The Barbed Coil is a fantasy novel by J. V. Jones, published in 1997.

[1] Publishers Weekly described it as a "predictable hybrid of fantasy adventure and romance".

[2] The novel is set mostly in the Kingdom of Rhaize where the coming together of three individuals, Tessa McCamfrey, Ravis of Burano and Camron of Thorn, is about to unleash a series of events that culminate in the fight to save the kingdom from the armies of Garizon.

Tessa has suddenly been thrust from her life of telesales in present-day Earth into a world filled with danger where she meets Lord Ravis, who is himself delayed in a city which has been "marked for the kill".

Camron of Thorn is a man seeking revenge for his father's murder and demands that Lord Ravis help him to achieve it.