Vulcan’s Kittens

Linnea Vulkane is looking forward to a long, lazy summer on Grandpa Heff’s farm, watching newborn kittens grow up and helping out with chores. That all goes out the window the night Mars, god of war, demands her grandfather abandon her and return to Olympus for the brewing war. Now Old Vulcan is racing around the world and across higher planes with Sekhmet to gather allies, leaving Linn and an old immortal friend to protect the farm and the very special litter. But even the best wards won’t last forever, and when the farm goes up in flames, she is on the run with a daypack, a strange horse, a sword, and an armful of kittens. Linn needs to grow up fast and master her powers, before the war finds the unlikely refugees...

Cedar Sanderson is a writer, librarian, and avid reader. She grew up in Alaska and Oregon, and now lives in Ohio. While writing Vulcan’s Kittens she drew from her own unusual upbringing to create the locales and characters she brings to life in her first young adult novel. She started writing this story for her oldest daughter while she was at summer camp, and mailed it to her in sections. Her daughters all read it and enjoyed it so much, they challenged her to write it longer, into a novel, for NaNoWriMo 2011. She did what they wanted, and now the story inspired by her own children has come to life. Her second novel, Pixie Noir, will be released in Dec. 2013.