Christine Feehan
Pseudonym:	Christine Feehan
Born:	California, USA
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	American
Writing period:	1999 - present
Genres:	Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy
Debut works:	Dark Prince (Dark Carpathians Series)
Website:	http://www.christinefeehan.com/

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Biography

Feehan was born in California. She grew up with 3 brothers and 10 sisters. She is married to Richard Feehan, with whom she has had 11 children.

Feehan has had 26 novels published and is a New York Times bestseller. Her debut novel, Dark Prince, published in 1999 won 3 Paranormal Excellence Awards for Romantic Literature (PEARL) for that year. Since then she has won 7 more PEARL awards and has been on numerous bestsellers list including Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times. Feehan has also received a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times and been nominated for a RITA award from the Romance Writers of America. Romance Writers of America (RWA) is a national non-profit genre writers association. ...

Bibliography

• After the Music in A Very Gothic Christmas (November 2001)
• Lair of the Lion (September 2002)
• Rocky Mountain Miracle in The Shadows of Christmas Past (October 2004)
• The Twilight Before Christmas
• The Wicked and the Wondrous
• A Christine Feehan Holiday Treasury (Reissue of After The Music, The Twilight Before Christmas and Rocky Mt. Miracle)

Dark Series:

The Dark Series introduces the Carpathians, a powerful and ancient race. They have many gifts, including the ability to shape-shift, and extended life spans, living over 1000 years. Though they feed on human blood, they don't kill their human prey, and for the most part live among them without detection. Despite their gifts, the Carpathians are on the edge of extinction. There have been few children born to them in the past few centuries, those that have been born are all male and often die in the first year. It has been more than 500 years since a female has been born. After 200 years, Male Carpathians lose the ability to feel emotions and see in color. The only feeling left to them is the thrill of making a kill. Once a male has done this, he loses his soul and "turns", becoming the monster of human legend, the vampire or undead. With so few females left, males are forced to make a stark choice, become vampire or "greet the dawn" (i.e. commit suicide).

1. Dark Prince (July 1999)
2. Dark Desire (December 1999)
3. Dark Gold (April 2000)
4. Dark Magic (July 2000
5. Dark Challenge (November 2000)
6. Dark Fire (August 2001)
7. Dark Dream (September 2001
8. Dark Legend (January 2002)
9. Dark Guardian (May 2002)
10. Dark Symphony (February 2003)
11. Dark Descent (May 2003)
12. Dark Melody (November 2003)
13. Dark Destiny (July 2004)
14. Dark Hunger (August 2004) (in the anthology Hot Blooded)
15. Dark Secret (February 2005)
16. Dark Demon (April 2006)
17. Dark Dream (August 2006) (in the anthology Dark Dreamers)
18. Dark Celebration (August 2006)
19. Dark Possession (Coming 2007)

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Scarletti Series:

1. The Scarletti Curse (March 2001)
2. Dark Symphony (February 2003)

Leopard Series:

1. The Awakening in Fantasy (March 2003) (In the anthology Fantasy) (and in the omnibus Fever, 2006)
2. Wild Rain (February 2004) (and in the omnibus Fever, 2006)

Drake Sisters Series:

1. Magic in the Wind (In the anthology Lover Beware)
2. The Twilight Before Christmas (December 2003) (and in the anthology Wicked and the wondrous, 2004),(and in the Holiday Treasure, 2006)
3. Oceans of Fire (April 2005)
4. Dangerous Tides (June 2006)
5. Safe Harbor (Coming 2007)

Ghostwalkers Series:

Dr. Peter Whitney, a brilliant and wealthy scientist, creates technique to enhance the supernatural abilities of psychics. In a secret experiment, he succeeds in enhancing the abilities of already highly-trained military men, turning them into awesome weapons. These men, Ghostwalkers, are capable of entering an enemy’s camp, taking out their target and leaving unseen and unheard. Despite the resounding success, there are problems. Some of the men suffer great pain due to psychic overload, unable to block or filter the thoughts and feelings of others, and need to have anchors (someone to draw the overwhelming emotions away) in order to function.

Just as the men are ready to enter the field, some of the men began to die, supposedly from side effects of the process. To help find the answers, Dr. Whitney brings in his daughter, Lily, who is also psychic. Before they can find the cause, Whitney himself is murdered. It’s now clear that someone is trying to sabotage the experiment and that that person is within the project itself.

1. Shadow Game (September 2003)
2. Mind Game (August 2004)
3. Night Game (November 2005)
4. Conspiracy Game (October 2006)
5. Deadly Game (February 2007)

Awards

Christine is a multiple paranormal romance PEARL Award winner, as well as the winner of the 2004 RIO Award of Excellence. She has also garnered two Golden Leaf Awards (New Jersey Romance Writers) and in 2003 received the Career Achievement Award for Contemporary New Reality from Romantic Times Magazine. Paranormal romance is a literary subgenre of speculative fiction, blending together themes from the genres of traditional fantasy, science fiction, or horror. ...

External links

• Author's official web site
• Author's official MySpace site
• Christine Feehan at the Internet Book Database [1]