
Thanks so much for having me here!

He's a permanent fixture wherever I work, unless I've gone to Starbucks. They don't like cats there.

But don't think of him as evil. Really, he just wants to help.

The best part? I get to enjoy this in my own home. My husband and I share our house with a full-time artist, a fantasy-romance genius named Celine Chapus. She works upstairs, and I work down, while my husband works from his home office in-between. The vibes of our little artist's commune set the whole home on fire. It's quiet, but not oppressive – video games, music, and laughter pierce it and keep it from getting too serious.


About the Author: Ruthanne Reid was raised in the woods, but fortunately, her isolation was offset by regular visits to New York City. She pursued music for years before realizing she wanted to tell stories rather than sing them.
Ruthanne writes in and around Seattle, owns dust-covered degrees in music and religion, and is generally considered dangerous around household electronics. Her favorite authors tend to be dramatic (J. R. R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss), but she doesn’t see this as a bad thing. She belongs to a husband, a housemate, and a cat, respectively.
The Sundered is her first novel.
Find Ruthanne online at:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RuthanneReid
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Site/Blog: http://ruthannereid.com

Harry Iskinder knows the rules.
Don’t touch the water, or it will pull you under. Conserve food, because there’s no arable land. Use Sundered slaves gently, or they die too quickly to be worthwhile.
With extinction on the horizon and a world lost to deadly flood, Harry searches for a cure: the Hope of Humanity, the mysterious artifact that gave humans control over the Sundered centuries ago. According to legend, the Hope can fix the planet.
But the Hope holds more secrets than Harry knows. Powerful Sundered Ones willingly bow to him just to get near it. Ambitious enemies pursue him, sure that the Hope is a weapon. Friends turn their backs, afraid Harry will choose wrong.
And Harry has a choice to make. The time for sharing the Earth is done. Either the Sundered survive and humanity ends, or humanity lives for a while, but the Sundered are wiped out.
He never wanted this choice. He still has to make it. In his broken, flooded world, Hope comes with a price.
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Marybelle: I find it very stimulating. I'm not sure if that makes me an anarchist. ;)
Ingeborg: He does! He's on my lap as I type this. :)
Vitajex@aol.com: LOL! Bookstore cats - great reference. Thanks!
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