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STRONG TO SAVE: The Amazons Quartet 1
A FEMINIST POLITICAL ACTION THRILLER
"The characters are all three dimensional and sympathetic." -Sensual Romance Review.
Now Susanna Valent's talent and daring take her to a whole new level in the classic Amazons Quartet, a four-volume saga of Sapphic passion and resistance in the face of a new male-dominated future tyranny. Written in 2003, this all too prophetic novel is more timely today, when its prognostications seem to be coming truer every day, than ever before.
In Book 1, "Strong to A Tale of Forbidden Love," the U.S. is being turned upside down by a government taken over by extreme right wing elements and and religious fundamentalists. Under their rule congress passes all kinds of repressive racist, xenophobic, sexist and homophobic laws. The Bill of Rights ceases to exist for the disadvantaged portions of the population.
Along with every other woman in the country, charismatic, dynamic Coast Guard Captain Kris Nordstrom, a lesbian, she is given the heart-breaking choice of being fired or resigning! At the same time, Kris is still haunted by tragic loss of her first and only serious lover. Meanwhile, her closest friend, Andrea Santiago, another career woman forced from the Coast Guard, is secretly in love with Kris and is plotting a way the two of them can escape to the West Coast, which is the least restrictive location in the US and still safe for women, people of color, lgbt people and other minorities.
As the U.S. boarders are sealed, will Kris and Andrea be able to escape, or will they end up in prison? Will Kris find a way to help her young, lesbian niece, and should she interfere? In future volumes of The Amazons Quartet, Kris finds two lovers, and together they will gather many more women who can't tolerate the new fundamentalist dominated U.S., and instead, they will try to create a culture at sea where they and their children will be free to live their lives without fear of oppression and violence.
A gay "Left Behind".
"The characters are all three dimensional and sympathetic." -Sensual Romance Review.
Now Susanna Valent's talent and daring take her to a whole new level in the classic Amazons Quartet, a four-volume saga of Sapphic passion and resistance in the face of a new male-dominated future tyranny. Written in 2003, this all too prophetic novel is more timely today, when its prognostications seem to be coming truer every day, than ever before.
In Book 1, "Strong to A Tale of Forbidden Love," the U.S. is being turned upside down by a government taken over by extreme right wing elements and and religious fundamentalists. Under their rule congress passes all kinds of repressive racist, xenophobic, sexist and homophobic laws. The Bill of Rights ceases to exist for the disadvantaged portions of the population.
Along with every other woman in the country, charismatic, dynamic Coast Guard Captain Kris Nordstrom, a lesbian, she is given the heart-breaking choice of being fired or resigning! At the same time, Kris is still haunted by tragic loss of her first and only serious lover. Meanwhile, her closest friend, Andrea Santiago, another career woman forced from the Coast Guard, is secretly in love with Kris and is plotting a way the two of them can escape to the West Coast, which is the least restrictive location in the US and still safe for women, people of color, lgbt people and other minorities.
As the U.S. boarders are sealed, will Kris and Andrea be able to escape, or will they end up in prison? Will Kris find a way to help her young, lesbian niece, and should she interfere? In future volumes of The Amazons Quartet, Kris finds two lovers, and together they will gather many more women who can't tolerate the new fundamentalist dominated U.S., and instead, they will try to create a culture at sea where they and their children will be free to live their lives without fear of oppression and violence.
A gay "Left Behind".
148 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 2, 2017
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