Local Author Showcase in Castle Rock, Colorado, on June 21

I will be signing copies of The Felinius Healer at the following event: 

 

Click on the link for more information:

 

http://douglascountylibraries.org/Events/local-author-showcase-june-2015

 

I look forward to seeing you.

The Felinius Healer Excerpt

Kira searched his eyes again, and tested him. He told the truth. The interesting thing about his story was his mental musings. He always figured on a country club wife. She saw the women he dated in college. They were all human, all refined, and all cultured. From his musings, she deduced he planned to fly back to Dhanghai, and join his father's medical clinic. Tristen didn't plan on love. He planned on a respectable social position, and a great medical career.

"Now, I have a few more important questions. First, do you intend to ostracize me from the Agra Medical Clinic?" She didn't know why she asked because she already knew he was authoritative, demanding, controlling, and dictatorial. She didn't see how they could possibly work together. And she knew dictatorial people rarely had her best interest in mind. When push came to shove, Tristen would do the same thing as Chief Bahadir. He'd send her away.

 

"No one is being ostracized here. You're welcome to abide with the human settlement. And if you follow my directions, you're welcome to share my patients. Our arrangement is quite simple. When you're in my hospital, I'm the head physician. And when you're out here..." Tristen spread two arms over the expanse of the surrounding jungle, "You're in charge. This is your healing world, and you're in charge out here."

 

"It's my birthmark isn't it? You think I'm dangerous, power hungry, and evil. And you'll send me away. You won't share your patients with me. I know it." She tried to look into his mind one more time, but the effort was too much. Fear seized her heart. She slipped from his mind. A mind touch was useless. It was time for her to go …  

   

The Felinius Healer

Kira wields mystic power, heals the wounded, and practices herbal medicine on the Lucian Islands. As she is about to come into her prime, the Janga Elders ostracize her for an ominous birthmark, and she loses her future patients. With her medical career in ruins, her only chance to practice healing depends on the distinguished field surgeon, Dr. Tristen McIntyre. He won't entertain the freewheeling charades of a hot shot healer. Driven by a need to save lives, the orphan Kira will confront her abandonment issues and the celebrated doctor. Not only must she convince him she is the town's future healer, she must overcome human prejudice. Since she is a Cheetah huntress, her tribal ways are a major detriment. One man is the gateway to her dreams or the death knell to all she holds dear, and worst of all she has fallen in love with him.

To purchase The Felinius Healer, click on the following link:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Felinius-Healer-Novel-ebook/dp/B00TNO3IJE

About the Author

Mark E. Scott was born in Landstuhl, West Germany. He spent his early years in the Ohio Valley where he excelled in academics and athletics. He devoured Leon Uris's Mila 18 while discovering the world of historical fiction. John Steinbeck enthralled him with East of Eden, and he read The Complete Works of Shakespeare to appreciate our rich literary heritage. He stenciled Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" on his bedroom wall. On more than one occasion, he remembered Kipling's words.

He searched for spiritual answers in Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", and briefly studied under a Zen Master. D. H. Lawrence inspired him to tell endearing short stories combined with mystic elements.

While engaged in meditational isolation, he discovered that every case of enlightenment was brought through a cosmic accident. Since Nirvana could not be attained through a frontal assault, he returned to the practicality of construction and custom homebuilding. Project management taught him sequential planning, foresight, and resourcefulness. His heroes and heroines are proactive in self empowerment. If the felinius huntress doesn’t have the skills, she works diligently to find a new skill set.

Mark E. Scott read Jim Butcher and loved the heroic wizardry of Harry Dresden. He longed to write novels like those, but had no vision for his own fantasy world. Little did he realize the White Wizards would lay the foundation for the Xuni Mystics of Felisia.  

A few years later, he stumbled across the Carpathian Series of Christine Feehan and marveled at her high action and steamy love scenes. Paranormal romance had changed dramatically over the last twenty years, and now he had a vision for his own fantasy world. 

 

For more than three decades, he carried the image of a feline woman in his mind. She was wild like the great cats, and her only ally was a settlement doctor. Beyond the basic premise of a half human/ half feline huntress he didn't know where to go with the plot. In the middle of Christine Feehan's Dark Series, he put down her novel, and declared to his wife, "I know how to write my own series." In addition to his debut novel, The Felinius Healer, he has composed work drafts for more than forty stories. The rich world of Felisia awaits the fantasy romance reader.