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  Loving a Stranger

  A Kindred tales Novel

  Evangeline Anderson

  Loving a Stranger

  Evangeline Anderson

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  Copyright © 2018 by Evangeline Anderson

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  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  Brides of the Kindred series

  Claimed (Also available in Audio)

  Hunted (Also available in Audio)

  Sought (Also Available in Audio)

  Found (Also Available in Audio )

  Revealed (Also Available in Audio)

  Pursued (Also Available in Audio)

  Exiled (Also Available in Audio)

  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 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 (a Kindred Christmas novel)

  Taming the Giant

  Bridging the Distance

  Loving a Stranger

  Finding the Jewel (coming soon)

  Born to Darkness series

  Crimson Debt (Also available in Audio)

  Scarlet Heat (Also available in Audio)

  Ruby Shadows (Also available in Audio)

  Cardinal Sins (Coming Soon)

  Dessert (short novella following Scarlet Heat) (Also in Audio)

  Alien Mate Index series

  Abducted (Also available in Print and Audio)

  Protected (Also available in Print and Audio)

  Descended (Also available in Print and Audio)

  Severed (Also available in Print and Audio )

  The Cougarville Series

  Buck Naked (Also available in Audio)

  Cougar Bait (Also available in Audio)

  Stone Cold Fox (Also available in Audio)

  Big Bad Wolf (coming soon)

  The Institute series

  The Institute: Daddy Issues(Also available in Audio)

  The Institute: Mishka's Spanking

  The CyBRG Files with Mina Carter

  Unit 77: Broken

  Unit 78: Bred

  Compendiums

  Brides of the Kindred Volume One

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

  Born to Darkness Box Set

  Contains Crimson Debt, Scarlet Heat, and Ruby Shadows all in one volume

  Stand Alone Novels

  Purity (Now available in Audio)

  Stress Relief

  The Last Man on Earth

  Anyone U Want

  Shadow Dreams

  Hunger Moon Rising

  Cougar Christmas

  Planet X (Also available in Audio)

  Deal with the Devil (Also available in Audio)

  The Sacrifice (Also available in Audio)

  Blood Kiss

  Take Two

  The Pleasure Palace

  YA Novels

  The Academy(Now available in Audio)

  *Author's Warning*

  Though I have tried to handle it in a delicate way, readers with a past history of domestic abuse may find parts of this book disturbing. Sadly, many of the situations my heroine encounters are taken from true accounts of abused women. If you are in an abusive situation, please seek help.

  In the US you can visit the National Domestic Abuse Hotline online or, if you’re afraid your computer is being monitored, call 1-800-799-7233

  If you are in the UK, you can call the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline at 0808-2000-247

  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

  Epilogue

  Sneak Peek at the next Kindred Tales novel: Finding the Jewel

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  Chapter One

  “Commander Sylvan? There is a warrior here to see you. A Reeve J’lorn? He says you…called for him.”

  Sylvan couldn’t help but hear the note of distaste in the communications officer’s voice. No doubt the male had recognized his guest for what he was—an M-Switch Kindred—what some called a “Snatcher.”

  Sylvan had good reason to invite the M-Switcher here so he kept his own voice neutral when he spoke.

  “Very well. Allow him entrance, please.”

  There was a muttered grumble of complaint—most unprofessional, Sylvan would have to speak to the officer—and then a tall, dark form filled his office doorway.

  Reeve J’lorn had trouble written all over him, from his pitch-black hair and matching eyes to the slouching, cat-like way he moved. His cinnamon-brown skin was marked by a scar over the bridge of his hawk-like nose and his lips were a thin ribbon of sardonic scarlet.

  Instead of a jewel-toned uniform shirt like other Kindred wore, J’lorn had on a black leather duster which fell to his boots and tight black leather trousers to match. Twin blasters were strapped over his lean hips and Sylvan was betting he had other weapons—many more—hidden from view. He looked like what he was—a pirate and not one who would be content with just stealing your valuables.

  No, Reeve J’lorn would happily hijack your body too—which was exactly why Sylvan needed him.

  As an M-Switch Kindred, he was one of the rare Switch Kindred who, instead of switching bodies with his mate, was only able to jump into the body of another male and take over his life for a time.

  This ability had earned the M-Switchers the derisive nickname “body-snatchers” which was shortened to just “snatchers” after a time. They were reviled and avoided by the rest of the Kindred community, much as the Touch Kindred had once been because of their singular ability to use their Touch Sense to touch others without using their physical hands. But Sylvan had known several honorable Touch Kindred and he was betting that not all the “snatche