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Mande Matthews

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in Colville, Washington, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance

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Mande Matthews is the author of the ShadowLight Saga. Her debut novel is "Bonded" - book one of the ya epic fantasy trilogy. A free prequel to the ShadowLight Saga, entitled "The LightKeepers" is now available for free at most online retailers.

While attending a performing arts college for writing and arranging, Mande discovered Joseph Cambell's Masks of God series. Her desire to understand humanity through myth and legend mingled with her love of fantasy fiction, birthing her life-long quest to create original new worlds for readers.

A hermit at heart, Mande recedes into the realms of imagination where she occasionally surfaces to face the real world aided by her minions: a husband who plays the dog drum (the belly of their border collie), ...more

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Hunger Therapy – #Short Story: When your natural instincts clash with your moral compass

#ModernFantasy #UnlikelyAlliances #FantasyWithHeart #humorousstories #darkhumor

“I know it’s wrong, but I can’t help myself.” The words scorched my throat as I hunched outside my designated therapist’s window. The union had assigned Dr. Hardley to me, and the window kept us separate. Our kind weren’t allowed direct access, and flame-resistant glass provided extra protection for good ‘old Doc—so the

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	The Light Keepers (ShadowLight Saga, #0.5) 3.54 avg rating — 1,341 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Spellbound Box Set by Mande Matthews (Goodreads Author), Chrissy Peebles, W.J. May (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 958 ratings — published 2015	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 BEWITCHED Box Set by Mande Matthews (Goodreads Author), W.J. May (Goodreads Author), C.J. Pinard (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2015	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
	Betrothal (Queen's Honor, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	Bonded (ShadowLight Saga, #1) 3.52 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	Broken (ShadowLight Saga, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Quest (Queen's Honor, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	If Angels Whisper: A Heart-Touching Guardian Angel Story 4.42 avg rating — 53 ratings	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
	Shadow Born (ShadowLight Saga #3) 4.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 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
	Surrender (Queen's Honor, #1.5) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015	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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Mande Matthews wrote a new blog post Hunger Therapy – #Short Story: When your natural instincts clash with your moral compass #ModernFantasy #UnlikelyAlliances #FantasyWithHeart #humorousstories #darkhumor“I know it’s wrong, but I can’t help myself.” The words scorched my thr Read more of this blog post »
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“Between darkness and light there is truth.”
― Mande Matthews, Bonded

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“The world does not create you. You create the world by what you choose to believe.”
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“Balin's bulk appeared out of the mist, a giant of a man with a battle sword drawn and ready. The sheer mass of him was enough to cow even a war hardened soldier. As tall as Astrid stood for a woman, she was, nevertheless, an ill match—in both size and experience—against”
― Mande Matthews, The Light Keepers

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“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
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“Between darkness and light there is truth.”
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“The world does not create you. You create the world by what you choose to believe.”
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