Jern Tonkoi

Atmospheric queer stories about love, secrets, and becoming known

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Mermaid's Fury is out now

Return to Treggan Bay for shell offerings, old wells, a dead newspaper file, and the truth behind the 1961 fire the village blamed on a mermaid.

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Three Memento Mori trilogy covers, with The Boy with the Crow in front.

Memento Mori

Memento Mori is a completed queer psychological crime trilogy about murder, evidence, obsession, and the dangerous places love can go when people mistake possession for care.
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Two-book cover stack for the Metastable series by Jern Tonkoi, showing Book One in front and Book Two behind.

Metastable

Carter Brent and Tan Naiya have been entangled for years: school, lockdown, university, a stolen year, and everything neither of them could safely name. Metastable follows that pressure until friendship becomes desire, desire becomes danger, and care has to become more honest than control.
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Treggan Bay Mysteries

Welcome to Treggan Bay: a fictional South Devon village of cottages, cafes, watchmen, manor houses, and secrets that have survived because everyone knows when to look away.
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About Jern Tonkoi

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Jern Tonkoi writes atmospheric queer fiction about love, secrets, memory, and the strange courage of being known. Her books move between Devon coast mysteries, Cork psychological crime, speculative romance, gothic tenderness, and contemporary M/M romance, but they keep returning to characters under pressure: people carrying grief, desire, guilt, old histories, and the difficult hope of telling the truth.

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