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Jane Toombs
Also known as: Jane Ellen Jamison Jenke Toombs, Jane Toombs
Jane Ellen Jamison was born on 27 December 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA, daugther of Frances (Crooks) and James K. Jamison. When she was nine months old, her parents, both teachers, took her to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where she grew up most of her childhood. Her father played a key role in encouraging her as a writer, who was, himself, a history writer. She attended Michigan State University, College of the Sequoias and Northern Michigan University. She has been a registered nurse as well as a Cadet nurse. She had moved from upstate New York to Carson City, Nevada--the result of falling in love with a Nevadan. On 24 June 1949, she married Albert Jenke, they had five children: James, Ellen, Ann, Bobbie Jane, and Robert. On 2 March 1972, she married second time with John Edward Toombs. She is now a widow, and has returned "home" to live in the beautiful Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior--with the Viking from her past. She has five children, two stepchildren: Michael and Leslie, and seven grandchildren. Jane Ellen has published of numerous published books, both in paper and electronic, as well as some articles. She uses her maiden and married name: Ellen Jamison and Jane Toombs, but she has used a few pseudonyms: Olivia Sumner, and Jane Anderson, she also wrote as Diana Stuart in collaboration with Dee Stuart, and under the colective pseudonyms: Rebecca Drury, and Lee Willoughby Davis. Her writing covers various romance genres such as gothic, suspense, contemporary, historical, paranormal, mystery, fantasy and horror.
THE THICK LAYERS OF CLOUDS THAT HAD BLOW IN FROM the ocean overnight still hung in the sky when I woke early in the morning.
— from Midnight whispers
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Midnight whispers
HAPPY AND INNOCENT, DAWN'S DAUGHTER CHRISTIE HAS GROWN UP IN THE SAFEST, MOST LOVING OF HOMES ... Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove ... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome stepbrother. Then, in one harsh night, Christie's world is changed forever. She is shocked to discover her Uncle Philip's unbrotherly love for her mother, but even worse is the way he now looks at Christie, his eyes bright with tortured passion. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father, a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, who travels with her to The Meadows, the plantation where Christie was born. In Gavin's arms, in the first, tender moments of true love, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But The Meadows is blighted by its own dark secrets --- and all too soon Christie is torn from Gavin's embrace. Now as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past ... to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations ... (back cover)
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CENTURIES BEFORE THE FIRST WHITE MAN SET FOOT ON MOUNT SANGRE, THE ANCIENT ONES WARNED THAT SOMETHING SLEPT THERE, SOMETHING UNSPEAKABLY EVIL,,,AND YET, ONE TERRIBLE NIGHT, THAT EVIL WAS AWAKENED BY INNOCENTS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR SECRET CEREMONY WAS UNLEASHING. NOW, TEN YEARS LATER, VALORA ROLLAND HAD RETURNED TO HER FAMILY'S ANCESTRAL MANOR, AND TO THE BLACK MOUNTAIN THAT BROODED ABOVE IT, DETERMINED TO FACE THE PAST. AND THAT MEANT FACING LUIS REDHAWK, THE MAN WHOSE POWERS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, HAD DRAWN HER AND TERRIFIED HER FOR SO LONG... AND IT MEANT LEARNING, AT LAST, WHAT TIED THIS MAN TOT THE DARK FORCE THAT WAS ONCE AGAIN STIRRING RESTLESSLY AT THE PEAK OF MOUNT SANGRE.