J.E.M. Connelly is a librarian, current private teacher, and a writer writing fantasy novels with an interest in strong characters and epic worlds. She self-publishes on Kindle for the satisfaction of having her books on her shelf but keeps them on Amazon for curious readers.
The Indru’shy’ev is set in a complex world of queens and heroes, warriors and lovers, scholars and other powerful people spanning over 2200 years and across a universe. Some of the novels can stand alone such as The Falconlord’s Daughter or The Radiael, while others interconnect with one another. All eight of the novels are available in paperback on Amazon.com.
For lighter fare, enjoy the books of the Il-monstri series! This series was a pandemic experiment in genre writing first of romance and pandemic prohibited experiences, and the second, in mystery writing. The fun part of each are the sea monsters. Both are currently available on Amazon.com
Life in Ambar: Volume 1
Sarras has spend her young life in the small but perfect world her mother built for her family. However, as she discovers and develops her own control over the powers of ambar manipulation she goes further away from home and into dangers she could not have imagined were waiting for her while gathering around her powerful friends, allies, and enemies.
The Falconlord’s Daughter: Volume 2
The Falconlord’s daughter was promised a life she never received, she was given a life she could never survive and she was tasked with doing the impossible. When Eirhynne, muse of art, beloved sister, new wife, and protected Peregriness, woke up alive it was at the very end of the world, death had come over her and her family and their nation leaving only a few heartbroken souls behind to piece it all back together. When Ascheya met the elusive hero Sarras she knew she had finally met someone who could help her reclaim her birthright. All she had to do was tell the story of the last year of her homeland and of the people who fell and the people who flew. To tell of a world she never saw with her own eyes, one of masks and bird-gods, of parties and sisters, one of new found loves and devastating losses, of people she could never know but would always long for. She owed that world her life and she would go to the ends of the world to see it restored.
The Queens’ Agents: Indru’shy’ev Three
The myth of the Indru’shy’ev can be as damaging and infectious as a virus and as enticing as great power. There are those on the continent even now gathering to turn that power to their own advantage while few are even aware they are doing so and fewer still strong enough to defeat them and their growing menace.
For an more authentic experience a reader may proceed to what is nominally the fourth volume and its two sequels. Or they might proceed to the Indrus Wars and return to the fourth volume when it feels best. One might read The Radiael at any time, as well, but a more authentic read would be well after one started into The Indrus Wars. The reader will know what is best.
Mirane and Xylvan Journal One: Indru’shy’ev Four
Xylvan writes his most private thoughts and memories of his life with his love and these journals become the bases of healing for his heartbroken child. In the first of four journals Xylvan writes of his time pursuing her across a hostile country as she searches for her own redemption and coming to peace with her warrior past.
Mirane and Xylvan Journal Two: Indru’shy’ev Five
Xylvan brings his beloved home to the glamorous city of M’harian where their futures span out ahead of them promising them a long, loving life but as much as they embrace the Sian world, the old world of Gryth finds it too difficult to let them go.
Mirane and Xylvan Journals Three and Four: Indru’shy’ev Six
As Xylvan’s journals wind to their ultimate conclusion the lovers are closer together than ever but can that sustain them through the coming danger and the secrets that rise from the depths.
The Radiael: Indru’shy’ev Seven
Long buried and long forgotten the box containing journals and ephemera of a long dead Queen and her closest allies emerges from the deepest archives of the Sian temple. Its first readers in millennia read through the words of those who challenged power, enthralled gods, incited war, and founded a dynasty. The Radiael is book seven of the Indru’shy’ev but can be read as a stand-alone or the first book of the series.
Indrus Wars: The Final Indru’shy’ev
Queen Aejan did not get to the throne through softness or luck, she achieved the throne through her intelligence, her skills, her friends, her family, her willpower and now every last ounce of that will be required of her and everyone she is closest to as the final volume of the Indru’shy’ev challenges everything Sarras, Sparr’ev, Mirane, Xylvan, Aejan, ‘Quila, Ninian, Vivace, and all those who came before them, knows is possible.
The Indru'shy'ev 