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Authors: Robin Roseau

About the Author

A writer by avocation, Robin has a renaissance interest in many areas. A bit of a gypsy, Robin has called a few places home and has traveled widely. A love of the outdoors, animals in general and experimenting with world cuisines, Robin and partner share their home with a menagerie of pets and guests, although sometimes it is difficult to discern who is whom.

Robin can be reached via email as
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at her web site:
http://www.robin-roseau.com
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Other Works by Robin Rose
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Novels: The Madison Wolves Series

Fox Run

Michaela Redfur is a werefox living a quiet life in Bayfield, Wisconsin. She has a quiet job that gets her out of doors and avoids the werewolves as if her life depended on it. Which it
does.

That all changes early one morning when Lara Burns, the Madison Wolves alpha, introduces herself, much to Michaela's chagrin. Lara explains to Michaela that "we only want to talk", but when a werewolf comes knocking on a tiny, delicate foxes' front door, Michaela knows talking is the last thing in the wolfy mind.

This novel is 93,000 words and is the first in in The Madison Wolves Series.

 

Fox Play

Having now agreed to a commitment relationship, Michaela and Lara turn their attention to a new threat. Durian, alpha of the Chicago wolves, wants Lara's pack for himself in order to replenish his dwindling power.

In the meantime, Michaela faces her fears built from the past while struggling to find her place in the pack.

Fox Play continues the story first begun in Fox Run. This is a novel of 95,000 words.

Fox Mate

Michaela Redfur has been accepted into the wolf pack as their fox, and a wedding with Lara, the alpha, is in the planning. But being accepted into a close-knit clan is not simply a formality. There are rites of initiation and you know you are truly accepted when the dark and ugly is accepted along with the good.

In Fox Mate Michaela, the lone and orphaned fox, finds out how acceptance works - wolf-style: some rough play, lots of love especially when a pack- member is in need of help.

Michaela struggles to hold things together and find peace in time to save the wedding.

This is a novel of 110,000 words. The novel deals with traumatic issues from Michaela's past and contains some graphic violence and scenes that may be disturbing to sensitive readers.

Fox Afield

Lara and Michaela depart on their honeymoon, combining a vacation into an opportunity to practice diplomacy with another werewolf pack. Their honeymoon is interrupted by a frantic phone call to Michaela from an old friend.

The wolves along with Greg Freund's team rush back to Wisconsin to right a wrong, but the clock is ticking.

Michaela and the wolves must go undercover to solve the mystery. In the meantime, Lara's overly-protective nature fires, leading to stress between Lara and Michaela.

This novel of 90,000 words is the fourth Fox novel.

Fox Revenge

Lara is pregnant with twins, and Michaela is fiercely protective. This turns out to be a very poor time to take in a refugee from a neighboring wolf pack, and things grow more difficult when the neighboring alpha demands the wolf's return.

The resulting troubles put Michaela on the opposite side of the issue from Lara, Elisabeth and the rest of the pack, adding stress to all relationships.

This is a novel of 84,000 words.

Fox Dish

While pack shows its delight with the arrival of Lara and Michaela's babies, Michaela vows to keep Celeste and Rebecca safe from all directions. This includes dealing with old enemies.

Michaela's actions have unexpected results, landing Michaela in a fight for her very existence, squared off against everyone she once thought was a friend.

This 80
,000 word novel is the sixth in the Madison Wolves series. It completes the story arc begun in Fox Revenge.

 

Other Novels in the Madison Wolves Universe

Familiar

Moira is able to see something few others see: the aura that surrounds people. What she doesn't understand is what it all means. And then she meets Arianna, who definitely knows what it means.

Arianna recognizes Moira's unique gifts, and she isn't going to let them go to waste, regardless of Moira's consent.

This is a novel of 75,000 words.

The Five Kingdoms

Privateer

Rani Karden finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and becomes a victim of the "civilized" wars of the Five Kingdoms. Along with her brother's wife and children, she finds herself held hostage for ransom aboard the privateer Fleetwind. Sorri Westmere, captain of the Fleetwind, sets out to tame the fiery redhead, but she is soon captivated herself.

Striving to teach Rani that being a hostage isn't as bad as it might sound, Sorri learns that perhaps her choice of careers is an impediment to personal happiness.

Privateer is a fantasy novel of 140,000 words and is the first in the Five Kingdoms series.

Other Novels

Fitting In

Nicole is a 33-year-old, introverted computer programmer dealing with her own difficulties. At a party hosted by her best friends, she meets Alexandra, slightly older, beautiful, and athletic in a way Nicole could never be.

Sparks fly, but their differences, coupled with the stress of meeting the family, drives the two apart. But the stubborn Alex isn't ready to give up, in spite of Nikki's fears.

This is a novel of 93,000 words.

Tresjolie

Tresjolie is a distant, backwater planet, and Wanda Waverly is the new imperial governor. Governor Waverly is very driven to change the planet from backwater to thriving member of the empire.

The people of Tresjolie are not so happy with her plans, which leads to conflict.

While dealing with the conflict, Wanda meets a native, Audra Flying Lynx. Audra is kind and lovely, and Wanda decides mixing pleasure with her life of otherwise all-business, all-the-time sounds pretty good. Up until Audra kidnaps her and forces her to a tour of the planet to see what exactly the Tresjolians are trying to protect.

Tresjolie is a novel of 97,000 words.

The Interrogation

Bethany from North Carolina is about to lose her job, as her company has been sold to a much larger company in Silicon Valley. She spends the weekend in The Bay Area prior to a Monday morning job interview only to meet the dark and dangerous Katrina.

Katrina is a domme and introduces Bethany to a world she's only imagined in her darkest fantasies.

This novel is 61,000 words. This story features sex between two women, bondage, domination and submission.

Lost in the Words

Jessie Mack is a writer living with her two dogs, the students from the nearby college, and the characters in her novels. What she has in her novels she lacks in her ability to maintain a basic human relationship. She hasn't had a lasting relationship in decades.

Fumiko Hayashi is the aunt of one of the students from the college. She sees something special in Jessie. But even Fumiko's patience is tried when Jessie gets lost in the words.

This is a novel of 75,000 words.

Amazon Companion

Maya Softpeace is a schoolteacher from the
oceanside village of Gallen's Cove in the world of Morehama. Gallen's Cove is a peaceful village, except of course during winter gales.

But one day, the peace is broken by a band of Amazon women, who round up the villagers. "This village has broken our centuries-old agreement," the head Amazon explains. "We keep you safe from the demons that would overrun this world, and for that, you must tithe to us so that we may be free to keep the demons at bay." And tithe, it turns out, includes fresh Amazon recruits.

Maya finds herself the most unwilling of recruits taken away from Gallen's Cove, and soon finds herself bound to Malora, the Amazon queen, as her companion. Maya, a schoolmarm at heart, struggles with the Amazon life and finds herself failing for the first time in her life, failing to fit in to the new lifestyle expected of her.

And then Maya meets her first demon.

This is a fantasy novel of 142,000 words.

 

Novellas

 

Stark's Dell

Relocated to the isolated farmhouse of her stern grandmother at age 5, Emily struggles to find friends...until she meets Dee Dee. Older and wiser, Dee Dee guides Emily through childhood and adolescence, sharing Emily's deepest secrets.

But Dee Dee has secrets of her own, and it isn't until it is nearly too late that the two friends discover that what they feel runs deeper and lasts longer than even they can imagine.

Stark's Dell is a long novella of 50,000 words.

The Emergency Claus

While engaged in
overly-playful reindeer games, Santa Claus broke his leg. Now it is up to his daughter, Tabitha, to deliver the Christmas presents.

Tabitha has never been interested in the family business and would much rather run her own consulting business based out of Chicago. She is even less interested in marrying some nice young boy to take over as Santa, but there are some nice (and perhaps a few naughty) women she finds more intriguing.

It all comes to a head when Allison catches Tabitha in her role as Santa.

This is a novella of 25,000 words.

 

Short Stories

 

Cooking for Love

Deb saw herself as short, dumpy, plain, and boring, a former housewife and repressed lesbian who had tried to fit into the expected norm. Her husband had left her three years ago, and in spite of her best friends' efforts, she hadn't had a date since.

Jocelyn was a gorgeous woman with cropped but stylish blonde hair, sharp features, and an athletic build. In other words, the perfect woman in Deb's eyes, and the last woman Deb would expect to want her.

Cooking for Love is an 8000-word short story.

Southern Night

Vacationing in Australia, Amber meets Jackie, several years Amber's senior. Amber finds Jackie commanding and alluring and instigates a meeting.

Southern Night is a short story of 5,000 words.

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2014 by Robin Roseau

 

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