Jean Brooks-Janowiak, born in 1955, wrote SFF and romance in the 1980s and used the pseudonyms Valerie Vayle and Anne Merton Abbey. She grew up in Omaha Nebraska and has worked as an auto body technician.
Winter Lord by Jean Brooks-Janowiak
Winter Lord (1983) was an impulse Alibris buy for me. Under a different name, Jean Brooks-Janowiak wrote a Tudor romance that’s been one of my comfort reads since I first read it in high school. That book had an eerie little vein of the supernatural running through it, so when I learned that Brooks-Janowiak had also written a fantasy novel, I decided to check it out. What with it being an earlier book, in a different genre, and sporting a rather uninformative cover,
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