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Sierra Dean

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Horror

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Sierra Dean is a reformed historian. She was born and raised in the Canadian prairies and is allowed annual exit visas in order to continue her quest of steadily conquering the world one city at a time. Making the best of the cold Canadian winters, Sierra indulges in her less global interests: drinking too much tea and writing urban fantasy.

Ever since she was a young girl she has loved the idea of the supernatural coexisting with the mundane. As an adult, however, the idea evolved from the notion of fairies in flower beds, to imagining that the rugged-looking guy at the garage might secretly be a werewolf. She has used her overactive imagination to create her own version of the world, where vampire, werewolves, fairies, gods and monsters al ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 28,124 ratings · 1,947 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	Something Secret This Way Comes (Secret McQueen, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 5,557 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bloody Good Secret (Secret McQueen, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 3,613 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep Dark Secret (Secret McQueen, #3) 3.99 avg rating — 2,923 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeping Secret (Secret McQueen, #4) 4.07 avg rating — 2,569 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grave Secret (Secret McQueen, #5) 4.03 avg rating — 2,128 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Unleashed (Secret McQueen, #6) 4.09 avg rating — 1,649 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Santa (Secret McQueen #2.5) 3.94 avg rating — 1,391 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Hard Secret (Secret McQueen, #7) 4.04 avg rating — 1,321 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters (Secret McQueen, #0.5) 3.85 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Secret to Die For (Secret McQueen #8) 4.09 avg rating — 1,044 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Sierra Dean

Secret McQueen (12 books)
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Boys of Summer (3 books)
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Genie McQueen (4 books)
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4.06 avg rating — 710 ratings

Rain Chaser (3 books)
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3.95 avg rating — 494 ratings

Dog Days (4 books)
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First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)

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Spellbound by Murder: A Mystic Hollow Bookshop Mystery

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Sierra Dean is currently reading First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1) by B.K. Borison (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Romance	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sierra Dean rated a book really liked it Detective Daintypaws: A Squirrel In Bohemia: Crime-Solving Cat Adventures by Andrew K. Lawston (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
this was a strange but quick and cute read.
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Sierra Dean rated a book did not like it The Baby Dragon Café (The Baby Dragon, #1) by Aamna Qureshi (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
DNF at 75% I know others will love this but this just didn't work for me at all. ...more
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Sierra Dean rated a book really liked it Cat Got Your Tongue?: Curious Feline Phrases from Around the World by Hannah Shaw	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
a cute little coffee table book with lovely illustrations.
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Sierra Dean rated a book really liked it Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!) by Bethany Joy Lenz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3.75 The audiobook was definitely the way to go here, with cameos from a lot of One Tree Hill cast members (all male, interestingly, though I believe BJL is on a podcast with Hilarie and Sophia now?). I thought this was compelling and honestly told, t ...more
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Sierra Dean made a comment on Rachel Terleski ’s status in Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore " I ordered this from Book of the Month! "
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Sierra Dean rated a book it was amazing Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1) by Lynn Painter (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sierra Dean made a comment on K Whatsherface’s review of Earl Grave Tea (Witches' Brew Mystery #4) " Definitely not the end! A new one will be coming every September! "
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“Detective Castilla, your Secret is safe with me." She blinked with surprise, and I groaned. "God, Holden. How long have you been waiting to use that line?"
"About three years."
"And in three years you couldn't find any room for improvment?”
― Sierra Dean

tags: holden, mercedes-castilla, secret-mcqueen

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“...Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman.
Even metaphysics couldn't keep that from being whorey.”
― Sierra Dean, A Bloody Good Secret

tags: humor, love-triangles, sexuality

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“Eugenia’s mouth formed an O shape, her eyes wide and a little wet.
Now I had not only told her Santa wasn’t real, I’d told her the Easter Bunny went on killing sprees to eat the children who didn’t find his eggs.”
― Sierra Dean, Keeping Secret

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Sierra’s Quotes

“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game. We may wonder whether at the acme and summit of the human progress these anachronisms will be corrected by a finer intuition, a close interaction of the social machinery than that which now jolts us round and along; but such completeness is not to be prophesied, or even conceived as possible. Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; part and counterpart wandered independently about the earth in the stupidest manner for a while, till the late time came. Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes -- what was called a strange destiny.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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“Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: metaphor, punctuation

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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

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