Mattie Saunders Series

Quick-tempered, intolerant, and defensive, Mattie Saunders loves birds, but has little time for people. A childhood spent in one foster home after another has made her wary of commitment as evidenced by an absence of close friends and difficulty with intimate relationships. Instead, she's filled her life rescuing and rehabilitating exotic birds people buy as pets and then abandoned.

Mattie’s uncompromising attitude and high integrity frequently put her in conflict with friends, work associates, people in authority – just about anyone who doesn’t have her impossibly high standards. It also puts her at the forefront of environmental and social justice issues. Her passion for birds has her fighting to save endangered species, protect habitat and mitigate the effects of climate change. Her sense of morality demands she speak out against racial discrimination, advocate for gender parity and equal rights for the LGBTQ community.

Romance and action, tragedy and triumph, heartache and happiness – experience all this through Mattie’s eyes in this entertaining and thoughtful five book series that explores contemporary culture, environmental issues and birds.

The Bird Whisperer - Mattie Saunders Series, #3

Book #3 from the series: Mattie Saunders Series

Love, loss, and the call of the wild collide in The Bird Whisperer, Book 3 of the Mattie Saunders Series.

After breaking up with her rock-star partner, Bodine, and mourning the death of a close friend, Mattie seeks solitude and healing in the Rocky Mountains, researching the dazzling hummingbirds she loves.

Peace proves elusive when isolation...

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The Rocker and the Bird Girl (Mattie Saunders Series, #1

Book #1 from the series: Mattie Saunders Series

Meet Mattie Saunders, a fierce, outspoken young woman with a soft spot for wounded birds and wild hearts.

Determined, prickly, and fiercely independent, Mattie has poured her heart and every spare dollar into her failing exotic bird sanctuary. When funding disappears and the birds face homelessness yet again, desperation pushes her to an...

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Cold-Blooded (Mattie Saunders Series, #2

From the series: Mattie Saunders Series

When compassion turns dangerous, trust can get you killed.

Mattie Saunders has always believed in saving creatures no one else will—wounded birds, abandoned parrots, all the wild things left behind. So, when Liz, an old high school friend, asks for help housing reptiles from a refuge under police investigation, Mattie doesn’t hesitate. But this...

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The Bird Witch (The Mattie Saunders Series Book 4)

Book #4 from the series: Mattie Saunders Series

Can love survive opposing worldviews and dangerous circumstances?

The Bird Witch, Book 4 of The Mattie Saunders Series, delivers a spellbinding mix of romance, environmental suspense, and emotional depth.

Mattie Saunders is devoted to rescuing and rehabilitating abandoned parrots at the Saunders Bird Rescue and Sanctuary. Simon, her partner, is...

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The FLOCK (The Mattie Saunders Series Book 5)

Book #5 from the series: Mattie Saunders Series

Rewilding the Blue and Gold Macaw, her companion for twenty years and the last of the exotic birds she’d rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed has left Mattie with a deeper emptiness in her life.

Raised in foster care, Mattie’s never known what family truly means, though she’s felt flashes of its power. Maybe that’s what’s missing: a sense of...

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