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StarQuest #1-3, Omnibus
Starquest
StarQuest 1 - Lionheart Mara Armand, director of a foundation for the protection and study of humans with extrasensory abilities, has made telepathic contact with an alien starship captain orbiting the earth. After weeks of nightly telepathic visits with Captain Sander, Mara develops an intimate mental relationship with her unseen alien lover. She experiences his need, his passion, and his sensual touch, but it is a bittersweet relationship for the laws of the Explorers forbid them to ever meet. An accident in space changes everything and Mara and Sander are given the chance they never thought they'd have. Threatened by World Federation troops from without and jealous hatred from within, their survival now depends on the strength of their bond and a ragtag army of young Sensitives willing to risk their lives for an alien starship captain. StarQuest 2 - Night of the Cat Jenna Lang is ready for a change, but traveling to a future earth and landing in the middle of a rebellion between Sensitives and the World Federation was not on her list. A sensual encounter with a ferocious but intriguing Lion of Mirat is something Jenna could never have imagined. Is Garan her ultimate sexual fantasy come true, the one love she has always dreamed of...or is he both? StarQuest 3 - Pride of Imar Sheyna of Pride Imar makes the journey to earth because she knows she can help the rebels. She immediately goes to work with Malachi Franklin, the Rebellion's healer, but their work is interrupted when both of them are captured by the leader of the World Federation. Sheyna and Malachi discover that a powerful bond exists between them during these trying times. However, once they are freed by Rebellion forces, they must determine whether the bond they feel is one borne of love or necessity.
350 pages, Paperback
First published March 31, 2004
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About the author
Kate Douglas
162 books837 followersSome people just seem to know they are meant to write, but it can still take a while to figure out exactly what their career will entail. Kate Douglas started out writing radio copy for a country western radio station in 1972, wrote and illustrated an educational cartoon strip for the American Mosquito Control Association for a number of years, was a newspaper reporter for a small town weekly where she covered everything from high school sports to drug busts, and then, in the mid-1980s, decided to write her first romance.
Many submissions and rejections followed.
In 1998, she sold to a small ebook publisher before anyone knew what an ebook was, but it wasn't until 2005, a full twenty years after finishing that first romance, that she signed with a New York publisher.
In January 2006, Kensington Publishing launched their Aphrodisia imprint of erotic romance with Kate's Wolf Tales, a sexy paranormal series about a lost race of shapeshifters. She went on to write 21 novels and novellas in that series, then wrote three other series for Kensington before moving to St. Martin's Press.
She has two series with SMP--The Intimate Relations series complete with three novels and one novella of romantic suspense set in California's wine country, and an erotic paranormal series, Feral Passions, set in California's Trinity Alps.
She is also continuing her Spirit Wild series, the sequel to Wolf Tales, independently.
Kate and her husband of over forty-five years have two adult children and six grandchildren. They live in the small town of Healdsburg, California, in the heart of the beautiful Sonoma County wine country.
www.katedouglas.com and www.katedouglas.com/eroticromance for full chapter excerpts of all of Kate's books.
You can find Kate on Facebook at www.facebook.com/katedouglas.authorpage or on Twitter @wolftales
Many submissions and rejections followed.
In 1998, she sold to a small ebook publisher before anyone knew what an ebook was, but it wasn't until 2005, a full twenty years after finishing that first romance, that she signed with a New York publisher.
In January 2006, Kensington Publishing launched their Aphrodisia imprint of erotic romance with Kate's Wolf Tales, a sexy paranormal series about a lost race of shapeshifters. She went on to write 21 novels and novellas in that series, then wrote three other series for Kensington before moving to St. Martin's Press.
She has two series with SMP--The Intimate Relations series complete with three novels and one novella of romantic suspense set in California's wine country, and an erotic paranormal series, Feral Passions, set in California's Trinity Alps.
She is also continuing her Spirit Wild series, the sequel to Wolf Tales, independently.
Kate and her husband of over forty-five years have two adult children and six grandchildren. They live in the small town of Healdsburg, California, in the heart of the beautiful Sonoma County wine country.
www.katedouglas.com and www.katedouglas.com/eroticromance for full chapter excerpts of all of Kate's books.
You can find Kate on Facebook at www.facebook.com/katedouglas.authorpage or on Twitter @wolftales
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June 17, 2009
Nice read. This single author anthology manages to mix together aliens who look like lions [think Vincent in Beauty and Beast for those who remember that far back:], Sensitives [people with psychic talents:], post-holocaust Earth complete with a Rebellion against the World Federation which is trying to wipe out the Sensitives. It has likable characters and an action-oriented plot. H/H's spend a lot of time hitting the sheets...
From the publisher's site [Ellora's Cave:]:
StarQuest - Lionheart By Kate Douglas
Book 1 in the Star Quest series
Mara Armand, director of a foundation for the protection and study of humans with extrasensory abilities, has made telepathic contact with an alien starship captain orbiting the earth.
After weeks of nightly telepathic visits with Captain Sander, Mara develops an intimate mental relationship with her unseen alien lover. She experiences his need, his passion, and his sensual touch, but it is a bittersweet relationship for the laws of the Explorers forbid them to ever meet.
An accident in space changes everything and Mara and Sander are given the chance they never thought they'd have. Threatened by World Federation troops from without and jealous hatred from within, their survival now depends on the strength of their bond and a ragtag army of young Sensitives willing to risk their lives for an alien starship captain.
StarQuest - Night of the Cat By Kate Douglas
Book 2 in the series Star Quest
Jenna Lang is ready for a change, but traveling to a future earth and landing in the middle of a rebellion between Sensitives and the World Federation was not on her list. A sensual encounter with a ferocious but intriguing Lion of Mirat is something Jenna could never have imagined. Is Garan her ultimate sexual fantasy come true, the one love she has always dreamed of...or is he both?
StarQuest - Pride of Imar By Kate Douglas
Book 3 in the series Star Quest
Sheyna of Pride Imar makes the journey to earth because she knows she can help the rebels. She immediately goes to work with Malachi Franklin, the Rebellion's healer, but their work is interrupted when both of them are captured by the leader of the World Federation.
Sheyna and Malachi discover that a powerful bond exists between them during these trying times. However, once they are freed by Rebellion forces, they must determine whether the bond they feel is one borne of love or necessity.
From the publisher's site [Ellora's Cave:]:
StarQuest - Lionheart By Kate Douglas
Book 1 in the Star Quest series
Mara Armand, director of a foundation for the protection and study of humans with extrasensory abilities, has made telepathic contact with an alien starship captain orbiting the earth.
After weeks of nightly telepathic visits with Captain Sander, Mara develops an intimate mental relationship with her unseen alien lover. She experiences his need, his passion, and his sensual touch, but it is a bittersweet relationship for the laws of the Explorers forbid them to ever meet.
An accident in space changes everything and Mara and Sander are given the chance they never thought they'd have. Threatened by World Federation troops from without and jealous hatred from within, their survival now depends on the strength of their bond and a ragtag army of young Sensitives willing to risk their lives for an alien starship captain.
StarQuest - Night of the Cat By Kate Douglas
Book 2 in the series Star Quest
Jenna Lang is ready for a change, but traveling to a future earth and landing in the middle of a rebellion between Sensitives and the World Federation was not on her list. A sensual encounter with a ferocious but intriguing Lion of Mirat is something Jenna could never have imagined. Is Garan her ultimate sexual fantasy come true, the one love she has always dreamed of...or is he both?
StarQuest - Pride of Imar By Kate Douglas
Book 3 in the series Star Quest
Sheyna of Pride Imar makes the journey to earth because she knows she can help the rebels. She immediately goes to work with Malachi Franklin, the Rebellion's healer, but their work is interrupted when both of them are captured by the leader of the World Federation.
Sheyna and Malachi discover that a powerful bond exists between them during these trying times. However, once they are freed by Rebellion forces, they must determine whether the bond they feel is one borne of love or necessity.
November 13, 2014
Kate Douglas does such a fantastic job creating her vividly detailed worlds its amazing. Her story and her characters flow so seamlessly that you'd actually think they were real and that she'd found a way to travel and tap into this other realm then wrote it for the rest of us to be a part of too! Not only does she take you on this intense ride she also burns up the pages with her very hot love scenes. Kate is not one to shy away from either seduction or passion, she takes it by the belt and throws it up to the next level! Talent like that takes a lot of work and in her words "It would take a lot of sex to get those callouses." Miss Douglas, what a way to enter your world! Oh my!
March 8, 2024
Three stories in one, all by the same author.
Lionhearted: Earth...sometime in the future. Aliens are real...and feared. The World Federation (WF) is the new ruling party. People with a little something extra are warily tolerated...until the WF can find a reason to eliminate them. Those with the something extra live at The Institute in an insular society. The daughter of The Institute's found, Mara Armand, is a telepath and very strong empath. She connects with Sander, an explorer who is orbiting earth. But then his ship explodes and he falls to Earth. The Institute members find him first and Mara brings him home with her to protect him and learn about the man she's fallen in love with from their nightly encounters.
Night of the Cat: Downsized, disappointed...and dreaming. Waking up in her dream from the previous night, Jenna is confronted by an upright, talking lion. Finding she been brought forward in time to a future earth, she discovers hidden talents with the help of the others in the rebellion her talking lion, Garan, is an integral part of in this world. Then a terrible weapon wipes the mind of her lion and she takes him to his homeland of Mirat to bring him back to himself.
Pride of Imar: Sheyna comes to Earth when her brother Garan returns from Mirat. She has knowledge to help others affected by the machine that almost took Garan. Barely arrived, she is kidnapped by a madman, tortured, and forced to face her dark past. But she has an ally in Malachi Franklin the human healer. He stands by her, loves her, and, when the madman kidnaps the children at a peace summit between WF and the rebellion, fights with her.
Lionhearted: Earth...sometime in the future. Aliens are real...and feared. The World Federation (WF) is the new ruling party. People with a little something extra are warily tolerated...until the WF can find a reason to eliminate them. Those with the something extra live at The Institute in an insular society. The daughter of The Institute's found, Mara Armand, is a telepath and very strong empath. She connects with Sander, an explorer who is orbiting earth. But then his ship explodes and he falls to Earth. The Institute members find him first and Mara brings him home with her to protect him and learn about the man she's fallen in love with from their nightly encounters.
Night of the Cat: Downsized, disappointed...and dreaming. Waking up in her dream from the previous night, Jenna is confronted by an upright, talking lion. Finding she been brought forward in time to a future earth, she discovers hidden talents with the help of the others in the rebellion her talking lion, Garan, is an integral part of in this world. Then a terrible weapon wipes the mind of her lion and she takes him to his homeland of Mirat to bring him back to himself.
Pride of Imar: Sheyna comes to Earth when her brother Garan returns from Mirat. She has knowledge to help others affected by the machine that almost took Garan. Barely arrived, she is kidnapped by a madman, tortured, and forced to face her dark past. But she has an ally in Malachi Franklin the human healer. He stands by her, loves her, and, when the madman kidnaps the children at a peace summit between WF and the rebellion, fights with her.
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