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Cate Culpepper

Cate Culpepper

Cate Culpepper  is a 2005 & 2008 Golden Crown Literary Society Award Winner in the SCI-FI/FANTASY category. She grew up in southern New Mexico, where she served as the state lesbian for several years, before moving to the Pacific Northwest almost twenty years ago. She now resides in Seattle with her faithful sidekick, Kirby, Warrior Westie. Cate supervises a housing program for homeless young gay adults. She proudly cites Xena: Warrior Princess as a much-loved inspiration for the strong women she portrays in her original fiction.

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Fireside (January 2009)

 

Fireside by Cate Culpepper

Excerpt

Mac closed her eyes because that’s how one traditionally prepared for prayer, and she was in need of divine intervention. A hiccup of laughter almost bubbled out of her. What kind of merciful goddess would cast her, shirtless and prostrate before a roaring fire on a stormy night, subject to the tender ministrations of the straightest woman on the eastern seaboard? 

 

Mac is a new therapist at Fireside, a domestic violence shelter in rural Virginia. Mac hopes to find answers here—answers for the women and children she works with, and to her own lifelong restlessness. Perhaps she’ll even learn the identity of the small ghost who’s been following her all her life.  

 

Abby is the shelter’s doctor—irresistibly alluring, and straight as a stick. Mac and Abby, devoted to those they serve, discover equal passion for each other while fighting to protect all they love.  

 

Fireside is a story of love, friendship, healing, and laying our ghosts to rest at last.

Tristaine Series

The Clinic

 

 

 

 

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The Clinic, 2ed. Aided by a haunted young City medic, the descendents of an ancient warrior tribe fight for their freedom.

 

Brenna's new duties as a Clinic medic include monitoring the health of political prisoners after they've been "interrogated."  The extreme measures employed by Caster, the Clinic's director, are not supposed to distress Brenna—any such humanistic concerns have long been dismissed by the tyrannical City Government. But Brenna finds herself deeply conflicted by her first patient, Jesstin, a wild and rebellious warrior reputed to be descended from ancient Amazons. Through Jess, she learns of another way of life in the Amazon village of Tristaine, where freedom and passion are prized more highly than political power.

As Caster's methods grow increasingly brutal, Brenna fears for Jess's life, and struggles with the deepening bond between them.  Soon she faces a critical choice, and a harrowing fight for survival.

Book 1 in the Tristaine Series

Battle for Tristaine

 

 

 

Excerpt

Battle for Tristaine, 2ed.  After a harrowing escape from the City's prison, new lovers Brenna and the Amazon Jesstin are thrown into a battle that will determine the fate of their entire world. 

While Brenna struggles to find her place in the clan and the love between her and Jess grows, Tristaine is threatened with destruction when a crucial betrayal brings the City soldiers down upon the village. 

Brenna's emerging psychic gifts aid Jess and her warriors in a final bloody confrontation against the forces bent on destroying the Amazon way of life.

Book 2 in the Tristaine Series

Tristaine Rises

 

 

 

Excerpt

Tristaine Rises. In their new mountain stronghold, a battle rages for the lives and souls of the Amazons of Tristaine. 

While Jess and her warriors fight a ghostly army, their weakened leader, Shann, must find a way to defeat a powerful demon queen. Shann’s only hope is to reveal long-held secrets that will change Brenna and Jess’s life forever. The Thesmephorian moon rises over the last bloody confrontation between two great Amazon tribes—the living and the dead—and when the sun dawns, only one queen rules the village.

Book 3 in the Tristaine Series

Queens of Tristaine

 

 

 

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Queens of Tristaine. Tristaine’s hard-won peace is shattered when a deadly plague threatens to devastate the Amazon clan.  Their only hope for a cure lies in the sinister laboratories of the City Clinic.  To save the sisters they love, Jess and Brenna must leave their mountain village and return to the place of their nightmares—the malevolent facility that almost cost them their lives.  The danger they face is harrowing, the stakes enormous…and they have precious little time.

Book 4 in the Tristaine Series

2008 Lesbian Speculative Fiction GCLS Award Winner

Cate can be contacted at CateCulpepper

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