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    Tell A Soul: Bend-Bite-Shift, #3
    Tell A Soul: Bend-Bite-Shift, #3
    Tell A Soul: Bend-Bite-Shift, #3
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    Tell A Soul: Bend-Bite-Shift, #3

    By Olivia Hardin

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    He's the dependable one. The strong and steadfast one. Still, there's one woman who has always turned his firm resolve on end. Langston is surprised beyond belief to find Kristana again, and this time without a husband. Has fate finally given them the chance to be together? Kristana can't escape her intense attraction for the strange giant Langston, but the murmuring voices in her head are threatening to drive her mad. Can she find a way to trade one torment for another and thereby find true love?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlivia Hardin
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781524248222
    Tell A Soul: Bend-Bite-Shift, #3
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    Olivia Hardin

    When Olivia Hardin began having strange movie-like dreams in her teens, she had no choice but to begin putting them to paper. Before long the writing bug had her and she knew she wanted to be a published author. Several rejections plus a little bit of life later, and she was temporarily “cured” of the urge to write. That is until she met a group of talented and fabulous writers who gave her the direction and encouragement she needed to get lost in the words again. Olivia’s attended three different universities over the years and toyed with majors in Computer Technology, English, History and Geology. Then one day she heard the term road scholar and she knew that was what she wanted to be. Now she “studies” anything and everything just for the joy of learning.  She's also an insatiable crafter who only completes about 1 out of 5 projects, a jogger who hates to run, and she’s sometimes accused of being artistic. A native Texas girl, Olivia lives in the beautiful Lone Star state with her husband, Danny and their puppy, Bonnie.

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      Tell A Soul - Olivia Hardin

      Chapter 1

      AS KRISTANA COUNTED out the exact change for the cost of the ad in the Rosemary Review, she felt her blood turn cold.  She didn’t have much money left.  If this ad didn’t produce a paying job she’d be reduced to begging on the street. 

      As it was, she was already living out of her little beaten down 1997 Ford Escort.  She’d traded her 2011 Lexus for this old jalopy and some cash to keep her going.  Thank goodness Brock had put that vehicle in her name only. It was the one good thing he’d done for her.

      When Brock died suddenly in a freak construction accident, Kris’s entire life had crumpled.  She’d learned that in twenty years her husband had accumulated more debt than they could pay off in twenty lifetimes.  To make matters worse, she wasn’t compensated for the accident that killed her husband because he’d been trespassing.

      Debt collectors hounded her until the final blanket of protection was stripped away from her.  She would receive no spousal insulation from Brock’s debts because Brock was not her husband.  He’d never officially recorded the certificate and their marriage was just another of his many shams.  Every single thing he owned was liquidated to cover his debts.

      She’d been a happy, devoted, picture perfect wife – a Stepford wife, some of their friends had called her.  Those friends disappeared like scattering cockroaches when the pieces of her plastic life began to be revealed.  She was left destitute, without a home, and only a very few small personal items of her own. 

      On the day Brock died, something popped inside of her, literally.  She’d been home going over a shopping list when her entire mind swung 180 degrees.  She knew he was dead even before she received the call.  In that moment she also knew that she didn’t love him and that she was in a place she wasn’t supposed to be.  Her life wasn’t right; it was terribly wrong.  It was only about three days after when the voices began.  They whispered at first, a few distinct voices.  Then more and more joined them until she couldn’t distinguish any one voice from another.  She knew what it meant.  She was going insane.  Now all she could do was hold on and try to survive until someone finally figured it out and locked her in a padded cell somewhere.

      IT WAS JUST WHAT HE expected it to be.  Jill had given him careful directions and called her friend, Charlie, to advise him that Langston would be arriving.  The giant smiled to himself.  His beautiful blonde friend was sometimes so focused on outside distractions that she missed the most obvious solutions.  Langston was a powerful witch and he had no need for directions.  He could contrive a doorway to just about any place on earth.  He used that ability sparingly because most people wouldn’t understand a doorway that appeared out of thin air and a giant stepping through the portal.

      As he approached the hospital he stopped short when the little person, whose hand held tight to his, refused to move.  Langston glanced down at the cherubic blonde girl.  She placed two fingers in her mouth and turned huge brown eyes up at him.

      Chelsea, you are safe with me.  I will let no one hurt you.  Do you understand?

      She took a moment to mull his words over, then sniffed and took a few tiny steps to get even with him again.  He smiled, nodded to her, and they headed into the hospital.  A soft whooshing sound accompanied the opening of the automatic doors.  He remembered Jill telling how Doc had forced the doors open the first time she’d come here.  Obviously new doors were part of the renovations they’d completed.

      Langston and Chelsea walked towards the T-intersection at the front of the short entryway.  A shuffle-shuffle-tap sound repeated over and

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