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About Roxanne Bland
Little has changed since I was a child--I escape reality every chance I get. No more wandering through the Smithsonian, though--too many tourists these days. Now I use the pen--or pixels, as it were. My stories cross several genres--science fiction, fantasy, romance, sometimes a little horror--all rolled up into one book. One term for what I do is "mashup," which I like because it sounds so edgy. As for how I came to write mashup, it was simply that when I began writing in earnest, I had only the vaguest notion of what genre meant. At that time, bookstores grouped science fiction and fantasy on the same shelf, and labeled the collection "sci-fi/fantasy." Naturally, I thought sci-fi/fantasy was a single genre and was surprised to learn they were not. I was also told that science fiction and fantasy did not, could not, and would not, ever mix. That surprised me too--since I'd already done it.
All these years later, I'm still hooked on writing mashup. Mashups are the kind of books I like to read. I've read tons of fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance--and as the decades rolled by, I found I had become bored. There was a kind of sameness about them--the characters were different and the situations were usually different, but I suppose what I wanted was a monkey wrench thrown into the mix. Something new to wrap my head around, make me sit up and pay attention. Like a rollicking, adventurous romance between a werewolf and a space alien. I suppose what I like most about writing mashup is that it's so freeing because I'm not bound by the restrictions that define genre. And amazing things can happen when one colors outside the lines. What's really gratifying is after tossing my books into the wind, I've discovered there are others who appreciate stories that cross the boundary of the ordinary into the wild, weirdly fantastic. It's this sort of thing--the freedom mashup gives me to allow my imagination to run amok--that makes the joy and despair of writing so worthwhile.
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Expelled for her intolerance. Seduced by a dangerous attraction. One woman must risk her life to open her heart.
Priestess Tehi won’t hide her headstrong opinions. So, against the rules of her goddess grandmother, the gifted scientist boycotts her religion’s orgiastic ritual to avoid mixing with a race she despises. And when she’s banished for her act of defiance, she’s forced down a treacherous path into the belly of her own bigotry.
Exiled and tasked with heading the garrison stationed at a landing beacon located in a remote, technologically backwards village, Tehi desperately shields her secret medical research from unworthy eyes. But when an irresistible chieftain ensnares her senses, her sacred vows and closed mind are challenged by the power of love.
Will Tehi’s forbidden desires survive the wrath of her gods?
The Moreva of Astoreth is the first book in the epic Peris Archives science fiction romance series. If you like whip-smart heroines, wild rituals, and lessons of redemption, then you’ll adore Roxanne Bland’s eye-opening tale.
Buy The Moreva of Astoreth to confront intergalactic prejudice today!
WARNING: Adult Content. Use Caution.
Previously Published As The Moreva of Astoreth
Vampire regent Kurt, mage Garrett Larkin, and alpha werewolf Parker Berenson are in a world of trouble.
Already divided by love and jealousy, the three discover their auras are inextricably bound, the result of a spellcasting gone terribly wrong. Each one’s aura has been invaded by the auras of the others, with consequences both frightening and deadly.
Worse yet, Shen’zae Melera, interstellar assassin and Parker’s love, has returned to Earth with dire news: She didn’t return alone. She’d been followed by her nemesis, Mag Beloc, and his fleet of warships. Even if Beloc recaptures her, Melera knows that Earth will suit his purposes, and that his presence may well become permanent.
Drawn together by choice and fate while doing what they had to do, can Kurt, Garrett, and Parker now find a way to undo the magick that binds them, and with Melera, stop an alien invasion before it begins?
WARNING: Profanity, Violence, Graphic Adult Content. Use Caution.
They’re destined to save the preternatural world. But one of them is willing to let everyone die…
Seattle, Washington. Garrett Larkin is terrified of failing. Chosen to cast a powerful spell, the ambitious mage feels the pressure to rescue the entire supernatural community from the city’s humans, who’d like nothing more than to annihilate them. But the shifter she needs to complete the mystical tryst and protect the city flat-out refuses.
Alpha werewolf Parker Berenson is falling apart. A blood slave to the vampire Master who uses him for his own entertainment, Parker is plummeting into a self-destructive cycle of drunken escapades, wreaking havoc in Seattle’s bars and threatening to expose his true nature — an automatic death sentence. As for him, even if every last paranormal in the city perishes, there’s no way he’s working with the witch and the bloodsucker who abused him.
With a series of grisly murders stoking the tension between bloodthirsty humans and preternatural creatures to the breaking point, Garrett resolves to bring the wounded lycanthrope to heel at any cost. But when Parker falls hard for a fierce alien warrior-queen, his eye turns away from the conflict around him and onto one in the stars.
Can Garrett convince Parker to help her before the deepening crisis erupts into a full-scale massacre?
The Underground is the gripping first book in The Underground urban fantasy science fiction romance mashup series. If you like savage heroes, brutal battles, and thoughtful looks at persecution, then you’ll love Roxanne Bland’s dark drama.
Warning: Contains profanity, violence, and graphic sex that may make some readers uncomfortable. Use caution.
Buy The Underground to fight for survival today!
They’re destined to save the preternatural world. But one of them is willing to let everyone die…
Seattle, Washington. Garrett Larkin is terrified of failing. Chosen to cast a powerful spell, the ambitious mage feels the pressure to rescue the entire supernatural community from the city’s humans, who’d like nothing more than to annihilate them. But the shifter she needs to complete the mystical tryst and protect the city flat-out refuses.
Alpha werewolf Parker Berenson is falling apart. A blood slave to the vampire Master who uses him for his own entertainment, Parker is plummeting into a self-destructive cycle of drunken escapades, wreaking havoc in Seattle’s bars and threatening to expose his true nature — an automatic death sentence. As for him, even if every last paranormal in the city perishes, there’s no way he’s working with the witch and the bloodsucker who abused him.
With a series of grisly murders stoking the tension between bloodthirsty humans and preternatural creatures to the breaking point, Garrett resolves to bring the wounded lycanthrope to heel at any cost. But when Parker falls hard for a fierce alien warrior-queen, his eye turns away from the conflict around him and onto one in the stars.
Can Garrett convince Parker to help her before the deepening crisis erupts into a full-scale massacre?
The Underground is the gripping first book in The Underground urban fantasy science fiction romance mashup series. If you like savage heroes, brutal battles, and thoughtful looks at persecution, then you’ll love Roxanne Bland’s dark drama.
Warning: Contains profanity, violence, and graphic sex that may make some readers uncomfortable. Use caution.