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As winter closes in on
Kirsten Swenson's hometown of Sedona, Arizona, and the world moves toward the
solstice, strange forces begin to converge on the quiet desert city, seeking to
bring about the destruction of everything she knows and loves.
Desperate to save her
friends and family, Kirsten accepts the assistance of Martin Jones, a
mysterious Man in Black who turns out to be far more than he seems. He helps to
awaken the powers that have lain dormant within her…and also compels her to
expose the shocking secrets buried in her past. But Kirsten soon learns
that giving her heart might not be enough, and that the confrontation with the
alien forces may demand her to make the ultimate sacrifice.
About Christine Pope
A native of Southern California, Christine Pope has been
writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona
typewriter back in the sixth grade. Her short fiction has appeared in Astonishing Adventures,
Luna Station Quarterly,
and the journal of dark fiction, Dark Valentine. Two of her short stories have been nominated
for the Pushcart Prize.
Her first published novel was Fringe Benefits, a contemporary
romance released by Pink Petal Books in April 2010. Next up was a paranormal
novella, Playing With
Fire, which was published in August 2010. In December 2010, Sympathy for the Devil,
a paranormal romance novel, was released.
In 2011, Ms. Pope decided to strike out on her own as
a self-published author, giving herself more freedom to explore a variety of
genres. Her first self-published work, Breath of Life (June 2011), is a novella that takes the
classic Beauty and the Beast story and sets it in a far-future Gaian (Earth)
colony where the "beauty" is a colonist's daughter and the
"beast" her family's alien neighbor. That book was quickly followed
by Bad Vibrations (July 2011), a fast-paced but
lighthearted paranormal romantic suspense novel with alien conspiracies,
government cover-ups, and a hunky ufologist hero.
Releases for 2012 included No Return, a contemporary
retelling of the Phantom of the Opera story; Heart of Gold, a steampunk
adventure romance; Blood
Will Tell, a space opera/science fiction romance set in the same
universe as Breath of
Life; All
Fall Down, the first of the Tales of the Latter Kingdoms series; and
Dragon Rose,
the second book in the Latter Kingdom series. Her release schedule for 2013 is
just as full, with a follow-up to Bad Vibrations in
January and the final book of the trilogy in July, Binding Spell (Book 3 in the Latter Kingdoms series) in March, and
then the third book in the Gaian Consortium series (The Gaia Gambit) and the fourth in the Latter Kingdoms series (Ashes of Roses) due out in the second
half of the year.
Christine
Pope writes as the mood takes her, and her work encompasses paranormal romance,
fantasy, horror, science fiction, and historical romance. She blames this on
being easily distracted by bright, shiny objects, which could also account for
the size of her shoe collection. After spending many years in the magazine
publishing industry, she now works as a freelance editor and graphic designer
in addition to writing fiction. She fell in love with Sedona, Arizona, while
researching the Sedona Trilogy and now makes her home there, surrounded by the
red rocks. No alien sightings, though…not yet, anyway!
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