January 11, 2012

Happy New Year, authors and readers!

And what better way to welcome in the new year than by reading Chris Paynter's poignant and riveting new release, Survived by her Longtime Companion!

ISBN: 978-1-935627-88-3

Hired to work on a biography of the late film star, Daphne DeMonet, Bailey Hampton arrives to conduct an interview with Eleanor Burnett, Daphne’s "longtime companion." To Bailey’s dismay, she learns Eleanor has set up a co-interview with Bailey’s ex-partner, Chelsea Parker.

Estranged for eleven months, the two women hide their painful memories and strain to be civil to one another. Eleanor startles them by insisting that they take turns reading aloud from Eleanor’s diaries of her life with Daphne DeMonet. Only after the diaries are read in her presence will Eleanor proceed with a full interview.

Once Eleanor discovers that Bailey and Chelsea are ex-partners, the diary readings take on a new meaning for her. Can they learn from the mistakes she and Daphne made as young lovers? Will that knowledge bring Bailey and Chelsea together again? Or is it too late to mend their broken relationship?

Order your copy now, either in print at www.bluefeatherbooks.com, or in e-book format at www.bellabooks.com

December 15, 2011

We're very happy to welcome yet another member into the Blue Feather family.

Angela Koenig is a voracious, lifelong reader of almost everything, particularly historical fact and fiction. A child of the Midwestern plains, she has seen the sun rise over the Acropolis and the moon set over the Pacific.

Rebellion in Ulster is her debut novel.

Rebellion in Ulster

During a visit to relatives in Ulster, Rhodes Scholar Jeri O’Donnell’s plans for a scholarly life are shattered by a tragedy that kills her beloved cousin, Fiona, and sends Jeri to the Armagh Women’s Prison. In Armagh, Provo volunteer Jill Leary attempts to recruit the young American for the IRA, while the mysterious Arkadia O’Malley seeks nothing less than Jeri’s soul.

When Jeri is released as precipitously as she was imprisoned, she chooses to embrace Fiona’s struggle as her own and joins the Provisional IRA. Jeri is sent out of Northern Ireland to be trained, first to the Irish Republic and then to Eastern Europe. Cool under pressure and fierce in action, she becomes the ideal urban soldier whether in Rotterdam, Belgrade or Belfast.

Attracting women has never been difficult for the intense young woman from South Boston, but Jeri’s inconsolable remorse over Fiona’s death makes intimacy virtually impossible. Several women try to reach her, but the violence of her life only drives her further from human comfort. Although she can never quit questioning the morality of her actions, Jeri has a taste for fighting that she once hoped to leave behind in the streets of Southie. When a bomb in Belfast explodes early, either through accident or design, the resulting carnage plunges Jeri into a despair that forces her to reconsider what choices, if any, are left to her.

December 2, 2011

Blue Feather Books is pleased to welcome Jennifer McCormick into our growing family.

Jennifer McCormick was born in North Carolina. She's always had a fascination for space exploration and the unknown. She enjoys all things science fiction and fantasy, from books and movies to video games. As a child, Jennifer was an avid reader and always had an interest for writing. Her interests are shopping, reading, and just spending time with family and friends. She currently live in beautiful northwestern North Carolina with her parrot.

The Midas Conspiracy

In the distant future, humans have succeeded in colonizing worlds far beyond the Milky Way. But, after being driven nearly to extinction in a galactic war, humanity is unsure which among the alien races can be trusted.

Leara Sorani is a Valori, a race of hermaphroditic humanoids charged with keeping the peace in the universe. Her suspicions of the human corporation, Midas Pharmaceuticals, have driven her to infiltrate the corporation's headquarters, where she obtains proof of a sinister plot aimed at aliens: Midas Pharmaceuticals is planning to release a deadly plague that will target all aliens.

Space mercenary Cybil Reynard is hired to track down Leara and retrieve the sensitive information she stole, by any means necessary. Cybil tracks her target to a remote outpost facility in the harsh and unforgiving wastelands of a frozen planet, where, hunter and prey meet face-to-face. Leara shares her information with Cybil, embroiling Cybil in the conspiracy.

Cybil and Leara are forced into an uneasy alliance in order to halt the obliteration of intelligent life. But can Cybil overcome her tragic past and her own reservations toward aliens? The fate of the universe, as well as that of the beautiful and mysterious Leara Sorani, are in her hands.