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Christine Raffini, known primarily for her studies in nineteenth-century romanticism and the French and Italian Renaissance, has
lately turned from research to fiction.
Four of her novels, written over the past twelve years, have been picked up by PARKEAST LITERARY, an agency with offices in
Washington, D.C. and Palm Coast, Florida.
Ms. Raffini's first novel, Daughters of Fire, is the story of Zoe Wren, a headstrong and spoiled young girl from
Tennessee who ends up as a radio operator in World-War Two France, risking her life and all she holds dear to win out
against the enemy.
In a second novel, The House at Hidden River, Pola Varderi must defend herself and her family against an intruder who
has returned to claim her fortune, her life, and even her memory.
Raffini's third novel, Craven's Gap, takes place during the Depression. Eugenia Hearne, a gentle soul becomes the
wife of a cold-blooded lawyer, and is forced to imperil her life and that of her unborn child to escape him in the Pennsylvania wilderness.
The fourth novel, Falls the Shadow, is set in the 1940s. Roxie, a ten-year old girl, confronts the aftermath of her murdered
sister's death, her mother's descent into alcoholism and her own persisitent and unwanted clairvoyance. Here Chrinstine Raffini writes
under her mother's maiden name, Kristina Karste.
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