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by Cheryl Brooks It's hard to believe the first book in the original Cat Star Chronicles series, Slave , (the ebook version is currently free!) was released a little over ten years ago, but there's no denying the math. That first contract called for a six-book series. Then along came a contract for three more. Then the book I simply had to write, Rebel , made it an even ten. I took a break from the cats after that, but I always figured I could keep writing about them forever. After all, Zetithian children are born in litters of three, so I'd given myself plenty of material to work with. I had my pick of the next generation, but the obvious choice of where to start was with the first children born to the characters in Slave and the second book, Warrior . Enter Larry Tshevnoe and Althea Banadänsk. Their voyage to romance is a bit bumpy, but suffice it to say, they were meant for each other from the very beginning. They just had to figure it out for themselves. So....

by Cheryl Brooks I went out with my camera on Easter Sunday to take a few pictures of one of the prettiest displays of flowering trees in my back yard in recent years. In the foreground is a tulip magnolia, which is a purple, later-blooming variety than the pink ones that get really big, but also tend to get blasted by a late freeze. On the right is my only surviving nectarine tree. No matter how much I spray it,  the fruit always rots, but the blossoms are gorgeous! I picked a few flowers for the table for our Easter dinner and took a picture of them before bringing them inside. This next picture represents my 2016 springtime success story. For the past two years, the weeping cherry that I planted about 25 years ago has been suffering from a fungal infection that causes brown spots on the leaves in late summer, after which the leaves turn yellow and fall prematurely. Needless to say, when springtime rolled around, I hardly saw any blooms at all. Summer before...