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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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Current Releases...
Fireside (January 2009)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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