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    Hawking a Future
    Hawking a Future
    Hawking a Future
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    Hawking a Future

    By Zenina Masters

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    Being a shifter that doesn’t shift has left Hayley living a nice, normal human life. Her parents dumped her into the human system where she used her senses to keep herself safe, and it wasn’t until she was a teen that the full scope of her genetics was explained to her.

    Hijacked to the Crossroads, Hayley is bewildered by the shifter traditions and even more so at the elf who won’t leave her side. She tries to explain that she has two beasts that do not come out and play, but when their contact gives her enough energy, one of her animals makes her a liar.

    Tovin is a hunter by trade and enthralled with the lush curves of the woman who captured his focus the moment she arrived. Her first beast is a surprise, but it is the second that shocks him. Hayley has two beasts in her body, but is there room for an elf?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateMay 1, 2015
    ISBN9781487403102
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      Hawking a Future - Zenina Masters

      Two beasts that won’t show their faces in one body built entirely of curves, Hayley is ambushed to the Crossroads where she meets the elf she never dreamed of.

      Being a shifter that doesn’t shift has left Hayley living a nice, normal human life. Her parents dumped her into the human system where she used her senses to keep herself safe, and it wasn’t until she was a teen that the full scope of her genetics was explained to her.

      Hijacked to the Crossroads, Hayley is bewildered by the shifter traditions and even more so at the elf who won’t leave her side. She tries to explain that she has two beasts that do not come out and play, but when their contact gives her enough energy, one of her animals makes her a liar.

      Tovin is a hunter by trade and enthralled with the lush curves of the woman who captured his focus the moment she arrived. Her first beast is a surprise, but it is the second that shocks him. Hayley has two beasts in her body, but is there room for an elf?

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      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.

      Hawking a Future

      Copyright © 2015 Zenina Masters

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0310-2

      Cover art by Carmen Waters

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      Hawking a Future

      Shifting Crossroads Book 27

      By

      Zenina Masters

      Chapter One

      Hayley Hyland kept her face impassive as another survivor told her story. Her senses were pricked for any changes in heart rate or major signs of distress. The counsellor did most of the heavy lifting; she was just here for the panic.

      The last thing I remember was getting into my car outside the grocery store. The young woman was sitting with her hands flattened to her thighs, her hair straight and her eyes hollow.

      She continued her tale of being abducted, imprisoned and abused at the hands of the elves who considered her a fuckable animal.

      Hayley focused on the fluttering pulse of the woman next to the speaker. She gave the counsellor a slight nod, and the woman’s eyes flicked in acknowledgement.

      The panicking patient slowly breathed more easily, and when the speaker finished, the counsellor called an end to the day’s session.

      Hayley moved from her post and headed over to Molly’s side.

      I managed to calm her, but do you know the trigger?

      The reference to the cuffs and collar. She started to panic when they were mentioned, and it got worse as the abuse was described. She was about to shift, so I let you know.

      Thanks, Hayley. Do you know what you are going to do after this group completes?

      They began walking through the halls as the group session broke up and the patients left with their attendants.

      I will go back to my day job. My family leave is almost up, so I will either have to go back or find a new place to work. She shrugged. Hayley had taken every form of leave possible when she was called to monitor the newest survivors of the latest raid on a fey compound. That had turned into three more raids and a total of seventy souls that were on the edge of suicide and who needed constant monitoring for signs of depression and panic. Self-injury was a definite possibility.

      We will dearly miss you. You have been a godsend. Molly sighed and rubbed the back of her neck.

      The Council asked and I came. The same reason you are here. Your Guild called and you came. I don’t have a magical talent like you do, but I have done what I could.

      And you and your senses have done very well.

      Hayley smiled and turned to face the briskly stepping being approaching them. Counsellor Dennis had a tense look on his face.

      Hayley, there is someone here to speak with you. You had best get to the offices. We can’t have them roaming around.

      Hayley reached out, squeezed Molly’s hand and headed through the wide and bright halls to the offices.

      If there was someone waiting that Dennis didn’t want to mention, it couldn’t be good.

      Two tall and pale figures waited for her. They were dressed with understated elegance, long trousers, polished shoes and immaculate snow-white shirts covered by the dove-grey trench coats that hung open a discreet amount.

      Their pale-green eyes, long white-flax hair and the pointed ears extending out of the silky locks told her that they were the first fey she had ever seen in the flesh.

      The office manager smiled in relief. "Here she is. I have cleared the inner boardroom for

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