Cate
Culpepper
NOVELS
Windigo Thrall
"The Windigo has a heart of ice.”
Legends of an ancient cannibal demon were enthralling, but they were folklore. To Jo and Becca, investigating reports of a Windigo is a lively scholarly exercise, and for Grady and Elena, it means a weekend at an idyllic mountain retreat. Only Pat and Maggie recognize a malevolent spirit out of Algonquin myth. Throw six volatile women into a snowbound cabin, beset by a blizzard and stalked by a monster, and there’s no assurance they’ll survive the night with their sanity intact—or their lives.
A Question of Ghosts
Becca Healy always believed she understood the shameful circumstances of her mother’s death—until the night her mother whispers a simple message out of the static of a radio: “Not true.” Becca turns to the terse Dr. Joanne Call, an expert in Electronic Voice Phenomenon—ghost voices—to unravel the mystery of a decades-old tragedy. Joanne can coax messages out of the silence of the grave, but coping with this feisty, emotional Healy person might be completely beyond her. Together, Becca and Jo must tackle childhood grief, a serial killer, Xena withdrawal, and a growing attraction between the two most mismatched women in Seattle.
(Finalist for a Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Paranormal Romance)
River Walker
Any night La Llorona walks the river is a night to stay indoors.
One moonlit midnight, two very different women meet on the banks of the muddy Rio Grande. Grady Wrenn is a cultural anthropologist, enthralled by a local ghost story about a vengeful spirit known as the River Walker. Elena Montalvo, a spiritual healer, is that tortured spirit’s only defender. Together, Grady and Elena must find a way to end the River Walker’s murderous vendetta— and overcome a maze of cultural barriers to find each other.
(Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Romance, a Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Paranormal Romance, and a Lesbian Fiction Readers Choice Award)
Fireside
Mac is a new therapist at Fireside, a domestic violence shelter in rural Virginia. Mac hopes to find answers here—answers for the women and children she works with, and to her own lifelong restlessness. Perhaps she’ll even learn the identity of the small ghost who’s been following her all her life. Abby is the shelter’s doctor—irresistibly alluring, and straight as a stick. Mac and Abby, devoted to those they serve, discover equal passion for each other while fighting to protect those they love. Fireside is a story of love, friendship, healing, and laying our ghosts to rest at last.
(Finalist for a Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Best Paranormal Romance)
(Cate won a 2008 Alice B Medal for her body of work. She owes thanks to her long-time BSB editor, Cindy Cresap, and her long-suffering betas, Connie Ward and Gill McKnight. All cover designs by Sheri Dragon.)
The Tristaine Series
The four Tristaine novels tell the story of a modern-day Amazon clan.
Illustration by Barb Kiwak