Minnette began her writing career penning riveting Star Trek episodes to entertain her classmates in fourth grade. She started a fantasy novel when her first son was born, but set it aside to raise six kids. During her career, she has written newspaper articles, jingles for radio commercials, written, produced, and directed several plays, and stacks of un-mailed tirades to anyone who would listen. After her children were grown, she finished her first novel (started twenty years before) and has never looked back. When she is not writing, she helps teach remedial reading, writing, and math at a local elementary school. Minnette currently resides in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband, having replaced the children with five cats and one dog (there shall always be six!). She has four novels coming out this year (Starsight, I & II, The Centurion & The Queen, The Breton & The General), and a feature in A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers, with more on the way. She says of herself: “Somewhere between thirty and dust...red hair, blue eyes...six kids, one slightly used husband, and any number of pets from time to time... wanttabe hippy... wanttheirmoney yuppie... pro musician and actress for 20 years...native Oregonian... lover of music, beauty and all things green. Willing slave to the venerable muse, may be shoes be ever ruby, may her nails be ever bright”. Favorite quote: “I am only an egg.” Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land – Favorite saying: Beatings and Blessings, my dear.

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The Centurion and the Queen

Marius has been stationed on the island of 60AD Britannia for sixteen years, his demotion from the famous Praetorian Guard to Centurion brought about when he was suspected of involvement in the assassination of Caligula. He is intimately aware of his duty, even when it clashes against the natural compassion he tries to subdue, and he secretly wants nothing more than to get off this accursed island so he can return to his home. Once a celebrated Roman hero, Marius still clings to the old traditions as a fair but tough leader to his men. When Delia enters his life, she challenges everything he believes, effortlessly strips away years of Roman conditioning, and angers him to the point of betraying his training--and his oaths. He simply cannot resist her.

Delia is sister to an indolent Celtic king, but that role has turned to nothing more than another surrender. All she can do now is help her people survive the gradual conquest by Rome and their suicidal pride as so many throw themselves against the unstoppable Roman machine. Fighting desperately to save as many as she can, Delia knows there is no hope for her future. Her training as a warrior and a queen means very little in the wake of a declining civilization, and this beautiful, proud woman has to struggle for every joy. The last thing she expected was to find herself craving the touch of an enemy.

They discover an impossible love, a surprising passion they both thought had died, and something they had never imagined, or thought they deserved. They are thrown into the clash between an Iceni queen with 50,000 angry Bretons and a clever Roman general with only 10,000 legionnaires. Marius and Delia have their lives, their beliefs, and their roles turned inside out as they find themselves fighting on opposing sides, in love, and unable to change the future. The revolution would spark their desire, but nearly destroy them both.