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New! The Notorious Mrs. Winston Available from Putnam/Berkley Books May, 2007
Her novels have been praised for possessing meticulously accurate historical detail and a bountiful array of vibrant characters. Now Mary Mackey makes a grand return with a beautifully written story set during the American Civil War, as a fierce abolitionist in a loveless marriage falls helplessly in love with a Confederate soldier.
Married to an older man who sees her as little more than a possession, Claire Winston feels trapped and unhappy, but she knows her personal suffering pales in comparison to the hardships of the nation, which is teetering on the precipice of civil war. And she has a secret that helps ease her despair: her family's devotion to the cause of assisting runaway slaves to freedom, a purpose she embraces, and of which her husband is unaware.
Still, the empty pretense of her marriage makes her vulnerable to temptation, and soon she finds herself captivated by John Taylor, her husband's nephew. In his arms she finds the passion and tenderness her marriage lacks, but as much as John loves her, he is devoted first and foremost to the Confederacy, and to the band of rebel guerillas known as Morgan's Raiders.
Separated from John for more than two years by the forces of history, and by her husband's machinations, Claire will travel boldly across the war-torn country in search of her lover. Until, disguised as a male soldier, she finds herself drafted by none other than General Morgan himself, swept up in the greatest guerilla raid in American history, and caught between her loyalty to the Union and her love for John.
*Publishers Weekly
Acclaim for Mary Mackey's previous novels
"Grand adventure and a grand reading experience."
- Pat Conroy
"A complex, colorful saga, engrossing and realistic."
- Publishers Weekly
"Inventive and imaginative."
- The New York Times
"Deserves a place on the shelves next to the work of Jean Auel."
- Booklist
"Fascinating."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Breaking The Fever
Mary Mackey's new collection of poetry published by Marsh Hawk Press.
Also available from www.spdbooks.org
Marsh Hawk Press has a poetry collective which features mary Mackey's work http://www.mhpress.blogspot.com/
"Most poets seem to write poetry with the will, relentlessly suppressing every part of themselves that isn't ecstatic. Mary Mackey writes as a whole person - mind and senses-and the poems are marvelous."
- Dennis Nurkse, author of Burnt Island
"The poetry in Breaking the Fever offers truths both personal & political, visions both actual and imaginatively broad. Ranging in setting from her childhood Indianapolis to a Brazilian favela, in subject from ecological tragedy to marital passion to the thoughts of a thoroughly contemporary Leda, Mary Mackey's crisp-edged perceptions are set down in this new collection of poems with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye."
- Jane Hirshfield author of Given Sugar, Given Salt
"Your poems are delightful . . . even when they are elegiac"
- Wendell Berry, author of Given, from a letter to the Author
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Sweet Revenge
In this delightfully wicked, deliciously funny romantic comedy, Kate Clemens introduces the unconventional Nora Wynn, a woman who finds herself in the revenge-consulting business - and business is booming. But revenge isn't so sweet when someone turns the tables on Nora herself . . . and this time, love may find a way to set things right.
Publication date: May, 2004
Purchase from www.bookpassage.com
and Amazon.com
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The Last Warrior Queen
Like Jean Auel and Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Mackey takes us to a place where myth and reality meet. The year is 3643 B.C.E. The great matriarchal cities which have dominated the earth are about to disappear as hordes of nomads overrun the fertile valleys of Mesopotamia. Born into one of these tribes is Inanna, a woman who speaks the language of plants and whose touch can heal. Led by her powers to the City of the Dove, where love is sacred and sex is an act of worship, Inanna fulfills her destiny by becoming a great warrior queen.
Available at Iuniverse.com
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The Stand In
A spoiled movie star and an underpaid grocery store check-out clerk trade lives with hilarious consequences. Based on Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper", this novel is a comic look at the Hollywood Pecking Order. Written under Mackey's pen name Kate Clemens.
Purchase from www.bookpassage.com
and Amazon.com
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The Year the Horses Came
Volume One of The Earthsong Trilogy evokes the moment in pre-history when marauding nomads brought horses, male gods, and war to a goddess-worshipping Europe that had known peace for thousands of years. Against this perilous backdrop, a passionate, dangerous love develops between Marrah, a gifted priestess, and Stavan, one of the invading warriors.
“A researcher’s precision combined with storytelling magic.”
—Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess
“Vivid, dramatic, compelling.”
—Marge Piercy, author of Woman on the Edge of Time
"Fascinating . . . the best of its kind" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (author of "The Mists of Avalon")
Available at Iuniverse.com
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The Horses at the Gate
"A woman's epic quest in a stirring novel of prehistory."
--The New York Times
As nomad invaders ride south to attack the peaceful, goddess-worshipping people of Shara, the preistess Marrah is initiated into the cult of the Dark Mother. Armed with powerful magic, she and her nomad lover, Stavan, must fight for the survival of their children and their people. Volume two of The Earthsong Trilogy.
"A heart-pounding evocation...whose lessons lie in the hearts of the characters."
--Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul.
"Literary grace and powerful storytelling."
--Theodore Roszak
Available at Iuniverse.com
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The Fires of Spring
“Fascinating…” —Marion Zimmer Bradley
In the year 4300 B.C., a young woman named Keshna comes of age as a female warrior and daring avenger. When the nomad diviner Changar kidnaps Queen Marrah’s son Keru, Keshna vows to hunt Changar down, but Changar has put Keru into a trance, taken possession of his soul, and turned him against his own people. Volume three of The Earthsong Trilogy.
“Mackey combines a researcher’s precision with storytelling magic.”
—Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess.
”Heart-pounding…”
—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul.
Available at Iuniverse.com
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Her published works include four volumes of poetry, Split Ends, One Night Stand, Skin Deep, and The Dear Dance of Eros, published by Fjord Press, a novella Immersion, and eight novels McCarthy's List, Doubleday, 1979; The Last Warrior Queen, Putnam, 1983; A Grand Passion, Simon & Schuster, 1986; The Kindness of Strangers, Simon & Schuster 1988; Season of Shadows, Bantam, 1991; The Year The Horses Came, Harper San Francisco, 1993; The Horses At The Gate, Harper San Francisco, 1996; and The Fires of Spring, Dutton Signet, 1998.
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