Jess Alter

After author Jessica "Jess" Alter published the Dome Trilogy (An epic social science fiction trilogy filled with sex, tech, and firearms), she began the Cryptid Series. Combining cryptid lore and the modern scientific world with unexpected and thrilling results, 'Til Undeath Do Us Part was released on multiple ebook platforms. The second book in the Cryptid Series, Man and Brother, continued the adventure begun in 'Til Undeath Do Us Part.

Currently, Jess Alter is working with Longplay Games on books set in the Smugglers of Cygnus galaxy. Her latest book, Final Lap, is the first in this setting.

When she's not writing, Jess enjoys collecting folktales from around the world, baking homemade bread, making homemade ice cream, crocheting little monsters, and traveling thither and yon with her photographer spouse and their adventure dog.

Final Lap

"Ready"
Raised in a slow-paced family salvage operation, Neekoi Vole always dreamed of being a race pilot.

"Set"
She was determined to overcome the deep-seated bias that her people were slow and lazy. When an unexpected rescue operation lead to the opportunity of a lifetime, she refused to be held back.

"Go!"
Neekoi will risk it all for her chance to participate in the 100th year of the Cygnus Pizza Race Tournament. Can she overcome preconceptions about her species and claim a place on the podium in the Final Lap?

Final Lap is a story about facing adversity, systemic barriers, and great challenges with the help of friendship, determination, family, and hard work.

'Til Undeath Do Us Part

Volume I of the Cryptid series, ‘Til Undeath Do Us Part, launches an amazing journey into a world where all is not as it seems, and danger lurks for the unwary.

Psychologist Maggie Glass, Psychic Medium Edward Case, and Biologist Kalyani Sharma have a big problem.

In the real world, vampires don’t exist. Tell that to the one who’s looking for love in the Valley of the Sun and won’t be stopped until he bites the girl.

Never mind the chupacabra in the freezer at home.

Things just went from weird to paranormal.

Man and Brother

Volume II of the Cryptid series, Man and Brother, follows crypto-biologist Kalyani Sharma on her race to preserve endangered cryptid species while negotiating the perils of a newly awakened world.

Protecting and preserving cryptid species is the life's work of crypto-biologist Kalyani Sharma. Things get complicated in the forests of the Pacific Northwest after she's discovered by a legend.

When the tables turn, who will protect her?

Beneath a Sunless Sky

In search of a place to call home.  .  .

Ten years after child prodigy Remy had an accident which robbed her of a prestigious future, she walks the edge between life on Solaray-lit Level One and the gloom of the UnderDome, waiting for an opportunity to return to her place among the elite ruling class and put the nightmare of living as a sub-human behind her.

Remy’s life spirals from her control; she is condemned to live her life in the most reviled pit in the Dome world, known to be populated by brutish beasts too inhuman to even live on the edge of society. When she arrives, however, she discovers that humanity does not belong only to the citizen, life is not what she had believed it to be, and a threat more grave than the UnderDome, itself, lurks just beyond its shadows.

Nightmare Specters

“I’m going to destroy the Dome world.”

Fleeing from her lifelong home with a Freedomer terrorist into an unknown future, Remy arrives in Prime Settlement to find her dream of being an exalted and adored leader has suddenly come true.

In the second novel of the Dome trilogy, Remy is glorified as the long-awaited messianic leader of a devoutly religious populace and promises them the Dome above their heads as a homeland – a vow even their revered Messiah Ami was unable to fulfill. Vengeance turns to apprehension as Remy realizes that not everything is as simple as it seems and even the best intentions can produce devastating consequences.

Solaray Dawn

Forced from the shadows and into the Solaray light.  .  .

On Level One, every citizen wants to see the face of the most envied woman in the Dome world; UnderDome, two factions prepare for a war which will determine control of Central Computer and humanity's future. In the third and final installment of the Dome Trilogy, Remy reluctantly re-enters the Dome as a citizen, carefully shielded from public view - until her husband disappears under questionable circumstances.

Forced to dodge admirers and assassins, Remy realizes it is finally time to change the Dome world .  .  .  but at what price?