You think this is an awesome gift? Wait until you hear the catch! Most pathfinders don't make it to adulthood. He can sense people's thoughts, the past and the future. Here he learns something that turns his life upside down. But why? Why him?īefore he can even attempt to flee to the streets again, Shai's brought into The Agency, with its clinical white rooms. The 'sweepers' of The Agency have tracked him down. Panic rushes through him when he realizes: this is no ordinary flirt. Then one fatal night, Shai's working in the club when he locks eyes with a girl. Especially now that he has finally managed to get a job in a nightclub, he's not willing to endanger his hard fought securities in a city in which The Agency and several ruthless syndicates wreak havoc, in a constant battle for territory and power. Which is exactly what the slender, green eyed Shai does. You make sure to fly under everyone's radar. What would you do when you've been beaten to pulp a little too often during the 16 years you spent in orphanages and on the streets? She's endlessly fascinated by just about everything she sees around her and is constantly looking for new ways to learn and improve her knowledge of the world. She speaks a little bit of French, a little bit of American Sign Language, a little bit of Japanese, but she's not really fluent in any of them (although she's trying!).

Outside of writing, her interests include studying foreign languages, riding horses, practicing martial arts, and collecting medieval weaponry. Characters are the most interesting when they've had all of the baggage, all of their many masks, stripped away from them and they're left with nothing but the purest core of who and what they are. She believes that is the main reason why she tends to write stories with a darker edge to them. She feels there is something enormously satisfying about putting a character through intense physical and emotional hardship, and then carrying him or her through out the other side. She realized at a young age that she was attracted to the darker side of life in the fictional stories she felt compelled to write. Over the years she has written erotic short stories and novels in genres ranging from science fiction/fantasy to gothic horror to modern detective mysteries.

She got her start in the profession writing slash fanfiction, where she has published numerous stories under the pen-name Rushlight.

Jaken has been writing homoerotic fiction for more than ten years.

Pathfinder by J.A. Jaken