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    By Viola Grace

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    Cleo got a visit from a recruiter, but her parents told her that under no circumstances could she join the Volunteer Project. She was sitting in the project offices, trying to decline their offer when matters were taken out of her control.

    Waking on the moon was bad enough, but waking in the confined space of a tank with everyone looking at her naked body made her furious. After nearly breaking through the heavy tank, she was given the rest of her adaptation while asleep.

    Helbri has never heard of a Bride being this much trouble, but as her Familiar, he needs to watch her reactions and know her well enough to predict them. Staring at her is no hardship, but knowing that she is coming with him under duress is another matter.

    Gaining her trust is going to take everything he has.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateApr 15, 2016
    ISBN9781487406493
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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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      Prohibit - Viola Grace

      Stolen to save her world from infiltration, Cleo learns to trust the man who gives her freedom by remaining at her side.

      Cleo got a visit from a recruiter, but her parents told her that under no circumstances could she join the Volunteer Project. She was sitting in the project offices, trying to decline their offer when matters were taken out of her control.

      Waking on the moon was bad enough, but waking in the confined space of a tank with everyone looking at her naked body made her furious. After nearly breaking through the heavy tank, she was given the rest of her adaptation while asleep.

      Helbri has never heard of a Bride being this much trouble, but as her Familiar, he needs to watch her reactions and know her well enough to predict them. Staring at her is no hardship, but knowing that she is coming with him under duress is another matter.

      Gaining her trust is going to take everything he has.

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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.

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      Copyright © 2016 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0649-3

      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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      Terran Times Second Wave

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Cleo bit her nail and waited in the lobby of the Volunteer Centre. Several men and women came in and filled out the forms as well as donated a drop of blood for scanning. It was a long wait.

      Several folks gasped, and Cleo looked up, seeing the Ontex recruiter that had come to her home the day before.

      Miss Rhodes, please, come this way.

      Cleo grabbed her purse and shuffled forward, wishing that she could just disappear. All gazes were on her, and it was not a comfortable feeling.

      Recruiter Norz led her through the offices and into a boardroom in the back. When the door was closed and they were alone, Norz got her a glass of water.

      You look nervous, Ms. Rhodes.

      Yes. I know. Look, I know that I said yes yesterday, but I told my parents, and they are not enthusiastic about my leaving. I think I am going to have to say no. Cleo drank greedily from the glass of water.

      Why?

      She sat, and Norz sat across from her, his small silver hands folded on the table.

      Well, my father isn’t a fan of the Volunteer Project. He thinks that it is just a way to steal the best and brightest from the world. Even though the alien tech saved his life after his heart attack, he is convinced that the project will take more than it gives.

      Norz nodded. Understandable. We would not have been able to provide anything to your people if the Volunteers had not left your world and joined the Alliance.

      She smiled. Right. So, it isn’t a big deal if I stay, right? There are plenty of people to replace me.

      Norz laughed. Well, I would love to say yes, but I am afraid that your parents are being informed of the situation as we speak.

      The world seemed a little blurry. What?

      Your presence has been demanded by the species I told you about. You will be going to Lrrko whether you like it or not.

      Cleo frowned. What? I am not going.

      I am afraid you are. Don’t hit your head on the desk.

      What? The world spun again, and she felt her forehead smack something hard.

      Cleo inhaled hard as she fought to breathe. The liquid she was in rushed into her lungs, and while she thrashed, she came to realize that her mind was sharpening and her body was fine. She was hooked to a number of tubes and cables.

      A hand pressed to her tank, and she looked at it in surprise. Shiny and metal, it pressed against her current prison.

      The robot standing outside the column was the last thing she had expected. A screen lit up to her right, and she turned her head. Good day, Miss Cleo Rhodes.

      The words were in English, so she typed the response. Um, good day. Where am I?

      The cameras whirred slightly, and then, the words filled the screen. You are on the Terran transformation base, near the lunar

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