On the way she encounter with a bearded young man and receives a mysterious warning. Her destination, and an isl...



  • This is the story of a sixteen-year-old American girl who is orphaned when her father dies and she is sent to live with her English uncle. Unfortunately he falls out of favor with the king and is killed. This is where she meets Adrien who saves her f...



  • Alitha is aboard her father's ship, heading to the Sandwich Islands where she plans to marry Thomas, a minister. After surviving the wreck of her father's ship, Alitha is cast adrift on a uninhabited island off the Pacific coast. Rescued eventuall...



  • All America went crazy when gold was discovered in California in 1849, Which explains why the characters in Gold! act as they do. Life was far from normal in Hangtown or even San Francisco. Will Pamela and Selena, mother and daughter, ever find true ...



  • A beautiful young woman accompanies her soldier father to a fort in Indian country, where she in transformed from a naive, spoiled child into a woman capable of fighting for her life when she is taken prisoner by a renegade indian. Valerie falls in l...



  • All America went crazy when gold was discovered in California in 1849, Which explains why the characters in Gold! act as they do. Life was far from normal in Hangtown or even San Francisco. Will Pamela and Selena, mother and daughter, ever find true ...



  • Tina's life is turned upside down when she discovers she is not the free spirited gypsy girl she thought she was, but an heiress to a small fortune and a stately old mansion. But as she returns to her roots to claim her life and her inheritance, she ...



  • Jane Toombs takes the reader back to a time shortly after Confederation when two powerful families fought, loved and died for the land known as California. This fast moving drama about the people Spanish, Anglo, Mexican and Indian who built America'...



  • Martha Jamieson is a psychiatric nurse who has been offered the position of caretaker for a troubled young woman on Vancouver Island. On the way she encounter with a bearded young man and receives a mysterious warning. Her destination, and an islan...



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    A house built for love and cursed with death. Two children, one will live, one will die. Magic potions and secret rooms. Is there a curse or does evil reside with innocence. What is the real secret of Hallow House?...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jane Toombs has published 124 books.

Jane Toombs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Secret of the Orcas, was published in November 2017.

The first book by Jane Toombs, Tule Witch, was published in January 1973.

Yes. Jane Toombs has 8 series.