Meet Jenna Kernan

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I write totally gripping crime thrillers and unsettling domestic suspense.

Before turning to thrillers, I wrote romantic suspense, Western historical and dark paranormal romance. All my romances have loads of action, adventure, and heat!

I've written over 40 books, been nominated twice for Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion, the RITA and won the Book Buyers Best Award. My debut thriller, A Killer’s Daughter, won the bronze medal for popular fiction from the 2021 Florida Book Awards.

They even gave me a medal to prove it!

And, in 2023, they gave me another one! This time the gold medal in the popular fiction category for The Ex-Wives.

My Agent Nadine Finch series so far includes are A Killer’s Daughter and The Hunted Girls. Both riveting thrillers with twisty endings.

For domestic thriller look for The Adoption, The Ex-wives and The Nurse.

My western historical romance Trail Blazer and romantic suspense PROTECTORS books are among my most popular series.  

Fast reads, really fast.

Like rich, world-building stories filled with supernatural heroes and heart-racing romance? Try my paranormal romance series -- Enemy Soulmates starting with Captured by the Beast, which was inspired by Lakota mythology.

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I was born in the Leatherstocking Region of Upstate New York, but a job offer brought me down from the mountains to the Hudson Valley just north of New York City where I lived and worked for thirty years, writing when I could. In 2015, I left that position to write full-time.

Some of my job is the fun stuff, getting out and meeting readers and authors. Going to industry parties and lunching with editors and agents feels a little like Cinderella time – you know, the hours between 8 and Midnight, which are not remotely like the other twenty hours of the day. Meeting my readers really is the best part of my job.

I’m an outdoors kind of gal. So, if you can do it outside, I usually enjoy it, with the notable exception of golf (too organized and too frustrating) and skiing (too dangerous and too dangerous).

I’m a rock hound, fossil hunter, and gold prospector.  

What’s my best find? The fossilized bear tooth, some nice Alaskan gold nuggets and a one carat blue sapphire I found in Montana.

In 2016, my husband and I moved to sunny Florida where I am pursuing my writing within the sound of the surf.

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 Thanks for stopping by. And as always…enjoy the adventure!

TRIVIA

• Has advanced scuba certification

• Recently obtained a saltwater fishing license and fishing pole

• Has broken only one bone – her sister’s collarbone

• Is a sissy when it comes to horror fliks

• Is the only one of four kids named by her father

• Worked waiting tables in a greasy spoon during the graveyard shift

• Plays the ukulele and has four so far!

• Has seen every episode of Star Trek and Bonanza

• Scored 98 on a high school chemistry regent test and a 78 on geometry in the same year

• One of a family of six, all redheads

For Jenna Kernan's FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), and Media Kit at the bottom of her contact page

Seven things About Jenna Kernan - article from Female First magazine, 02/11/2021 - Tap here for PDF version