Tam’s Books & Novels

Tam Francis writes cross-genre fiction with a pen in one hand and a vintage cocktail in the other. She has taught swing dancing for fifteen years with her husband and is an avid collector of vintage sewing patterns, retro clothing, and antiques. All of which make appearances in her stories. Read one of her books & novels today.

Fall in Love on the Dance Floor with the Jitterbug Dress Series

~ The past doesn’t always stay in the past. Sometimes it comes to life on the dance floor ~ 

Enter a world of nostalgic fashion, classic cocktails, and dance halls. Follow two 18-year-old women (one in the 1940s and one in the 1990s) as they both experience the thrill of a vintage skirt wrapping around a warm thighs on the crowded dance floor. Each are moved to distraction by a dance partner expertly shifting his leg between hers, delicately pushing her into intricately guided steps.

THE GIRL IN THE JITTERBUG DRESS is the parallel story of two young women struggling with love, loss, and redemption, united across generations by a 1940’s swing dress. 

~ Return to the world of big band jazz, seedy nightclubs, and WWII. Experience the 1990s Swing Revival. ~

Follow the two women on their search for love, happiness, and identity. Go back to 1940’s Los Angeles and early wartime Vegas and hop the Atlantic in the 1990s when the underground swing revival became mainstream for a moment in time.

HOPS THE ATLANTIC continues the story of two women from two different eras, confronting life-altering choices about love, marriage, birth, and death, contrasted by 1940’s Vegas glamour and the seductive thrill of hopping across Europe.

~ Passion, Fashion, Danger and Romance, Every Dance has a Story~

Go back in time with Violet as she travels across war torn Europe as part of a USO Foxhole Tour enduring a rough transatlantic crossing, enemy fire, and a harrowing night with the Gestapo. Follow June as she battles a mysterious illness as Violet attempts to reach across generations and lead June out of the dark and into the light.

DANCES IN THE DARK, the last book in the Jitterbug Dress trilogy, illuminates the inner courage of two women in different eras fighting for their lives and loves.

Challenge your ideas about life, love, and death with these paranormal tales

~ 12 Scary stories with a touch of romance and a vintage twist. ~ 

A collection of short stories that range from horror/suspense/supernatural/romance and a traverse various time periods from modern to turn of the century. Each story is imbued with hallmarks of the era in which the tale is staged.  Your path will take you to old jails, cemeteries, dance halls, drive-in movies, and deserted offices where you will find complex characters you’ll want to follow if you’re brave enough.

GHOSTORIA boasts haunts and haints that populate a world of unrequited love, woe, and mystery. It will gnaw the corners of your mind and challenge your ideas about life, love, and death long after you leave.

~Fashion, Passion, Hot Jazz & Murder~

Meet Eduard Hall, an odd young man who just happens to fall in love with Mia Waverly, a beautiful ghost from the famous Waverly family, brutally murdered seventy years ago. Though her body was never found. With time running out and through extraordinary forces, they travel back in time to the night of the murders, setting off a chain of events that will change everything. If they can solve the mystery, they may save her and her family, but lose each other forever.

THE FLAPPER AFFAIR is the story of two young lovers crossed by time, space, and an unsolved murder.

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~ Music & Dance, Life & Love, Body & Soul:  The oldest stories ever told ~

Dance across not only the parquet floor, but across time eras and relationships. Navigate the lives of parents with small children who struggle keep dance in their lives, fall into the past and ride shotgun with a 1940s female musician, and whirl into a steamy nightclub where friendly dance moves can be mistaken for more. You’ll find more than one character who you can identify with their challenges.

SWING SHORTS explores the transformative, transcendent, and often poignant bond we share with music and dance.