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  For a moment, Mia wondered if it had always been this way. Had the city been so bleak before the Revolution, or had everything been better like her grandmother claimed?

  Unbidden, a picture flashed in her mind’s eye—another city but a greener one. Clean air and flowering trees everywhere surrounded high, white buildings with big, shiny glass windows. And he was there—smiling at her. His hair like a golden brown mane around his face, his eyes clear green like a tropical sea. Clear green until they turned golden that was…golden and animalistic and his features began to change. He beckoned to Mia and said her name in a deep, growling voice. He…

  No. Mia pushed the strange image away. It was nothing—just a fragment of a dream but somehow it filled her with fear…and made her ache inside. Why did she keep having the strange dreams every night? Was it because of what she’d done at work—because of the act the Commandant had forced her to commit? Was her mind trying to take her away to someplace else, someplace where she could finally be at ease? But if so, why did the man’s eyes change? Why did his voice take on that strange, growling quality?

  There is no such place anyway, whispered a little voice in her head. Not after what you did.

  Such dreams of a different life—such longings—were sedition and Mia knew it. Thank goodness The EYE had no way to look inside a person’s head or likely everyone in the Republic would wind up in their basement!

  Anyway, there was no point in thinking such things, she told herself. This was her home and good or bad, it was where she would live the rest of her life. The clean city and the man with the golden brown mane and green eyes that turned golden were just a dream.

  With a sigh, she began the long trudge to the station where she would catch a rickety, rattling tram that would take her to the tall, gray building that housed the Care Center in the middle of the city. There she would work a twelve hour shift and then come home exhausted, fall into her narrow, hard bed, and wake up to do the same thing tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that over and over again.

  This was her life and there was no point in dreaming about anything different or better.

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  Brides of the Kindred series

  (Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)

  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 (Also Available in Audio)

  CHAINED (Also Available in Audio)

  DIVIDED (Also Available in Audio)

  DEVOURED (Coming Soon in Audio)

  ENHANCED

  CURSED

  ENSLAVED

  TARGETED

  FORGOTTEN

  SWITCHED

  UNCHARTED

  UNBOUND

  SURRENDERED

  VANISHED

  IMPRISONED

  BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME ONE

  Contains Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found

  BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME TWO

  Contains Revealed, Pursued and Exiled

  BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME THREE

  Contains Shadowed, Chained and Divided

  BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FOUR

  Contains Devoured, Enhanced and Cursed

  BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FIVE

  Contains Enslaved, Targeted and Forgotten

  BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME SIX

  Contains Switched, Uncharted and Unbound

  All Kindred novels are now available in PRINT.

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  Kindred Tales

  The Kindred Tales are side stories in the Brides of the Kindred series which stand alone outside the main story arc.

  These can be read as STAND ALONE novels.

  MASTERING THE MISTRESS

  BONDING WITH THE BEAST (Also Available in Audio)

  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

  BONDED BY ACCIDENT

  RELEASING THE DRAGON

  SHARING A MATE

  INSTRUCTING THE NOVICE

  AWAKENED BY THE GIANT

  KINDRED TALES VOLUME 1

  Contains Mastering the Mistress, Bonding with the Beast and Seeing with the Heart

  KINDRED TALES VOLUME 2

  Contains Freeing the Prisoner, Healing the Broken and Taming the Giant

  KINDRED TALES VOLUME 3

  Contains Bridging the Distance, Loving a Stranger and Finding the Jewel

  Born to Darkness series

  (Paranormal / Action-Adventure Romance)

  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)

  BORN TO DARKNESS BOX SET

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

  Alien Mate Index series

  (Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)

  ABDUCTED (Also available in Audio)

  PROTECTED (Also available in Audio)

  DESCENDED (Also available in Audio)

  SEVERED (Also available in Audio)

  ALIEN MATE INDEX VOLUME ONE

  Contains Abducted, Protected, Descended and Severed all in one volume

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  All Alien Mate novels are now available in PRINT.

  The Cougarville series

  (Paranormal / Action-Adventure Romance)

  (Older Woman / Younger Man

  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 CyBRG Files with Mina Carter

  (Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)

  UNIT 77: BROKEN

  UNIT 78: RESCUED

  The Institute series

  (Daddy-Dom / Age Play Romance)

  THE INSTITUTE: DADDY ISSUES

  (Also available in Audio)

  THE INSTITUTE: MISHKA’S SPANKING

  The Swann Sister Chronicles

  (Contemporary Fairy / Funny / Fantasy Romance)