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    Heartbeat of Silence
    Heartbeat of Silence
    Heartbeat of Silence
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    Heartbeat of Silence

    By Viola Grace

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    Veera’s mind broke wide open during a tragedy. A telepathic call for help sent her into a coma where every mind around her was open to hers.

    A stint on an island where no one spoke or thought a harsh word was just what she needed, but when she was offered a chance to live a life out in the open, she agreed to everything that the shape-shifter asked. Life was something that she needed to find.

    Stanik trained to be Veera’s link for eighteen months. When he finally met her, her physical presence sent his senses reeling. The reality was much better than the images her family had sent him to entice him into agreeing to share his mind with hers.

    He gives her stability, and she gives him attitude, a challenge and someone to protect. It is a fairly even swap.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781771114738
    Heartbeat of Silence
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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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      Heartbeat of Silence - Viola Grace

      An open mind is a terrible thing to waste, so armour it up and send it to the Citadel with a fanged shape-shifter watching her every move.

      Veera’s mind broke wide open during a tragedy. A telepathic call for help sent her into a coma where every mind around her was open to hers.

      A stint on an island where no one spoke or thought a harsh word was just what she needed, but when she was offered a chance to live a life out in the open, she agreed to everything that the shape-shifter asked. Life was something that she needed to find.

      Stanik trained to be Veera’s link for eighteen months. When he finally met her, her physical presence sent his senses reeling. The reality was much better than the images her family had sent him to entice him into agreeing to share his mind with hers.

      He gives her stability, and she gives him attitude, a challenge and someone to protect. It is a fairly even swap.

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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.

      Heartbeat of Silence

      Copyright © 2013 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-77111-473-8

      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.

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      Heartbeat of Silence

      Tales of the Citadel book 18

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Veera Halig kept to herself and worked at her job in the silence of the tombs. Her family had had to petition nine levels of government to get her assigned to the island of the honoured dead, and it probably saved her life.

      Veera passed one of the sisters, the guardians of the island. The woman inclined her head and walked on, her mind a blessed blank. It was one of her favourite things about the island. The Sisters of Silence prided themselves on keeping calm minds while they worked to honour and maintain the graves of fallen warriors.

      It made it easy for someone like Veera to cease attaching to the minds of others when everyone around her kept their thoughts calm and minds blank.

      Veera swept out the Crypt of Ashes with attention to detail. It was the least she could do for the room and board she had been enjoying for the last eighteen months. She had taken on each duty that the sisters had given her with a grateful heart.

      Her mind was finally calm. Sure, she could feel the minds of the continent three hundred miles away, but they were a murmur in the background compared to the roar that they had been.

      As she finished the floor of the crypt, she looked out and watched the birds flirt with the fish down on the beach. It really was a beautiful place if you could forget the grief and tragedy that had caused it to be occupied by the bodies of the fallen. If you were a soldier of Farellen and you died in battle, you came to the island, whether your family could visit you or not.

      The sisters were here to act as family and caretakers for the dead. They prayed, chanted and spoke to the dead, all in complete silence. The actions of caretaking were their voices.

      It had been a bit eerie for the first few weeks being the only person on the island authorized to make a noise but after a while the sisters accepted her listening to her sister’s music and her dancing in the Courtyard of Repose. She was so overjoyed at the stress lifted from her mind that she had to express it somehow.

      Veera tidied up and moved on to her next task, that of greeting the newest arrivals and consoling them in their loss of life. Speaking to stone monuments was not something she would normally do, but it came naturally after she saw one young woman buried, her family weeping as they were taken back to the continent.

      Since she could not console the family, she spoke to the woman as she was lowered into the ground for her first five years on the island. After nature had taken its course, she would be moved from her place in the ground and her bones would be stored in the crypt with only a small plaque to mark her place. It was not the kind of life Veera wanted for herself.

      Halfway to the garden of new arrivals, she heard a gong. Veera paused. There was no service scheduled for today.

      The gong rang again marked with a sharp chime and a third gong.

      Someone is calling. Veera turned and headed for the dock on the far side

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