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  Finding the Jewel

  A Kindred tales Novel

  Evangeline Anderson

  Loving a Stranger

  Evangeline Anderson

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  Evangeline Anderson Books

  Copyright © 2018 by Evangeline Anderson

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  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  Claimed (also available in audio)

  Hunted (also available in audio)

  Sought (also available in audio)

  Found (also available in audio)

  Revealed (coming soon in audio)

  Pursued

  Exiled

  Shadowed

  Chained

  Divided

  Devoured

  Enhanced

  Cursed

  Enslaved

  Targeted

  Forgotten

  Switched

  Uncharted

  Unbound

  Surrendered

  Vanished

  Kindred Tales series (side stories in the Brides of the Kindred world which stand alone outside the main story arc.)

  Mastering the Mistress

  Bonding with the Beast

  Seeing with the Heart

  Freeing the Prisoner

  Healing the Broken (the first ever Kindred Christmas novel)

  Taming the Giant

  Bridging the Distance

  Loving a Stranger

  Finding the Jewel

  Alien Mate Index Series

  Abducted: (also available in print)

  Protected: (also available in print)

  Descended: (also available in print)

  Severed: (also available in print)

  Cougarville series

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  Cougar Bait (Also available in Audio)

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  Big Bad Wolf (coming soon)

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  Deal with the Devil(also available in audio)

  Planet X (also available in audio)

  The Sacrifice (Also available in Audio)

  Blood Kiss

  Born to Darkness Paranormal series

  Crimson Debt (now available in audio)

  Scarlet Heat (now available in audio)

  Ruby Shadows (now available in audio)

  The CyBRG Files with Mina Carter

  Unit 77: Broken

  Unit 78: Bred

  *1. All Kindred novels are now available in PRINT

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  *Author's Note*

  There is a bit of slightly rough sex in here but it is not intentional. If you're scratching your head saying, "what?" then read on to find out what I mean. I just wanted to let you know so nobody gets upset.

  ; ) Evangeline

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  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  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

  Epilogue

  Sneak Peek at Book 2 of the CyBRG Files by Evangeline Anderson and Mina Carter

  Sneak Peek at Brides of the Kindred 22, Imprisoned

  Also by Evangeline Anderson

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  Prologue

  “Let me out! Let me out, damn it!” Chloe pounded on the door and shouted at the top of her lungs—not that it would do any good. Not that anyone would let her out. They never did.

  Still, she couldn’t stop trying. She had been stuck in this hell-hole for almost a month and it was driving her crazy.

  “Let me out!” she shouted again, knowing it was useless. When she’d first been kidnapped she had spent a whole day and night screaming and pounding on the door and it had done her no good at all. But Chloe wasn’t a quitter so every once in a while she tried again.

  With an angry sigh, she slumped to the floor with the unbreakable wooden door at her back and surveyed her prison.

  It certainly was a far cry from the holding cell where she’d once spent the night after a peaceful protest she’d joined in college had turned into a riot. There were no bars, no bare floor, no lidless toilet streaked with unmentionable substances in one dirty corner. In fact, quite the opposite.

  Her jail was a freaking mansion. Or more accurately—a Smart House dressed up like a mansion.

  It had glossy hardwood bamboo floors, sleek modern furniture in shades of black, white and taupe, an oval fire pit in the middle of the living room, an infinity pool to swim in, a vast king-sized bed with five thousand thread count sheets, a soaking tub with massage jets, and a state of the art, surround sound entertainment theater.

  But none of those things mattered to Chloe. None of them made the house any less than what it was—a prison.

  A prison that was slowly starving her to death.

  As if in answer to her morbid thoughts, a square of light suddenly began to grow in front of her, about three feet above her head. It was an empty cube for a moment, then, suddenly a blue worm-like creature appeared, framed by the golden light. It had long eyes on stalks and multiple arms and legs sticking out from its wormy body. All of it was dark, indigo blue.

  The first time Chloe had seen this, she freaked out. Now it was almost normal—if anything in her new life could be considered normal.

  “What do you want?” she snapped at the creature who was staring at her with disapproval on its wormy-face—although how she could tell the worm was disapproving of her, Chloe would have had a hard time explaining. It was more a feeling the worm radiated than an actual expression.

  “Chloe Deems,” it said in a high, squeaky voice. “You are in violation of your scheduled routine. Why have you not weighed in yet? Your body-fat measurement system is calling for you, yet you ignore it!”

  Sure enough, from somewhere upstairs in the luxurious bathroom, Chloe could hear a plaintive voice c