New Voices 9

Six Pacific Northwest authors share excerpts of their coming novels.</p><p>When a Haitian thug dies and comes back as a zombie can the town's Voodoo priestess put aside her desire for revenge and lay the dead to rest?</p><p>-<I>The Last Rites of E. Efton Mondesir</I> Anni Armas</p><p>Evil forces threaten to destroy Earth. To her awe and terror Marianne finds she has a central role in the joint Earth-Cosmos plan to save the planet.</p><p>-<I>The Mission of Marianne</I> Gail Donnelly</p><p>In post-War Hungary a small group of deportees with glorious pasts and a miserable present must choose between survival and honor.</p><p>-<I>The Glory of the Defeated</I> Csaba Hegyvary</p><p>Argentina's all-female Evita Peron Division carried their memories hopes and dreams into battle. More than soldiers fell in the Atacama Desert.</p><p>-<I>Atacama</I> Robert Seifert</p><p>Mirabai celebrated poetess of 16th century Rajasthan must choose between her spiritual devotion and her husband's love amidst the royal family's accusations of treason.</p><p>-<I>Blue Tryst</I> Tanmeet Sethi</p><p>Despite the peaceful aura of their Cascade Mountain cabin long-suppressed conflicts surface neighbors grab for land and Jill and her family face losing everything.</p><p>-<I>Cabin in the Woods</I> Susan Thomas</p>