Joely Sue Burkhart

Joely always has her nose buried in a book, especially one with mythology, fairy tales, and romance. She, her husband, and their three monsters live in Missouri. By day, she’s a computer programmer with a Masters of Science degree in Mathematics. When night falls, she bespells the monsters so she can write. Read more about her current projects at her blog.

Survive My Fire

Chanda, cursed to dragon form for her sins by She Who Hung the Moon, and Jalan, the Krait warrior who is her perfect match, must win an impossible battle. Jalan must love her…and then kill her. She must love him…and die.

This exciting tale is set in a world unlike any other. Burkhart’s world-building skills are first rate, and she has story-telling skills to match. As one reviewer put it, “Dragons do it hotter.” In Burkhart’s world, they most certainly do.

The Fire Within

Return to the Keldari. Eleni is fighting for her life and her sanity in the Green Lands. She’s so desperate, she believes barbaric Keldar is her only hope. Having convinced her brother he should send her as an ambassador, she allows herself to be captured and sold to the Keldari warrior Zahar.

Zahak has plans for Eleni. Her unique bloodline means she can appear to fulfill a prophecy that will make the man who holds her the ruler of all of Keldar; so he’s going to give her to his brother.

The gods have other plans for Eleni and Zahak; plans that may not leave them alive at the end.

The Rose of Shanhasson

In this full-length novel, Joely Sue Burkhart returns to the world of the Keldari, to Shanhasson, the Green Lands.

Shannari is destined to unite the Green Lands. All she has to do is survive a battle with a barbarian, marry the barbarian, escape the very sexy barbarian and his elite warrior band, kill her former fiance, and make it home in one piece.

The men in Shannari’s life don’t take no for an answer easily, and she’s definitely worth fighting for. She doesn’t believe in love with good reason–her last lover tried to kill her at a most inopportune time. It’s a good thing she has fast reflexes, even when she’s distracted. Now Rhaekhar has to convince her that his love is worth fighting for, and keep her alive while doing it.

Beautiful Death

This very sexy novel is the first in Joely Sue Burkhart’s Mythomorphoses series.

Humanity has been decimated by by an alien virus. Some have become monsters, a few have remained human, and far too many are dead. A vaccine saves a remnant of humanity and they begin to rebuild, taking on new names to represent their new lives and their hope of a better future.

Isabella Thanatos, Beautiful Death to the people of New Olympia, is a killing machine who has dedicated her life to protecting her people. Athens, her city, is the jewel in the crown of the civilization they’ve built off of the ruins of their old lives and she won’t let any monster run loose in her city except Hades, the seductively beautiful alien whose people loosed the virus on humanity and caused their ruin. He is a welcome visitor and sits on the city council–but not by her choice. He missed his opportunity to kill her long ago, but she won’t miss hers.

When Isabella discovers she’s been mysteriously contaminated with the virus, she knows she should kill herself before she becomes the very thing she hates. Fearing for her people but desperate to find out how and why she was contaminated before she has to die, Isabella runs to the only one who can help her, the monster Hades.

Outside the city she discovers that everything she was taught is a lie. There is no chaos, the contaminated live in harmony with humans, what Hades wants to do to her–with her–doesn’t include death, and the city she loves is controlled by a monster in the guise of a man.