 Night Calls — (1996) Publisher: I wasn't eager to learn the Wise Arts. I was just a girl, more interested in running wild with my brothers than developing what my mother called the Gift.
Then the werewolves came, shattering the peaceful nights in our village of Sun Return. They took five of ours — including two babies and my big brother Dolph, before my parents agreed to give me up. They called in Cousin Cory, Aunt Marta, all the known practitioners. The ones who could teach me how to hide in a leaf, "dip" into minds and find the secret herbs that heal.
My childhood was over. It was my turn to straddle the worlds and face the Dark on the other side...
 Kindred Rites — (1997) Publisher: Now that Alfreda has begun to learn the Wise Arts, she is needed at home in the village of Sun Return. The woods around the cabin are alive with playful Poltergeists. Candles light by themselves, and even the rocks dance! There is much work for a young practitioner.
But a more dangerous task calls. For a new family has moved to the frontier; a family with strange ambitions and even stranger powers. And chief among them is a dark, handsome man known in Cat Hollow as Harold Hudson... and known on the Other Side as The Keeper of Souls.
 Wings of Morning — (2005) Publisher: Tales of power and magic often speak of transitions. Magicians pass from day into night, from dark into dawn — they stand on the threshold of change and cast their spells. The stories we usually tell about our heroes are the flashy ones, the calling of the lightning tales, the riding of the storm saga, the splitting the earth and swallowing the enemy whole adventures.
Wings of Morning tells about two heroines, both capable in their own ways of pyrotechnics, but this time learning lessons of subtle power. Anthropologist Brenna Stewart discovers that you can neither run from nor dictate to magic, while young Alfreda Sorensson of Night Calls and Kindred Rites learns that the power of life and death may be the greatest authority of all... and that magic may have nothing to do with it.
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Born in Indiana, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel also spent time in Michigan, Ohio, and California before settling in Texas. She has a B.F.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University. Her obligatory itinerant occupations have included research aide, gold caster, janitor, sales clerk, technical writer, and correspondence school instructor. Once upon a time she was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF/Fantasy Writer. She writes SF and fantasy. Learn more at Katharine Eliska Kimbriel's website.
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