Jennifer Ashley has written at least 107 books. Their most popular book is The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie with 45 saves with an average rating of 3.98⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Fiction, Romance, and England.
Adventurous, emotional, and mysterious are their most common moods.
Jennifer Ashley Gardner dreamed of being a published writer since the age of eight, writing love stories before she knew what romances were. She wrote fantasy and science fiction while in college, and after obtaining her master's degree in English literature, and a job in the real world, she decided to stop dreaming and try to be a full-time published author.
She published the first short story she ever submitted in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which gave her the false illusion that getting published was easy. After many more submissions and rejections, she sold her first novel in 2002, and made her second sale to Berkley with a series of historical mysteries. She writes historical, paranormal, and contemporary romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James. Her novels have won RWA's RITA award, the Golden Quill, RT Reviewer's Choice awards, and the Prism award, among others. Her novels have been also been translated into nearly a dozen European and Asian languages.
She has traveled and lived all over the world, including in Europe and Japan, and now resides in sunny Arizona with her soul mate, an avid reader himself, in a houseful of books. She enjoys writing and reading above all else, but her hobbies include cooking, hiking, playing flute and guitar, painting, and building miniature rooms and dollhouses.
#1 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2009 • 45 Readers • 320 pages • 4
#2 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2010 • 23 Readers • 338 pages • 3.4
#3 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2011 • 19 Readers • 311 pages • 3.7
#4 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2012 • 17 Readers • 320 pages • 3.1
2010 • 15 Readers • 304 pages • 2.7
#1 of 5 in Kat Holloway Mysteries
2018 • 15 Readers • 338 pages • 3
#4.5 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2012 • 12 Readers • 175 pages • 3
#7 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2014 • 12 Readers • 320 pages • 4.7
#5 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2012 • 11 Readers • 320 pages • 2.7
#5.5 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2013 • 8 Readers • 194 pages • 4.5
#6 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2013 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 5
#8.5 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2019 • 7 Readers • 306 pages • 3.5
#6.5 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2014 • 6 Readers • 160 pages
#9 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2017 • 5 Readers • 326 pages
#8 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2015 • 5 Readers • 359 pages • 3
#12 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2021 • 5 Readers • 343 pages
2011 • 5 Readers • 2.7
#3 of 3 in Regency Pirates
2004 • 4 Readers • 355 pages
4 Readers • 3
#4 of 5 in Kat Holloway Mysteries
2020 • 4 Readers • 320 pages
#10 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2019 • 3 Readers • 315 pages
2009 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 4
#11.5 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2019 • 3 Readers • 125 pages • 3
2014 • 2 Readers • 311 pages
#5 of 5 in Kat Holloway Mysteries
2021 • 2 Readers • 304 pages
2018 • 2 Readers • 309 pages
#11 of 12 in Mackenzies & McBrides
2019 • 2 Readers • 227 pages
2 Readers • 5
2015 • 2 Readers • 220 pages
2018 • 2 Readers • 329 pages
1 Reader
2016 • 1 Reader • 336 pages
1 Reader • 3
1 Reader
2011 • 1 Reader • 4
1 Reader
1 Reader
2011 • 1 Reader • 311 pages
1 Reader