Alicia Jeanne

My name is Alicia Jeanne Dugan, and I write in two genres: High Fantasy, and Dark Fantasy Romance.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) writing in two different genres meant I needed to publish under two different names.

My high fantasy books, including GoulCrest and Vuthrie, are published under Alicia Jeanne. These books typically focus on adventure and found family. If there is any romance in these books, it is closed door romance and will always be a side plot as opposed to a main focus.

My dark romance fantasy books are published under A. J. Dugan, and typically focus on one couple at a time as they are thrust (pun intended) into high stakes situations where they need to rely on each other to resolve them. These books will have romance as a focal point, and the only closed door will be the one the couple accidentally slams into as they make their way to a bed.

Whether you found me through Alicia Jeanne or A. J. Dugan, I am happy you are here, and I wish you happy reading!

A dragon’s scale, a tile from the abandoned temple, an arrow from the Rakaron Kingdom, a writ of a noble, and a flower from the Field of Death. These are the items the king demands of competitors in the GoulCrest Games, and its victors will be awarded a prize most Vestovians can only dream of: lordship.

For Pria, exiled from her traditionalist family of nomadic warriors, the GoulCrest Games are a chance to prove she is the best fighter Rancor Clan has ever produced. For Tayla, a starving peasant girl, they are a chance to find the safety and comfort she was denied in childhood. For Ranto, a rebel-scholar cast out of the dwarven Undergrounds, they are a chance to honor the memory of his beloved. And for Jaze, a half-Rakaron wanderer, they are a chance to finally find acceptance.

Though their bond begins shakily and is riddled with mistrust, these four black sheep of their respective communities eventually tighten into a found family prepared to face the perils of the Games—and, eventually, of GoulCrest itself.