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# Jern Tonkoi

Atmospheric queer stories about love, secrets, and becoming known


## Author

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.


## Main Sections

- [Books](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/)
- [Series](https://jerntonkoi.com/series/)
- [About](https://jerntonkoi.com/about/)
- [Newsletter](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/)
- [Secret Freebies](https://jerntonkoi.com/secret-freebies/)

## Featured Books


- [In the Shadow of Death](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/in-the-shadow-of-death/) -- The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy. When Death finds the newly dead trapped in a Birmingham hospital, Tobias and Stuart's fragile love is tested by violence, grief, and the terrifying difference between care and control.

- [Judas and the Ghost](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/judas-and-the-ghost/) -- Memento Mori. When Tara Linskey's private image appears in public under a threat signed The Judgement, Detective Bria Friday follows a case built from shame, grief, access, coercion, and performance.

- [Lanta: Another Life](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/lanta/). One moonlit kiss on Ko Lanta binds Lester and Silom across years of family pressure, distance, silence, violence, and return in a bittersweet adult M/M romance about lost time and the life love can still claim.

- [Mermaid's Fury](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/mermaids-fury/) -- Treggan Bay Mysteries. When Noah Yalland and Leo Petit find shell offerings and hear an impossible scream in the Whealings, a dead newspaper file leads them towards a 1961 barn fire, a village curse, and a hidden family secret still shaping the living.

- [Metastable: Book One of Two](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-1/) -- Metastable. After Carter Brent's carefully managed friendship with Tan Naiya breaks open over a stolen year, the two men turn London labs, queer nightlife, and dangerous lessons in desire into the first unstable step toward choosing each other.

- [Metastable: Book Two of Two](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-2/) -- Metastable. After Carter and Tan's first unstable commitment breaks under the weight of shame, desire, and old damage, a year of separation leads them back through London, Bangkok Pride, queer community, and the hard work of choosing each other without making love another form of control.

- [Murder at Torre Manor](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-at-torre-manor/) -- Treggan Bay Mysteries. When Albert Hooper is found dead at Torre Manor with a crossbow bolt in his chest, Noah Yalland follows a tipped tumbler, fete photographs, property pressure, and village loyalties toward a secret someone is ready to kill for.

- [Murder in Treggan Bay](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-in-treggan-bay/) -- Treggan Bay Mysteries. When journalist Noah Yalland returns to Treggan Bay to deal with Grannie Maggie's Saltwind cottage, a developer's death in the village library pulls him through old records, local protest, and family secrets he was never meant to read.

- [The Boy the Wolves Took](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-the-wolves-took/) -- Memento Mori. Cassandra O'Neill's murder is solved on paper until suspicious money, broken laptop wreckage, and hidden evidence in a painting reopen the case.

- [The Boy with the Crow](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-with-the-crow/) -- Memento Mori. When Cassandra O'Neill is pulled from the River Lee, a guarded Cork coder with a skull above his monitor is dragged into police pressure, old guilt, explicit intimacy, and an obsession that will not stay buried.

- [The Curse of Time](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-curse-of-time/) -- The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy. When Time cheats and endings break, Tobias hears the Universe calling him home, and the family around him must turn love into action before the clock finishes its work.

- [The Day Music Died](https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-day-music-died/) -- The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy. When the world forgets music, a silent guitar and an impossible stranger draw Tobias into a queer speculative romance about grief, memory, desire, and bringing sound back to life.


## Agent Resources

- [Short agent index](https://jerntonkoi.com/llms.txt)
- [Full agent index](https://jerntonkoi.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Sitemap](https://jerntonkoi.com/sitemap.xml)

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