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This site features the novels of Cate Culpepper.
Her next release, coming from Bold Strokes Books in July, 2012:
In 2011, River Walker was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Romance of the year, a Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Paranormal Romance, and named one of the top five general fiction novels by the Lesbian Readers' Choice Awards.
This novel can be ordered from :
Tales about a modern-day Amazon clan, struggling to survive against odds more brutal than any faced by their ancient ancestors.






Three extraordinary women – Mac, a counselor, Abby, a doctor, and Cleo, an attorney -- bring their skills and dedication to Fireside, a domestic violence shelter in rural Virginia. The healing Fireside offers its residents forms the backdrop to the growing love between Mac and Abby.

The Tristaine novels
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BATTLE FOR TRISTAINE
Click here for more about Rises.
Tristaine's hard-won peace is shattered when a lethal epidemic 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 malevolent Government facility that almost cost them their lives. The danger they face is harrowing, the stakes enormous . . . and they have precious little time.
Queens of Tristaine is now on sale from the following retailers:
I was pleased to be named one of the recipients of the Alice B Reader's Appreciation Award for 2008. As this award acknowledges a writer's body of work, my thanks to my editors at Bold Strokes Books, Cindy Cresap, Shelley Thrasher, and JB Greystone for shaping every book this body has thus far produced.
All of Cate's novels are published through Bold Strokes Books.
There's a Yahoo discussion list for readers of the Tristaine series. Anyone is welcome to join. Please check out the intro page:
Do you enjoy the work of other Bold Strokes Books writers? This list provides updates on BSB's current releases and events.





Tristaine Rises continues the love story between Jess and Brenna, as Tristaine is threatened by a centuries-dead queen.


(Cover image for Queens of Tristaine by Barbara Kiwak)






Xena: Warrior Princess Fanfiction
Tales from Cate's best-beloved cheesy television series