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A Little Town Called Sea Haven
You may think it all started with the Drake Sisters series, but actually it happened before that. I discovered Sea Haven, the fictional town by the ocean that homes both the Drake Sisters and the Sisters of the Heart.
I lived, for a very long time, in Lake County, California on Cobb Mountain. I loved it there and the small town feel of it. My children went to school and most were raised there. My career took off while I lived in that house and at that time my big dream was for a remodeled kitchen and the ability to send my children to college. Last year, that house burned to the ground in the Cobb Mountain fire that took hundreds of homes. Few things of mine were still there, but it was our family home that we still owned and it breaks my heart to think that it is gone. But, the memories are still there. The closeness of sisters, the small town feel where everybody knew everybody and secrets were harder to keep the longer you lived there.
I moved to a small town on the coast, near the Redwood trees. I can see the ocean from my living room window on a clear day and walk in the forest on my property. Several small towns surround me and those towns, plus the small-town feel and experience of Cobb Mountain, make up Sea Haven. Sea Haven is all that I love about small towns and its people, about the ocean and the woods.
Sea Haven is nearly a character all on its own, but it’s the community of Sea Haven that make it come alive and give it character. People know you and ask about you when you walk into the grocery or go get your hair or nails done. The artisans, inspired by the beauty surrounding them, are plenty and talented and I know so many of them by name now. People care about keeping their community clean, their children safe and the people active in all that goes on around them. You almost feel as though you have stepped back into time when helping your neighbor was a priority, generosity was commonplace and laughter was contagious.
Sea Haven exists, in parts, everywhere. I have been there. Perhaps not visiting a town by that name, but by visiting many small towns along the coast that make up this beautiful place I write about. Towns like that still exist throughout American, and I imagine, throughout the world.
Fire Bound
I lived, for a very long time, in Lake County, California on Cobb Mountain. I loved it there and the small town feel of it. My children went to school and most were raised there. My career took off while I lived in that house and at that time my big dream was for a remodeled kitchen and the ability to send my children to college. Last year, that house burned to the ground in the Cobb Mountain fire that took hundreds of homes. Few things of mine were still there, but it was our family home that we still owned and it breaks my heart to think that it is gone. But, the memories are still there. The closeness of sisters, the small town feel where everybody knew everybody and secrets were harder to keep the longer you lived there.
I moved to a small town on the coast, near the Redwood trees. I can see the ocean from my living room window on a clear day and walk in the forest on my property. Several small towns surround me and those towns, plus the small-town feel and experience of Cobb Mountain, make up Sea Haven. Sea Haven is all that I love about small towns and its people, about the ocean and the woods.
Sea Haven is nearly a character all on its own, but it’s the community of Sea Haven that make it come alive and give it character. People know you and ask about you when you walk into the grocery or go get your hair or nails done. The artisans, inspired by the beauty surrounding them, are plenty and talented and I know so many of them by name now. People care about keeping their community clean, their children safe and the people active in all that goes on around them. You almost feel as though you have stepped back into time when helping your neighbor was a priority, generosity was commonplace and laughter was contagious.
Sea Haven exists, in parts, everywhere. I have been there. Perhaps not visiting a town by that name, but by visiting many small towns along the coast that make up this beautiful place I write about. Towns like that still exist throughout American, and I imagine, throughout the world.
Fire Bound
The Importance of Family, Community and Sisters of the Heart
Lissa, the heroine of Fire Bound, is special to me. She is as secretive and quiet as she is loyal and fierce. She exemplifies the element she is bound to; fire. You see fire, know it’s warmth and importance, but it’s easy to take it for granted and that’s when you get burned. Lissa has kept a secret from the women she calls her sisters because that secret is dangerous. She’s already lost her parents, she would do anything to keep her sisters of the heart protected, even from herself and her secret double-life.
Casimir is a man of secrets as well. Also orphaned, he has only his brothers as family. So when they ask him to watch over Lissa when she leaves for Italy he agrees. But, he is also bound to fire, his magic gifts as dangerous as Lissa’s. So when the two realize they need to work together things heat up, as you can imagine.
I love how the two are a perfect a compliment for each other. They both know the need for secrecy, double-lives, alias, disguises. They know how to kill and how to survive. Threaten what they love…who they love, and their magic becomes combustible.
Fire Bound
They are two puzzle pieces that fit perfectly together.
Casimir is a man of secrets as well. Also orphaned, he has only his brothers as family. So when they ask him to watch over Lissa when she leaves for Italy he agrees. But, he is also bound to fire, his magic gifts as dangerous as Lissa’s. So when the two realize they need to work together things heat up, as you can imagine.
I love how the two are a perfect a compliment for each other. They both know the need for secrecy, double-lives, alias, disguises. They know how to kill and how to survive. Threaten what they love…who they love, and their magic becomes combustible.
Fire Bound
They are two puzzle pieces that fit perfectly together.
Social Media Meeting Up – YOUR Way!
Anyone who knows me knows that I sincerely appreciate my readers. I answer my email, posts and requests for signed books. I do my best to do a little social media each day. I have my own online community where I give out “goodies” and interact on a more personal level. I try to be available as much as I can since I don’t travel a great deal.
I do a little bit, everywhere. I want to go to my readers where they are. It’s great to have readers come to my website, read my blog, interact in my online community, but I feel it’s important for me to do my best to be available where my readers are. That’s one of the reasons I blog on Goodreads instead of making my own personal blog on my website. Many of my readers are already on Goodreads, so it’s more convenient for them if I have my blog here. And for those who only like to go to my website, the blogs are forwarded there automatically.
I receive many emails via my website, which is easy enough to find- CONTACT
As a side note, that page also tells you how to get a signed book from me, or where to send snail mail.
I have a lot of questions sent that way.
Of course, I have a newsletter which I only send out when I have a book release- NEWSLETTER
I’m asked where people can find my books in chronological order, or if I have a list or catalog. I do! And I have a wonderful team who helps me to keep my website up to date. You can find that catalog here- CATALOG
My website was recently remodeled and I love it, but I don’t think people realize how many resources are there. Or how many fun things! I write up little news snippets about my books, which you can find on that book’s landing page. And of course my community gets a lot of “first to know” stuff and exclusives.
You can sign up for my free online community here-
ONLINE COMMUNITY
There are other places you can find me online. I try to reach as many online places as I have time for. I don’t know where you like to hang out online, but hopefully one of those listed below will be a good place for us to meet up!
TWITTER
Christine's Facebook
Christine Feehan Instagram
I do a little bit, everywhere. I want to go to my readers where they are. It’s great to have readers come to my website, read my blog, interact in my online community, but I feel it’s important for me to do my best to be available where my readers are. That’s one of the reasons I blog on Goodreads instead of making my own personal blog on my website. Many of my readers are already on Goodreads, so it’s more convenient for them if I have my blog here. And for those who only like to go to my website, the blogs are forwarded there automatically.
I receive many emails via my website, which is easy enough to find- CONTACT
As a side note, that page also tells you how to get a signed book from me, or where to send snail mail.
I have a lot of questions sent that way.
Of course, I have a newsletter which I only send out when I have a book release- NEWSLETTER
I’m asked where people can find my books in chronological order, or if I have a list or catalog. I do! And I have a wonderful team who helps me to keep my website up to date. You can find that catalog here- CATALOG
My website was recently remodeled and I love it, but I don’t think people realize how many resources are there. Or how many fun things! I write up little news snippets about my books, which you can find on that book’s landing page. And of course my community gets a lot of “first to know” stuff and exclusives.
You can sign up for my free online community here-
ONLINE COMMUNITY
There are other places you can find me online. I try to reach as many online places as I have time for. I don’t know where you like to hang out online, but hopefully one of those listed below will be a good place for us to meet up!
Christine's Facebook
Christine Feehan Instagram
Coming in 2020
So much is happening in 2020!
I'm releasing 6 new books this year!
Be sure to check out the Kindle Highlights and Annotations for Vengeance Road and let me know what you think of my comments to your most highlighted scenes in the book! See there HERE
WalMart has been wonderful with the re-releases and new, exclusive covers. This year it's GhostWalkers! If you love collecting the new, alternate covers, you can start with this one! It's only through WalMart and in-store.
It's never too late to give gifts. If you'd like to have Lethal Game personalized for yourself or a friend it's not too late! You can request a short message and I'll sign the book! You can get all the information here -Gallery Bookshop
If you'd like to order Lethal Game with just my signature you can do that over an BN.com!
Last, but not least, if you're not part of my online community you may want to consider joining! This year we will have more exclusive goodies! Right now we have a mini teaser for Vendetta Road with a second one coming soon. You'll see Ice's point of view, then Soleil's. They're both fun! You can sign up here- COMMUNITY
It's easy, we don't SPAM you and there's lots of positive energy and fun there!
I don't have anything planned as far as conferences at this time, but you can always check the website at a later date.
Thank you for giving me such an amazing year! I look forward to spending this one with you, too!
TWITTER
My Official Website
Christine Feehan Website
Christine's Facebook
Christine on Twitter
I'm releasing 6 new books this year!
Be sure to check out the Kindle Highlights and Annotations for Vengeance Road and let me know what you think of my comments to your most highlighted scenes in the book! See there HERE
WalMart has been wonderful with the re-releases and new, exclusive covers. This year it's GhostWalkers! If you love collecting the new, alternate covers, you can start with this one! It's only through WalMart and in-store.
It's never too late to give gifts. If you'd like to have Lethal Game personalized for yourself or a friend it's not too late! You can request a short message and I'll sign the book! You can get all the information here -Gallery Bookshop
If you'd like to order Lethal Game with just my signature you can do that over an BN.com!
Last, but not least, if you're not part of my online community you may want to consider joining! This year we will have more exclusive goodies! Right now we have a mini teaser for Vendetta Road with a second one coming soon. You'll see Ice's point of view, then Soleil's. They're both fun! You can sign up here- COMMUNITY
It's easy, we don't SPAM you and there's lots of positive energy and fun there!
I don't have anything planned as far as conferences at this time, but you can always check the website at a later date.
Thank you for giving me such an amazing year! I look forward to spending this one with you, too!
My Official Website
Christine Feehan Website
Christine's Facebook
Christine on Twitter
Family, Community and Love - Lightning Game
Lightning Game was a joy to write. I love research and find the science of lightning and what scientists hope to achieve with lightning is fascinating. I love mystery and there’s a touch of that in Lightning Game as well. But as most of you know I really love writing about family and community which this has in so many ways. The people of the Appalachian Mountains are a very close-knit and caring group of people who have their own ways of living. The community that Rubin and Diego were raised in has its own secrets and their own ways of doing things.
Lightning Game is about love. The love of brothers. Rubin and Diego are close and their dynamic as brothers has many layers to it. Together they are unstoppable and even more dangerous than when they’re on their own. If you have siblings that you’re very close with you know what you’d be willing to do for them. You would not want to come between these two brothers. But they are also caring and sometimes quite hilarious.
All of my novels are about romance and finding that one person who is “your person”, your soul mate. Jonquille was perfect for Rubin. She was smart and as dangerous as the two brothers. In some ways she was more dangerous. She was smart, too. As she grew to love Rubin she knew she would have to win over Diego because he was so protective of Rubin.
Lightning Game is about many things and one of those things has to do with how we let people into our lives and how close we allow them to be. There are layers of love to this story and I hope readers enjoy all of it.
