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Susan McDonough was born and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She has worked for Bob's Burger Bar, McDonald's, the Seattle Times, the McMinnville News Register, the Yamhill County Alternative School, and Spokane Falls Community College. She has spent the last ten years teaching high school. Snail's Pace placed second in a contest by Publishing Online and was published by them in January, 2000. They subsequently went out-of-business. Arabella's Gift won the Los Angeles Romance Writers' Best Bet for Bestseller, and was to be published by Wordbeams, but they went out of business. So it goes. Susan is now working on Elizabeth's Journey, as well as a collection of short stories called Ferry Findings, and a children's fantasy tentatively titled Cat's Magic. You can find images evocative of her stories on Susan's Pinterest page: pinterest.com/suewrite/. She lives with two cats, two kids and one husband.

Victorian orphan Susannah McKay is delighted when the Chinese man in Hong Kong offers her a job as a governess. However, even the adventurous Susannah is taken aback to find that the young male she is to teach is an alien aboard a spaceship - an alien who looks quite disconcertingly like a snail. "That is another thing Snail's Pace has going for it: this is a one-sitting book. If you still aren't sure of the value of e-books, here is a perfect model to test-drive. Take it out for a spin and you'll see you really don't need paper to enjoy a good story." -- Lisa DuMond, The SF Site

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Teen & Young Adult

She doesn't believe herself to be a witch, but she has abilities that some believe are a gift from the devil. Arabella is doing her best to care for Kestlemeer and its people. but when her father dies and his dying order is that she marry Alexander, Arabella rebels. She knows she can count on her special talents to help her escape. What she doesn't anticipate are the Scots, the bandit, the dragon, and Alexander himself.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Romance

Winga married Jakor to escape her restrictive home planet, Gaia, which was settled by Earthwomen. The somewhat paranoid governing council of Gaia fears the influence of other planets on the very religious matriarchy of Gaia. Winga wants to experience other ways of life, so she defies her culture and her mother, to marry an offworld man and leave Gaia. Unfortunately, Jakor dies on their honeymoon in what she is told is an accident. She doesn’t believe it was. Captain Rifkin Lile is told by his superior officer to marry – or at least pretend to marry -- Winga in order to gain entry to the planet and continue Jakor’s investigation of the possibility of drug smuggling on Gaia. Rif doesn’t want to marry Winga, Winga doesn’t want to marry Rif, but both find it expedient to make the match. Rif and Winga have to work out their relationship, pick their way through enormous cultural differences, figure out exactly what is going on and why, and determine what to do about the discoveries they eventually make about what is really happening on Gaia and why. If their relationship can withstand the strain, they will help make revolutionary changes to society on Gaia.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Romance