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Karen A. Wyle

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Karen A. Wyle is the author of multiple science fiction novels, including The Twin-Bred Series: Books 1-3; YA novel Water to Water; and near-future novels Division, Playback Effect, Who: a novel of the near future, and Donation. Her first novel outside the SF category was the afterlife fantasy/family drama Wander Home. She then turned to historical romance with her Cowbird Creek series, including What Heals the Heart, What Frees the Heart, What Shows the Heart, and What Wakes the Heart. She returned to fantasy with 2023's Far From Mortal Realms: A Novel of Humans and Fae. Her latest novel is The Decision/A Novel of Germany, inspired by a crucial incident in her own family history.

Wyle has also published one nonfiction work, Closest to the F
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Twin-Bred (Twin-Bred #1)

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The Baby

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Division

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Reach (Twin-Bred, #2)

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Release Day! THE DECISION is officially out, and here's the introduction explaining why

 It's Release Day for The Decision! (That's the Amazon Kindle link, and the paperback is just one tab over -- but if you prefer to buy your paperbacks elsewere, here's the bookshop.org link.)

This book has a special origin. Of all the amazing family stories I could feature in a novel, this is the only one where the main character is not a family member, and not even known to our family -- except fo

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“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!”
Karen A. Wyle, Twin-Bred

“For now, as he drifted toward dreaming, what came to him were not images of grappling and lust, but a sort of phantom copy of the bed where he lay, a dream of future days where he shared such a bed with a woman who had a claim on him, and who claimed him in return.”
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“Joshua Gibbs felt sun on his face and thought about opening his eyes. He decided to wait. He had some blessings to savor that wouldn’t need sight.”
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