Covenants

Barbara Karmazin

Now Available in Trade Paperback

BRIDGET O’KEEFE has her entire life planned down to the last detail. She’ll complete a three-year contract with the small town of Lacrimas, North Carolina and wipe out the enormous school debts she incurred to become a physician. Afterwards, she'll have her pick of any genetics lab in the country for full time research. She doesn’t need any personal entanglements with the Harkers, a strange and reclusive family who own a thirty-mile section of swampland near Lacrimas.

Little by little, they pull her into their lives and into a mystery that stretches back to the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island and the mists of prehistory where myths and legends walked hand in hand with humanity.

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What Reviewers are saying:

This is a different story than DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD. That was all about space travel and flight training. COVENANTS takes place on earth in the swamplands. Along with Bridget, we learn about the Sidhe and their traditions and way of life. Bridget learns this information in bits and pieces from many different sources. This story deals more with the history of the Sidhe and how they managed to make their way on our planet by making COVENANTS with their neighbors when they helped them out. These were all oral promises that were made by people of the community to the Harkers. The COVENANTS were handed down through the generations and were always honored. This story is also filled with adventure and plenty of it, right down to an emergency surgery on Shelley and Nathaniel. This is definitely a story I recommend reading.

--Chere Gruver, The Best Reviews

Combining deep complex relationships inside a terse medical romantic thriller, Barbara Karmazin provides her audience with a powerful tale of the impact of a welcomed outsider on a closely knit Southern family. Bridget is a great protagonist who struggles between a discovery that feels to her like betrayal and joining the group that has welcomed her as a full blooded member. Besides loving the name Lilith Harker, readers, who are unaware of Ms. Karmazin, need to obtain this fine book and DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD as both are great novels.

--Harriet Klausner, The Best Reviews

About the Author:

With 28 years of experience as a bilingual (Spanish/English) caseworker under her belt, Ms. Karmazin utilizes a unique blend of multicultural knowledge for her Science Fiction. When she was seven, she read George MacDonald's "The Light Princess" and became an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy ever since. She incorporates the same sense of adventure and wonder to her SF stories.

During 1999, 2000 and 2001, three of her short stories were published in Hadrosaur Tales, a print SF magazine based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD, her first novel, is available from Atlantic Bridge Publishing. DOWN CAME A BLACKBIRD takes place in an alternate future where the extraterrestrial Sidhe migrated to Earth during humanity's infancy and their advanced technology was mistaken as 'magic'.

Her second book, the prequel to Down Came a Blackbird is COVENANTS.

COVENANTS tells about the Harkers whose mysterious lineage links Roanoke's Lost Colony to a time when myths walked the land with humanity.

She is currently hard at work on a sequel entitled OUT OF THE DARK which continues the adventures of Cait, Indio and Tiny on Earth upon their return from the asteroid mining expedition.

A new book of SF/EROTICA entitled THE HUNTRESS is a new work in progress. THE HUNTRESS Ms. Karmazin worked as the publisher-interviewer for Mystic Visions ezine during 2001 and her non-fiction article, The Dreaded Synopsis was published in three RWA newsletters and is available at www.FictionAddictions.net/contributed/karmazin.html

Another short story, She is Not Dead, is scheduled for 2004 publication in Spiritual Visitations, an anthology of true ghost stories edited by Heather Froeschl.

Her personal website where you can read the first three chapters of her books is located at http://www.sff.net/people/selkiewife

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ISBN 1-931761-74-4

Cover Art: Ariana Overton

Covenants is the Prequel
to "Down Came A Blackbird"

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