Jessica Inclan

Jessica Inclan writes novels that combine romance with speculative questions about identity, belonging, and unusual human abilities. Being with Him begins a trilogy with San Francisco artist Mila Adams and financier Garrick McClellan. Their awkward first meeting reveals that each can alter time and that both came from the distant world of Cygiria. As they connect with other displaced Cygirians, they also face the force that destroyed their home and threatens its survivors. Zebra published the first edition in 2008 under the byline Jessica Inclan. The author also publishes as Jessica Barksdale Inclán and has worked across fiction, poetry, teaching, and literary editing. Being with Him enlarges a familiar question about compatibility through its science-fiction premise: Mila and Garrick must understand why their abilities complement one another before they can decide what their bond requires. Their private search for trust becomes part of a broader story about exile, chosen community, shared memory, and the responsibilities that accompany extraordinary power.