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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2015
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Bulari Saga

1 - Double Edged (May-2019)
2 - Crossfire (Jun-2019)
3 - Pressure Point (Sep-2019)
4 - Heat Death (Mar-2020)
5 - Kill Shot (Sep-2020)

A Durga System Novella

1 - Starfall (Jan-2017)
2 - Negative Return (Jun-2017)
3 - Deviant Flux (Mar-2019)

Nanshe Chronicles

1 - Ghost Pirate Gambit (May-2022)
2 - Blood River Blues (Jul-2022)
3 - Cursed Saint Caper (Aug-2022)
4 - Star Train Tango (Jun-2023)
Artemis City Shuffle (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • When a resurrection goes awry in a cold Seattle cemetery, mother-of-three Patricia Ramos-Waites finds herself possessed by the ghost of her sister’s dead lover. God forbid her only problem be sharing her body with Dead Marco. Yesterday Patricia’s...



  • A headstrong teenager. A world-weary crime lord. A dangerous prison break.Starla Dusai is fifteen, deaf -- and being held as an enemy combatant by the Indiran Alliance. Willem Jaantzen is a notorious crime lord about to end a fearsome vendetta -- ...



  • Plan A is out. Plan B is impossible. And Plan C is definitely gonna get him killed.

    Manu Juric is a mediocre bounty hunter. But he’s damn good at reading people and creating unexpected explosions -- and that can take you a long way in this busi...



  • Worried about the state of business during the zombie apocalypse? You're not alone. In my quest to document our new reality, I've spent the past year collecting stellar examples of how everyday businesspeople like you and me are keeping their ...



  • She thought nothing could come between herself and her new family. She was wrong.It’s been five years since Starla Dusai’s home station was destroyed by the Alliance, and she’s spent every minute searching for evidence that she wasn’t the onl...



  • The line between friend and foe is getting blurry--and that's where the fun begins.Businesman Willem Jaantzen has spent decades trying to shake the notorious reputation he gained from his early days surviving on the streets. He’s finally been accep...



  • This is an anthology. It is not literary, as much as the cover might suggest otherwise. It's not even a themed anthology. However, it definitely staggers across all sorts of interstitial slipstreamed speculative fringes. It's got -- well, look. There...



  • Trouble is dead. Long live trouble.Killing the leader of a violent cult was supposed to make the city a safer place, but instead it created a power imbalance that’s left a deadly war raging in the streets of Bulari. When Willem Jaantzen is approach...



  • Peace demands its price in blood.Jaantzen may have brought stability to the city of Bulari, but not everyone’s grateful. Allegiances are shifting sand, and he’s made a miscalculation that earned him a deadly new enemy -- one who plays a vicious...






  • When a resurrection goes awry in a cold Seattle cemetery, mother-of-three Patricia Ramos-Waites finds herself possessed by the ghost of her sister's dead lover.

    God forbid her only problem be sharing her body with Dead Marco. Yesterday Patri...



  • The eighteenth Tarot card is the Moon, and those who raise their arms to her know she offers Mercy and Severity in equal measure. This is the great river at night, where wolves howl and all doors are open. All futures are possible, and every truth...



  • An ancient secret. A ruthless enemy. A deadly choice.

    Willem Jaantzen and his crew are down but not out. And what Starla Dusai discovers in the desert is about to change the course of human history.

    The Bulari Saga series is part of Jessie Kwakâ€...



  • The final chapter of the Bulari Saga.Willem Jaantzen never wanted fame, he never wanted notoriety. All he's ever wanted is to keep the people he loves safe, but now the fate of Bulari - and the rest of humanity - rests on his shoulders. And he has on...



  • There are four aspects of the eternal spark: the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. These are the ways that hope manifests. These are the ways we keep ourselves engaged. These are the ways by which we learn how to fight mons...



  • Haunted space stations? Puzzling totems? Cursed relics? No job's too bizarre for the crew of the Nanshe.Lasadi doesn't like strangers on her ship, but she'll need a bigger crew if she's going to steal a mysterious artifact from a dead pirate's long-l...



  • An epic race to an enigmatic treasure? The Nanshe's on it.When a ghost from Lasadi's past hires the crew of the Nanshe to find a crashed plane with mysterious origins, they take the job despite the troubling client. The good news? The cover story is ...



  • Playing bodyguard for a grandma vacationing in Artemis City should be an easy day's work for someone with Raj Demetriou's skill set—but as the bullets begin to fly, Raj is starting to think he picked the wrong old lady to guard today. Lasa...



  • Wanted: a cursed saint's relics. Easy money, right?Helping a holy order find a missing sister should be a simple enough job—and Ruby owes the Aymaya Apostles everything after they took her and her brother in as children.Simple enough, until th...



  • Lasadi doesn't know how anyone manages to survive out here in the black, given that the collection of space stations, asteroid colonies, dwarf planets, and mining claims in Durga's Belt is less a society and more a community of uneasy, suspicious nei...






  • It's the event of the generation, the century, the millennium: the lowest of low tides laying bare the original streets of Tarry-by-the-Sea for the first time in living memory. Sea creatures splash for cover as the city's human residents descend for ...



  • Welcome to CROOKED V.3! This third installment in the Crooked anthology series brings you ten more stories of space crime. The goal of the Crooked anthology series is to introduce you, the reader, to authors who are currently writing sci-fi crime sto...



  • Welcome to Bulari!The Bulari Saga Travel Guide is a collection of short stories, essays, alternate point-of-view scenes, recipes (recipes!) and more goodies from the world of the Bulari Saga. Join fan-favorite characters on new adventures, learn more...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jessie Kwak has published 22 books.

Jessie Kwak does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bulari Saga Travel Guide, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Jessie Kwak, Shifting Borders, was published in December 2015.

Yes. Jessie Kwak has 3 series.