Jen Gardner
Fantasy and Romance Author
Jen is a fantasy and romance author based in North Carolina. She loves writing fast-paced adventures with strong romantic elements. She is represented by Kathleen Foxx at The Rights Factory.
PROJECTS
Fantasy Works
Evie and Nico from The Time Caper
Artwork by Marina Charalambides / marinacharalambides.com
THE TIME CAPER
Adult Low Fantasy Novel with Strong Romantic Elements / 87k Words
Status: On Submission Now
Phantasma x The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
In this 1920s-inspired fantasy, set against the backdrop of decadent speakeasies and bootlegged champagne, a thief with the ability to freeze time teams up with her rival, who is immune to her magic, to stop an ancient box from destroying the city and her chance at freedom.
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TROPES: Dark Family Secrets, Generational Curses, Forbidden Love, and There's Only One Cot
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ECHOES IN THE VEIL
Adult Low Fantasy Novel
Status: Drafting
A medium channels a residual haunting while searching for lost treasure, but gets trapped in a time loop. She is transported to a doomed train ride from the past, where she must battle memory loss to return her and her fated love to her own timeline before the train crashes and kills them both.
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VIBES: Reincarnation, Fated Love, Parlor-room Seances In The Victorian Era
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WHAT LIES BENEATH THE WAVES
Adult Low Fantasy Novel
Status: Outlining
A widow fights to stay out of debtor's prison due to the crimes of her late husband by taking a job offer from a timid librarian to stop a sea witch's curse before it reaches land.
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VIBES: Windswept Town on a Barrier Island, Shipwrecks and Ghosts, and Cities Lost to the Deep
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HARD-HEARTED IN HERMOSA SPRINGS
Adult Low Fantasy Novel
Status: Outlining
A down-on-her luck journalist is accused of stealing a valuable crystal and is given one week to find it or go to jail. In her quest to clear her name, she discovers that the crystal is actually a cursed human heart that belongs to the real thief—the reclusive historian she’s asked for help.
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VIBES: Endless Forests, Enchanted Hot Springs, a Remote Town Cut Off from the World, Legends of an Old Forest God that Feeds Off the Broken-hearted
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Contemporary Romance Works
Bridges and Buttercream
Adult Romantic Comedy
83k Words
Status: Drafted / In Editing
Love, Theoretically x Just For The Summer
An introverted pastry chef is trying to save his grandma’s bakery. He is paired with a structural engineer, who's looking to salvage her own career, on a televised extreme baking competition, where contestants recreate monster-sized replicas of famous landmarks in hopes of winning a million-dollar prize.
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TROPES: Enemies to Lovers, Slow-burn Romance, and Fake Dating
Blizzards And Love And Other Unexpected Things
Adult Contemporary Romance
Status: Outlining
A grumpy tow truck driver battles blizzards and her severe social anxiety to help a fun-loving, stranded motorist get to his brother’s New Year’s Eve wedding in three days’ time.
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TROPES: Grumpy / Sunshine, Forced Proximity, and Impossible Love
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SOCIAL MEDIA & CONTACT
For all rights and media inquiries, please contact Kathleen Foxx at The Rights Factory. Otherwise, you can connect with Jen on X @jgardnerwrites.