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  Brides of the Kindred

  Book 15: Targeted

  Evangeline Anderson

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  Brides of the Kindred

  Book 15: Targeted

  Copyright © 2015 by Evangeline Anderson

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  Author’s Note #2: I'm happy to let you all know that I am going into Audio in a big way. I put both Claimed and Hunted into the audio format and I had such a great response from readers and listeners, that I have decided to put ALL the Kindred books, plus all my Born to Darkness books into audio. If you have a long commute or you'd like something new to listen at the gym or just around the house, give it a try. The Kindred books are performed by the very talented Anne Johnstonbrown whom I hand-picked to read the series and she really brings the characters to life. Looks for Sought, Found, and Revealed as well as my stand alone book, Purity, to be out in the Audio format by the end of 2015.

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  Hugs and Happy Reading and Listening to you all,

  Evangeline Anderson July, 2015

  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  Brides of the Kindred series

  Claimed (Also available in Audio and Print format)**Read the e-book version for free**

  Hunted (Also available in Audio format)

  Sought (Coming to Audio August 2015)

  Found (Coming to Audio 2015)

  Revealed (Coming to Audio 2015)

  Pursued

  Exiled

  Shadowed

  Chained

  Divided

  Devoured

  Enhanced

  Cursed

  Enslaved

  Targeted

  Forgotten (Coming Soon)

  Mastering the Mistress (Kindred novella available only in Mastered 2 Box Set)

  Born to Darkness series

  Crimson Debt (Also available in Audio) **Read the E-book for free**

  Scarlet Heat (Also available in Audio)

  Ruby Shadows (Also available in Audio)

  Cardinal Sins (Coming Soon)

  Compendiums

  Brides of the Kindred Volume One

  Contains Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found all in one volume

  Stand Alone Novels

  Purity (Coming soon to Audio)

  Stress Relief

  The Last Man on Earth

  YA Novels

  The Academy

  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Kindred 16: Forgotten excerpt

  Kindred Glossary

  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  About the Author

  C

  hapter One

  It was happening again.

  Emily Brooks gasped as a flash of heat swept over her body. It started in her lower pelvis and rolled outward, like flames licking her skin from the inside out, stealing her breath and making every inch of her tingle with unwanted heat.

  Oh God, ohGodohGod…No, please—not this—not this again!

  Her hands clenched into fists at her sides and her toes curled in her sensible low heeled shoes. The shapeless cotton dress she wore was suddenly too hot—sticking to her full-figured body with the dew of sweat that bloomed across her flushed skin. The hair at the nape of her neck was prickling with tension and her eyes burned. Not like she’d gotten soap in them, though—they burned as if there was some strange heat source behind them. As though there was a flame inside her brain that was burning its way out.

  But though all these weird physical problems were uncomfortable and strange, they weren’t what Emily feared the most. She feared the other coming out. The one she sometimes glimpsed in the mirror. The one inside of her who was getting closer to the surface every day…

  “Miss Brooks? Miss Brooks, Avery pushed me!”

  “Did not. Anyway, she pushed me first.”

  “Did not!”

  “Did so!”

  “Class!” Taking a deep breath, Emily forced herself to forget about what was happening inside her and concentrate on the kindergarten class under her care at George Washington Elementary.

  Her stress must have come through in her voice, because all fifteen of her kids got suddenly quiet and looked at her with large eyes.

  Oh God, what do they see? Do they see what I see when I look in the mirror?

  Emily took a deep breath…then another. Calm, she had to be calm. It was only 9:30 and she had to make it until 2:15 when the bell rang for dismissal.

  “Miss Brooks,” ventured Avery Andrews. “Do you feel okay? Maybe you oughta go to the nurse.”

  “I’m fine, Avery. Thank you for your concern though—that’s sweet.”

  Emily did her best to smile at the little boy who was the class clown but so endearing you couldn’t help but love him.

  “You don’t look fine,” Kelsey Pincter remarked.

  “Yeah, your eyes look funny.” Miracle Jackson said. “All sparky and hot. Like you gots a candle in your head, right behind your eyes—like a jack-o-lantern.”

  Like a jack-o-lantern… Emily took another deep breath.

  “I’m just fine,” she said again more firmly. “Or I will be if everyone will settle down before we go into the library. Other students are studying in here so we need to be…what?”

  “Quiet!” they all chorused loudly and each of them put a finger to his or her lips. “Shhhh!”

  Emily tried to smile. Normally her class was the light of her life—she loved kids and since she was never going to have any of her own, being a kindergarten teacher was wonderful. But just now she felt shaky and hot and out of breath—like she’d just run an hour on the treadmill at the gym. Not that she could usually do more than a brisk walk for that long but still—that was the feeling she had.

  “All right then, let’s go in quietly,” she murmured, putting her finger to her lips. “Elbows and tip-toes. Line leader, open the door and