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    A Hunter's Dream
    A Hunter's Dream
    A Hunter's Dream
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    A Hunter's Dream

    By Viola Grace

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    Iris has used her ability to dream her target’s location to gain recognition and to be the most efficient hunter she could be. The psychic knives that appear at the ends of her hands help her to stun rather than kill prey when a death is not necessary. Nothing escapes her, not livestock, not lost people. Anything that runs, she can hunt.

    When the Citadel calls on her to help find a lost object in an alien jungle, how can she resist the urge to test her skills on another world?

    Venin is a throw-back shifter of the Azon variety. He has the ability to embrace his peoples’ most ancient form and use the instincts that accompany it to his advantage.

    Partnering with Iris is not his first inclination but once he gets to know the hunter, he wants nothing more than to sprint with her in the wild and test out both of their basic instincts to the max.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateJun 13, 2012
    ISBN9781771111959
    A Hunter's Dream
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    Viola Grace

    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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      A Hunter's Dream - Viola Grace

      Iris has used her ability to dream her target’s location to gain recognition and to be the most efficient hunter she could be. The psychic knives that appear at the ends of her hands help her to stun rather than kill prey when a death is not necessary. Nothing escapes her, not livestock, not lost people. Anything that runs, she can hunt.

      When the Citadel calls on her to help find a lost object in an alien jungle, how can she resist the urge to test her skills on another world?

      Venin is a throw-back shifter of the Azon variety. He has the ability to embrace his peoples’ most ancient form and use the instincts that accompany it to his advantage.

      Partnering with Iris is not his first inclination but once he gets to know the hunter, he wants nothing more than to sprint with her in the wild and test out both of their basic instincts to the max.

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      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      A Hunter’s Dream

      Copyright © 2012 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-77111-195-9

      Cover art by Martine Jardin

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

      Published by Devine Destinies

      An imprint of eXtasy Books

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      A Hunter’s Dream

      Tales of the Citadel Book 5

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Iris watched the beast circle its target. The beltharo was a predator of the highest order and yet, it always chose the weakest targets. The current object of its hunger was a young woman who huddled, trembling, against a rock.

      Galria? Please stay still and don’t try to run. I will draw its attention, but if you move, it will turn to attack you. Do you understand? If you cannot bear the sight, close your eyes and cover your ears the moment that I engage it.

      The woman stared at her, wide-eyed at her appearance. I understand. Her voice was a low whisper.

      Iris fought a smile. She had been attending a formal event in her town, receiving an award for being the prime hunter of the region. Her hair was up in elaborate curls, her best boots rose to mid-thigh and her matching vest covered her in the softest leather.

      She looked like she was about to attend the most formal of hunts and as she engaged her psychic knives, she felt like it.

      Concentrating on the business at hand, Iris let out a harsh groan to draw her prey. The beltharo whirled and lashed its scaled tail inches from the young woman pinned against the rock.

      A peculiar calm swept through her as it always did when she hunted. The beast charged and she sidestepped, slashing at the animal with her psychic knife. It screamed and arched violently away and she pursued it.

      The beltharo curled away and tried to attack her once again. She leapt into the air and came down on its neck, burying her knives into its spine. The animal collapsed and whimpered as it shifted slightly under her.

      When she felt consciousness leave the beast, Iris got to her feet. She retracted her psychic knives and went to rescue her target.

      Galria? We can go now. I have a rhesh waiting for us. Iris put her arm around the girl and helped her to her feet.

      I have been lost for two days. How did you find me? Galria was spotted with blood, splashed with mud and very pale.

      It is what I do. The woods are no mystery to me, pet. Iris smiled. The only mystery is why it took so long for your father to ask for help.

      Galria blushed. I told him I was running away with Travez. He must have thought I had gone through with it.

      You obviously didn’t find your young man.

      I couldn’t find the rock where we were to have met and then darkness fell and I got lost.

      She sobbed and Iris gave her a one-armed hug while they walked to the clearing where the clawed and fanged riding beasts were waiting. Have you ridden a rhesh before?

      Galria had a stunned look on her face. "No. I

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