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Leopard Fun- Games and More

Leopard's Run will be out Nov. 6th and we're gearing up for the release!

A friend of mine created this fun and simple game and I hope you enjoy it!



Let me know what you got!

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If you missed it the first chapter of Leopard's Run is up for your enjoyment! CHAPTER


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This is fun, too!
Goodreads has sent me the top 9-10 most highlighted passages or sentences from Leopard's Blood in preparation for the release of Leopard's Run! So, I get to see what readers loved and I comment about it. And if you want, you can comment on what I saw! Kind of like a real life conversation. LOL
You can read and/or participate here- Leopard's Blood Annotations





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Leopard’s Run Book Trailer – First Public Release!

Leopard’s Run is out November 6th and it’s both sexy and action-packed!



I love the conflict Timur and Ashe have. They’re both driven. They both have a mission. Timur doesn’t trust Ashe and for good reason, she’s most certainly keeping a secret. Timur is tasked to keep his brother, his family, safe. He takes his job very seriously. When Ashe appears out of the blue, working for Timur’s sister-in-law, he’s already pissed. There’s something about her that doesn’t quite add up and Timur is willing to do what it takes to figure her out. And what it takes to stop her if she proves to be a danger to those he’s sworn to protect.


Timur finds that his own body is willing to betray him as he gets closer to Ashe. Not a good idea when he might have to kill her. But perhaps, just one taste…
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Covert Game – Inside the Characters

Zara Hightower was always going to be a complex character. I knew she was brilliant. Off the charts brilliant. Beautiful, which she didn’t see as a resource, or use as a resource. Her main focus would always be her “sisters”. Their lives mattered even more than her own. She would do anything for them, including break the rules by bringing in contraband to them, or lying to them to give them hope. Her life had started and would likely end in a laboratory where she’d been raised, trained and abused for the sake of experiment. She never expected to live as long as she had, so she wanted to be a bright light to them so they would continue to live, to try and save themselves.



Some people are naturally self-sacrificing. Not in a martyrdom kind of way, but in a generous, loving way. This is Zara. Though she was deadly in her own right, her nature was more of a giving, loving one. So when someone kidnapped her and tortured her, it challenged her sense of self and her belief that somewhere out there in the world there was kindness.

Gino Mazza had a horrific start as a child. His family was killed on his 12th birthday. He’d been shot and left for dead, his family home set on fire. But, his best friend, Joe Spagnola saved him and Joe’s family took him in. Gino grew up learning a mafia lifestyle and taking chances. He became very wealthy and, when Joe left to join the Air Force, Gino went with him. He was accepted into the GhostWalker program, his natural psychic abilities enhanced. He became a doctor and an elite hunter. His family became his “brothers”, other GhostWalkers he’d learned he could trust. He was fiercely loyal.



When Zara was captured and the call that came in asking for help was from the GhostWalker’s enemy Dr. Whitney, Gino and the team wondered if she were a plant, sent to harm them. Gino would do anything to protect his team and even as he realized he might be required to kill Zara, the pictures of her haunted him. Her beauty, her innocence, her horrible life forged from experimentation and hard training.

Matching up a hero and heroine takes some strategy. You need one to be strong where the other is weak. They have to complement one another. I want people to see both the conflict between them and the commonalities. Gino and Zara are both GhostWalkers, which makes them special. They both had a tough upbringing. They’re both wicked-smart.

But, not only do they both have trust issues, Zara was tortured, her spirit broken and the man she has to rely on knows he may have to kill her. It’s a pretty big conflict, especially given that the man who tortured her plans to reacquire her at any cost. You see, Zara has a big secret she’s kept from everyone and her ability to determine who to trust will be the difference between the life and death of hundreds of people. Including her own.

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Things That Go Bump in the Night – Horror Week

I love paranormal romance. I enjoy vampires, ghosts, shapeshifters but nothing too scary and certainly nothing gory. But, there are degrees of “Horror” in the horror genre that I enjoy, though most of it would be with a strong romantic element or perhaps humor.



I write about shapeshifters and vampires, military experiments and magic primarily because I love the freedom of writing paranormal. There is so much for the imagination. The only limits are the ones you put on yourself when you build a world that you’ll write in. And, you don’t have to be politically correct for the most part. For example, my Leopard shapeshifters have elements of Leopard behaviors when they’re in human form. So, they can be more aggressive, where a contemporary normal human male behaving that way would come across as mean or be rejected by most modern women. I love that, with my writing in the paranormal genre, I can do anything I can imagine.
I lean more toward sexy supernatural and less toward the scary horror. There are some movies that I never finished watching because they were just too scary for me.



Give me Dracula! And if we’re going to watch a movie please make it the version of Dracula with Gary Oldman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It shows him as a beast in one scene and there is violence in the movie, but at no point do I forget that Dracula is influenced by love. It’s a love story.

What kind of horror do you like to read? Do you have a favorite horror movie or character that you enjoy?

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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-
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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!

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Playing the “If I were to …“ Game!

In celebration of Dark Sentinel I have a fun game for you to play!



Reader’s Entertainment Magazine asked me to play a game they call “If I were to…” and then we thought it would be fun to ask readers to play as well here on my blog. I hope you’ll play along.

Put your answers in the comments. You can answer just the ones that interest you, or answer them all like I did!

You can see my answers here- READER'S ENTERTAINMENT

This is just for fun, but I do hope you’ll play along!



If I were to spend a week vacationing with any of Christine’s characters it would be-

If I were to choose any ability from any of Christine’s series or characters to take on as my own it would be –

If I were to ask Christine to invite another author’s characters into her world to be an ally it would be –

If I were to choose any comic book superhero or villain to be in a Dark Series book it would be –

If I were to shapeshift into any animal it would be a –

If I were to say who my personal choice of most intriguing NEW character in the Dark Series it would be-

If I were to choose a new city to set one of Christine’s series in it would be –

If I were to choose my favorite thing about Dark Sentinel it would be (no spoilers though!)-


I hope this was fun for you, too. Be sure to comment your answers!

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Dark Sentinel Heroine: Lorraine Peters

I’ve had a vague idea for a heroine for quite some time, but I only knew certain things about her in the beginning. I knew she had to be strong, both physically and mentally. I knew she was a fighter. And I knew she had experienced a great tragedy that left her alone in the world on many levels.



But, until I found the right lifemate for her she had to stay in the background.

As I began Dark Sentinel I knew the hero would be one of the monastery ancients and realized it would be Andor. Unfortunately, Andor was at the end of his long life and ready to die. That’s when I knew who my heroine was and that her time had finally come. Lorraine Peters was absolutely the only person who could save Andor. Not just because she was his lifemate, but because of her life experiences and who she was as a person. It couldn’t be anyone else.
Lorraine came from a family of fighters. They trained daily. She was disciplined and fast. She was strategic and level-headed. She was brought up that way and it became a natural part of her. And, like most of the women who become lifemates, they are born with light and love in them. Lorraine loved her family. She was loyal and dependable. And even though her brother struggled with anger issues, she showered him with love and encouraged him to be good.

So, you can see how Lorraine would be a wonderful lifemate to any Carpathian male. Strong, yet loving. Loyal and accepting. But, I needed someone who would, in a split second, decide to help a stranger who was being attacked by murderers, even though she was all alone. It had to be someone who wouldn’t run for help because the odds were so astronomically against her. Something in her had to be so infuriated at what was happening that she would give her own life to stop it.



Years ago, there was a terrible crime that happened around the area in which I live. A local family had a son who was mentally ill and had anger issues. They had asked for help from the medical community. They’d even asked for help from law enforcement. No one helped them. One day their son lost control and killed several people from another local family and then was shot and killed by police.

Of course everyone was devastated by the tragic loss. There was such an outpouring of grief and support for the family who’d lost their loved ones. The victims were good people and now their family had to deal with their loss. As the community talked about what happened it occurred to me that the family of the boy who was the murderer also lost a child. They were also victims. No one talked about them. I wondered what it was like to be the family members of the killer. These were good people who had tried everything they could think of to get help and who had told law enforcement they were afraid something terrible would happen, but they were left on their own to manage their adult son. Did they feel alone? Did they feel guilt? Weren’t they just as devastated? These were the questions I thought of as I created Lorraine Peters. This scenario happened to her and everyone she loved was involved in this single event.

The stigma of what happened left Lorraine friendless and utterly alone in the world. She was the woman whose brother was a murderer. After some time she realized she had to get away and find herself again. So, she decided she’d go camping out where no one would know her secret guilt and shame. She wanted to find a way back to who she was. And the perfect opportunity for that opened up in that moment when she saw several men torturing and about to murder an unarmed, beaten, bleeding man who had no fight left in him.
Lorraine saw her chance to stop a murder. Those men were not going to get away with murdering anyone. Not on her watch. She wasn’t there to save her family, but she would save this man no matter what.
It is always satisfying when you find a perfect match. It took a little while for Lorraine to be fully realized as a heroine. It took the perfect lifemate who needed her and only her. It had to be Lorraine for Andor. And I think she was totally worth the wait.




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The Creation of a Hero: Andor Katona

Some heroes come to me easily. They speak to me in a way which may sound crazy, unless you’re an author, but is true. When I say that they speak to me, I mean that I know what their voice is. I know if they’re calm or volatile. I know if they are old fashioned or modern. I have a clear idea of who they are and how they behave.
That doesn’t always happen right away though. Some heroes are stubborn. When you see me torture them a bit, it may be that I’ve been struggling with him and he won’t fall in line with what I want. Those are often the most surprising heroes in which people either totally love them, or they don’t.



I love them all. Those who cooperate and make my storytelling easy for me. And, those who fight me along the way, forcing me to bend to their will, or causing me to force them into compliance.

Andor was a joy to write. I was in the mood for someone romantic and deep, perhaps a little vulnerable so our heroine could come along and remind him that life is worth fighting for. There’s something about a hero who struggles and suffers, but who would dig deep within himself to protect the woman he loves and is willing to compromise in order to secure his woman’s happiness. Andor was that man.

You know from the first chapter that he is weary. Like all of the other ancients from the monastery, he didn’t believe suicide was the answer. To “meet the dawn” because he hadn’t yet found his lifemate and had become dangerous to others was the reason he’d gone to the monastery, but time and violence and a perpetual lack of hope had worn him down. So, when he’s attacked and about to die, he is ready to accept it. Dying while fighting evil was an honorable way to go. He’d put in his time, fought his battles, and now he just wanted a release from his suffering.



Then, in storms a woman waving a saucepan and looking to save his life and in an instant everything in his world changes. Fate, destiny, dumb luck, call it what you will, but in that final moment Andor sees his salvation. And he sees it in full color.

Centuries of turmoil, violence, anguish and torment couldn’t hold a candle to a single second filled with hope and love. Everything that had made him the fearless, dangerous warrior he’d been for all that time sparked back to life and he was once again a deadly predator. And a dark sentinel.

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The Last Hope for The Ancients

High up in the Carpathian Mountains is a monastery hidden away called the Retreat in the Veil of Mists. Until recently, this monastery was the last refuge for those ancient Carpathian warriors who hoped to keep humanity safe by locking themselves away and working to keep the darkness at bay.



These warriors are men of honor, suffering and in despair. They didn’t feel suicide was right and so they sought the company of others like themselves, looking for both sanctuary and camaraderie. Though, without the hope of ever finding a lifemate it was a lonely existence.

But, the outside world slipped in, in Dark Ghost, when Fane introduces himself as keeper of the monastery to Teagan and offers his assistance as well as the assistance of the warriors within the monastery. We learn much more about the monastery and its inhabitants in Dark Promises when Gabrielle follows Gary and finds, in a very horrible way, that Aleksei, one of the monk warriors, is her lifemate. Aleksei brings Gabrielle inside the monastery as he determines her fate, and his own. It is here in Dark Promises that two modern women are found to be lifemates; Gabrielle and Aleksei and then Trixie and Fane. The ancients can see for themselves that there’s hope out in the world now that they know psychic women can be lifemates.

With the ancients now aware that human women can be lifemates many of them join Tariq Asenguard in Southern California where he has set up a compound and monitors vampire activity, something that soon becomes an all-out war. More ancients join as the battle continues and we find in Dark Carousel that Tarqi has been chosen by Mikhail, the Prince, to represent him in the United States.



In Dark Legacy we discover that the vampires have a plan and are strategically working toward carrying out that plan, which includes killing Tariq and everyone who is helping him. Dark Legacy has a lot of action as the battle begins to spread and a huge twist leaves the danger growing more than the Carpathians realize. Dark Legacy also has some surprises that readers will be excited about and this revelation will reverberate throughout the next several books.

Dark Sentinel brings the New Guard together in a new way. And, we’re re-introduced to the human society of vampire hunters that have joined in the fray. Andor, one of the ancient warriors, is attacked on several fronts leaving him to die, which he is ready for. In order to save him it will take his lifemate and the New Guard of ancient warriors to ban together along with Gary Daratrazanoff, a great and powerful healer. But, they have to completely trust in each other, because there’s only one way to save Andor, and it’s never been tried before. If something goes wrong, some, or all even all of them, could die.

These ancients have suffered a long time and finally have a shot at finding a lifemate. They have hope for the first time in centuries. They just have to hold out a little longer. Be strong. Don’t give up.








Chapter 1 of Dark Legacy


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Andor has lived a long time and the loneliness has become unbearable. Fighting vampires, going out as a warrior with honor was something he could accept. He knew he’d received more than one killing blow. This was the end for him. And as he lay there waiting for death to take him he heard someone come to defend him, and his entire world was awash in color.

Lorraine is a fighter and she fought those who were trying to kill Andor. She already has to wrap her mind around what’s she’s seen. Andor’s wounds aren’t something easily survived and she knows this at a glance. Then, Andor convinces her to put him in the dirt, which is healing for Carpathians. She knows how dire the situation is, so she’s willing to try anything.

She thinks he will die and doesn’t want to leave his side. She wants to comfort him, ease his suffering. This couple was a perfect fit for each other. No one could possibly save Andor except for Lorraine. Not only because she is his lifemate, but because her past would never allow her to give up on him.