Jennifer Macaire lives in France with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She grew up in upstate New York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She graduated and moved to NYC where she modelled for five years for Elite. She went to France and met her husband at the polo club. All that is true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.

She has published short stories in such magazines as Polo Magazine, PKA's Advocate, The Bear Deluxe, Nuketown, The Eclipse, Anotherealm, Linnaean Street, Inkspin, Literary Potpourri, Mind Caviar, 3 am Magazine, and the Vestal Review. One of her short stories 'Honey on Your Skin', was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In June 2002 she won the 3am/Harper Collins flash fiction contest for her story There are Geckos' Her story 'Islands' appears in the anthology 'A Dictionary of Failed Relationships' published by by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Penguin Putnam.

Her illustrations have appeared in many magazines and most recently in a children's book Christmas Stars by Rita Toews, available at Books Unbound.

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Published Novels:

Virtual Murder - EPPIE finalist science fiction
Angels on Crusade - EPPIE finalist historical fiction
The Promise - EPPIE finalist YA fiction
Time for Alexander - EPPIE finalist -historical fiction
Heroes in the Dust - EPPIE finalist -historical fiction Golden Rose Award
The Secret of Shabaz - Reviewer's Choice award The Road to Romance


Historical novels:

The ISKANDER SERIES starts with 'TIME FOR ALEXANDER' and is published by Calderwood Books.

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Ashley is a one of the elite, a time-travel journalist who has fought to prove herself in a world that that believes her road in life was paved by her parents' money and her title. After winning a prestigious award she is chosen to travel through time and interview a historical figure. Choosing her childhood hero Alexander the Great, she is sent back in time for less than a day to find and interview a man whose legend has survived to the present day. He mistakes her for Persephone, goddess of the dead, and kidnaps her, stranding her in his own time. What follows, after she awakes under a pomegranate tree, is a hilarious, mind-bending tale of a modern woman immersed in the ancient throes of sex, love, quite a bit of vino, war, death, and ever so much more.


ANGELS ON CRUSADE is an exciting time travel back to the Middle Ages. It's published by Cerridwen Press.

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A condemned criminal in the far future is sent to the past to try to save the crown of France. Isobel was a carefree student one day, and in prison the next for the accidental murder of a child. Her fate: life in prison. But she's offered a way out-through time. The crown of France is in peril. A young boy who never should have left Paris, has gone to join the ill-fated 8th Crusade. Isobel's task is to talk young Jean de Bourbon-Dampierre out of joining the Crusade so that he can sire a dynasty. Isobel chooses to go back to the twelfth century, although she knows she will be left to spend the rest of her life there. At least it will give her a chance to redeem herself, she believes. If she succeeds, she will be forced to live the rest of her life in the eleventh century. If she fails...it's erasure and certain death, and someone else will be sent. In any case, she will never see her own time again...


Review Quotes:

"TIME FOR ALEXANDER...Describing what this book is about can be done briefly, but a bald sketch does not even begin to convey what an astounding and impressive feat of writing this book actually is. If you are a fan of mainstream historical fiction and usually avoid standard romances, then you may well find that this book appealing, for although there is plenty about Alexander and Ashley in love, it takes a backseat to the narrator Ashley's account of the man himself, his campaigns, her adventures and ancient mores and customs. The author isn't shy to include homosexual love, too. To omit it would be to make a nonsense of Greek customs of the time. If you like Diana Norman's brand of mainstream historical with adventure and romance, then this is for you. "
~Rachel A Hyde
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"...After reading TIME FOR ALEXANDER, I can honestly say I have never read anything like it before. Sometimes you will come across a book that winds you up so tight, that you must come down before you can pick up another book...this was one of those books. There are only a few authors that have the ability to do this to me. As I got closer to the end, I didn't want it to be over, so you can image how thrilled I was when I found out at the very last page that it was only the first book out of seven...now I am invested in the saga to see it through to the end! I highly recommend you read 'Time for Alexander' by Jennifer Macaire."
~Charlene Smith
© ParaNormal Romance Reviews

ANGELS ON CRUSADE:
"Author Jennifer Macaire's books (here writing as Samantha Winston) are outstanding for their vivid characters and fast pace. Isobel's perceptions and emotions were so clear to me as I read, that I could almost see a web of connections between my nerve system and hers. When Isobel realizes what special punishment her assignment was designed to inflict on her, I had tears in my eyes.
In spite of all, there are people who bring goodness to Isobel's new life. Chief among them are Jean, who boyishly wants her to marry him, and Charles, the youngster who becomes their servant. Winston describes the closeness of their three-way friendship in such a way that, even as readers, we rely on their mutual dependence.
Winston's best-known books are her award-nominated series about Alexander the Great, written under her own name of Jennifer Macaire. TIME FOR ALEXANDER and especially HEROES IN THE DUST are pervaded by a sly sense of the absurd. In contrast, ANGELS ON CRUSADE takes itself seriously. It has a message to deliver, about the Crusades and other religious developments which were about to take place. The humor that sneaks out through the love stories of her other two books is replaced in ANGELS ON CRUSADE with longing and passionate need.
Because Winston's time-traveling heroines feel such culture shock, entering historical worlds from the remote future, we are led to wonder at things which the people born in those times rarely even notice. Readers take note, ANGELS ON CRUSADE is not the place to look for pageantry. Thirteenth century France has come down to earth."
~ © Reviewers Choice Reviews





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