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Cate Tiernan is the pseudonym of American author Gabrielle Charbonnet, who writes children’s fiction and young adult fantasy.

The author of book series such as Balefire, Birthright, and Immortal Beloved, Tiernan is best known for writing the Wicca: Sweep Series which portrays the Wiccan escapades of a group of high school students.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, she first studied writing and Russian language and literature at New York University, before transferring to Loyola University in New Orleans, where she graduated with a degree in Russian.

Tiernan worked as an assistant to the head of the Juvenile Audio and Video department at Random House in NYC, where she wrote her first children's books.

During the period, she also took part in the editing of "The Secret" Circle by L.J. Smith.

Tiernan currently lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family.

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Genres: Children's Book, Fantasy / SF, Young Adult

United States

Pseudonym: Cate Tiernan

Balefire

  1. A Chalice of Wind (2005)
  2. A Circle of Ashes (2005)
  3. A Feather of Stone (2005)
  4. A Necklace of Water (2006)

Birthright

  1. Darkest Fear (2014)

Immortal Beloved

  1. Immortal Beloved (2010)
  2. Darkness Falls (2011)
  3. Eternally Yours (2012)

Wicca : Sweep

  1. Book of Shadows (2001)
  2. The Coven (2001)
  3. Blood Witch (2001)
  4. Dark Magick (2001)
  5. Awakening (2001)
  6. Spellbound (2001)
  7. The Calling (2001)
  8. Changeling (2001)
  9. Strife (2002)
  10. Seeker (2002)
  11. Origins (2002)
  12. Eclipse (2002)
  13. Reckoning (2002)
  14. Full Circle (2002)
  15. Night's Child (2003)
Birthright

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Balefire

A Chalice of Wind

After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard loses her widowed father in a tragic car accident, she is forced to leave the only home she’s ever known to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. New Orleans greets Thais with many secrets and mysteries, but none as unbelievable as the moment she comes face to face with the impossible—an identical twin, Clio. 

Thais soon learns that she and the twin she never knew come from a family of witches, that she possesses astonishing powers, and that she, along with Clio, has a key role in Balefire, the coven she was born into. Fiery Clio is less than thrilled to have to share the spotlight, but the twins must learn to combine their powers in order to complete a rite that will transform their lives and the coven forever.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2005
ISBN: 978-1595140456
Publisher: Razorbill
A Circle of Ashes

Fiery Clio is less than thrilled to have to share the spotlight with her newfound twin, seventeen-year-old Thais Allard, but the two must learn to combine their powers in order to complete a rite that will transform their lives and Balefire forever.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2005
ISBN: 978-1595140463
Publisher: Razorbill
A Feather of Stone

Seventeen-year-old Thais Allard has finally begun to unlock the magick within her, but she fears her powers are not meant for the purpose her coven intends.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2005
ISBN: 978-1595140470
Publisher: Razorbill
A Necklace of Water

With the Balefire coven resurfacing to replicate the original rite, twins Clio and Thais are fearful about what is to come when their longtime enemy makes his presence known again and their strong bond is threatened when they discover that they are both in love with the same person.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2006
ISBN: 978-1595140487
Publisher: Razorbill

Birthright

Darkest Fear

Vivi’s animal instincts are her legacy—and may be her downfall—in this start to a romantic fantasy series that will appeal to fans of The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Vivi has known the truth about her family—and herself—since she was thirteen. But that doesn’t mean she’s accepted it. Being Haguari isn’t something she feels she’ll ever accept. How can she feel like anything but a freak knowing that it’s in her genes to turn into a jaguar?

Now eighteen, Vivi’s ready to break away from the traditions of her heritage. But all of that changes with her parents’ shocking, devastating deaths and the mysteries left behind. Vivi discovers family she never even knew she had, and a life open with possibility. New friends, new loyalties, and even romance all lay ahead—but so do dangers unlike anything Vivi ever could have imagined.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1442482456
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Immortal Beloved

Immortal Beloved

Nastasya has spent the last century living as a spoiled, drugged-out party girl. She feels nothing and cares for no one. But when she witnesses her best friend, a Dark Immortal, torture a human, she realizes something's got to change. She seeks refuge at a rehab for wayward immortals, where she meets the gorgeous, undeniably sexy Reyn, who seems inexplicably linked to her past.

Nastasya finally begins to deal with life, and even feels safe--until the night she learns that someone wants her dead.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-0316035910
Publisher: Poppy
Darkness Falls

You can run from your past, but it will always catch up.

Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason it never seems to get any easier. She's left behind her days of debauchery to find peace and forgiveness at River's Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals. There she's uncovered her family's epic history, reclaimed her magickal powers, and met Reyn, whom she dubs "the Viking god. " Just as she settles into her new life, Nastasya learns that her old friends might be in town....

Reuniting with her gorgeous and dangerous ex-best-friend, Innocencio, Nas wonders if she'll ever be truly free of her dark legacy. Is Incy dangerous, power-hungry, and wicked? Or is he the only one who truly understands Nas's darkness? Either way, Nas is desperate to find out who she really is-even if the answer kills her.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0316035941
Publisher: Poppy
Eternally Yours

After 450 years of living, Nastasya Crowe should have more of a handle on this whole immortal thing....

After a deadly confrontation at the end of Darkness Falls, the second Immortal Beloved novel, Nastasya Crowe is, as she would put it, so over the drama. She fights back against the dark immortals with her own brand of kick-butt magick...but can she fight against true love? In the satisfying finale to the Immortal Beloved trilogy, ex-party-girl immortal Nastasya ends a 450-year-old feud and learns what ""eternally yours"" really means.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-0316035958
Publisher: Poppy

Wicca : Sweep

Book of Shadows

Morgan and her best friend, Bree, are introduced to Wicca when a gorgeous senior named Cal invites them to join his new coven. Morgan falls for Cal immediately? and discovers that she has strong,inexplicable powers.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0142409862
Publisher: Speak
The Coven

Cal, now Morgan’s boyfriend, helps her accept the truth: Wicca is in Morgan’s blood. As Morgan learns more about Wicca, she realizes that she needs to find out more about her parentage. The answers are there, but she doesn’t know how to find them.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0141314013
Publisher: Puffin Books
Blood Witch

Morgan continues to unravel her past and the story of her birth mother as her relationship with Cal develops. She begins to understand more about her power as a blood witch when she finds her mother's tools of magic. Morgan can't quite relax into her relationship with Cal and the rather mysterious Hunter begins to feature more in her life. Cal and Hunter fight and, when Morgan intervenes, Hunter falls over the edge of the cliff into the rocks and water below. The book ends as Morgan begins her seventeenth birthday convinced that she is responsible for Hunter's death.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0141314020
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Dark Magick

Evil forces are after Morgan, forces connected with a dark wave of magick. And she knows something is wrong with the way Cal is acting, although she can?t put her finger on it. Cal is definitely hiding something, but is he out to hurt her, as Hunter says?

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0142409893
Publisher: Speak
Awakening

For now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca--its thorn and its rose.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0142410202
Publisher: Speak
Spellbound

Morgan knows that a great battle is to come. More immediately, she senses that someone is out to harm Hunter. Is it a human or a witch?

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0142410219
Publisher: Speak
The Calling

Morgan and Hunter travel to New York City, Morgan to seek out information about her birth parents and Hunter to continue his quest to end the deadly Woodbane conspiracy. But in their search for answers, they find themselves in terrible danger.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0142410226
Publisher: Speak
Changeling

When Morgan receives a shocking revelation about her family, she’s thrown into a moral tailspin, believing that her essential nature is evil. Is her dark heritage too powerful to overcome?

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2001
ISBN: 978-0142410233
Publisher: Speak
Strife

Morgan desperately searches for strength as her parents get angry with her for neglecting her schoolwork to pursue her magical studies, and as her coven-mates are persecuted for their beliefs.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0142410240
Publisher: Speak
Seeker

Hunter is reunited with his father, who vanished years before. But Hunter doesn?t find his childhood hero?instead he finds a dark and shadowy version of the man he once knew.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0142410257
Publisher: Speak
Origins

Morgan learns about her roots as a witch and the origins of a particularly evil spell when she reads the manuscript her boyfriend found in Canada, a book by her ancestor, Rose MacEwan, a seventeenth-century Scottish witch.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0142301098
Publisher: Puffin Books
Eclipse

Morgan knows that a dark wave of destruction is on its way. Everyone she loves is in jeopardy. So Morgan, Hunter, and a surprising new ally join together to fight a battle that will test their powers more than any of them can imagine. In this struggle of good versus evil, bright magick versus dark, who will survive to tell the tale?

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0142410271
Publisher: Speak
Reckoning

Alisa is still coming to terms with being a blood witch. Longing for a sense of belonging, or understanding, Alisa seeks out her mother's family. While there she finds comfort in some of the mysteries of her past, but she also uncovers danger, hostility, and fear - and she must make a choice that could change her future.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0142410288
Publisher: Speak
Full Circle

Hunter, Morgan, and Alisa. Together the three worked to defeat the most unspeakable evil known to witches. Now the danger they face is just as deadly. But to vanquish their new foe, they must first defeat the weaknesses within themselves.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0142410295
Publisher: Speak
Night's Child

Moira Rowlands knows little about her mother, Morgan's, past as the most powerful witch of her generation, but the secrets that Morgan still holds could have painful consequences for Moira.

Author: Cate Tiernan
First Release: 2003
ISBN: 978-0142501191
Publisher: Puffin Books