J Leigh Bailey: 12 books

Joey misses the dreaded “Sweet Sixteen And Never Been Kissed” stigma by minutes. The night before his birthday, a mysterious boy kisses him in the Halloween corn maze. Thanks to the darkness and shadows, he has no idea who the anonymous kisser is. He whittles the list down to two possibilities....

A modern-day gay YA retelling of the Puss in Boots fairy tale, set in Chicago. An exotic stranger helps insecure Charlie find his way out of the city at night, and leads him to his inner bad-ass.

Seventeen-year-old Connor works his butt off to maintain the golden-boy persona he’s created. He has the grades, the extracurriculars, the athletics, and a part-time job at his dad’s shop… every detail specifically chosen to ensure the college scholarships he needs to get the hell out of the...

A Shifter U Tale Long nights lead to intrigue… and infatuation.  Chronically ill with a mysterious condition, Yusuf “Joey” Franke escapes his smothering family and doctors by moving halfway across the country to enroll in Cody College. Not long after arriving on campus, some of...

What's life without a little risk? Or a lot of risk, if you're Sebastian Carlisle. He'll never live up to the legacy of his dead brother, so why try? Being the wild child in a family of stuck-up rich snobs suits him just fine. Until he meets Micah Burke, and everything changes. Micah's...

Bradley Greene's family all but discarded him when his brother caught him fooling around with another boy. Now Bradley has seventeen dollars and a gas card, and he's sleeping in his car. He’s an emotional mess and if he doesn't land a job soon, he's up the proverbial creek. Danny Ortega can...

A Shifter U Tale A smitten coyote isn’t the only one stalking Buffalo Bill.  A buffalo walks into a cafe. Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but for coyote shifter Donnie Granger, it’s the beginning of an obsession. Donnie is a little hyperactive and a lot distractible, except...

Recent college grad Aaron Elliott is a pro when it comes to avoiding conflict. So when he hears his mother and stepfather plan to sell the family's rambling summer retreat, it takes everything in him to object. The lake house is where he feels closest to his late father. It's where he fell in love...

A Shifter U Tale A legendary love. Ornithology professor Simon Coleman’s reputation is at risk, and the only way to save his name is to prove thunderbirds are more than creatures of Native American myth. Grad student and part-time barista Ford Whitney has a lot on his plate, but it’s...

A Shifter U Tale Outfoxing their enemies will be a bear of a task.  Aspiring journalist and fox shifter David ends up with a target on his back after hacking the Moreau Initiative, the shifter world’s greatest enemy. But he won’t let that stop him from the campus tour road trip...

Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Martin knows what they say about good intentions, and he finds out it’s all true. After all, he had the best of intentions when he stepped in to stop a friend from making a terrible mistake, but when he’s caught with his friend’s gun, no one believes him. As punishment,...

À dix-sept ans, Connor travaille dur pour conserver l’image de garçon parfait qu’il s’est créée. Il a de bonnes notes, des activités extra-scolaires, des réussites sportives, la parfaite petite amie, et un travail à mi-temps dans le magasin de son père. Tous ces détails lui assurent...