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    Dance of Time
    Dance of Time
    Dance of Time
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    Dance of Time

    By Viola Grace

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    Zez joins the Citadel at age eleven, with a colourful history behind her. Her skills grow with every year, and in a decade, her ability to stop time in a confined area draws the attention of the Sector Guard.

    Immune is paired with the young woman with the dark past, and he sets his mind to keep her under control and save the innocents she might sweep away with her actions.

    Somewhere in the mire of distrust, a partnership is formed. The partnership has the potential to grow into something else, but resentments and accusations will slow the development.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781487405632
    Dance of Time
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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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    Dance of Time - Viola Grace

    Zez’s ability to lock time makes her the ideal partner for a man who holds her past against her.

    Zez joins the Citadel at age eleven, with a colourful history behind her. Her skills grow with every year, and in a decade, her ability to stop time in a confined area draws the attention of the Sector Guard.

    Immune is paired with the young woman with the dark past, and he sets his mind to keep her under control and save the innocents she might sweep away with her actions.

    Somewhere in the mire of distrust, a partnership is formed. The partnership has the potential to grow into something else, but resentments and accusations will slow the development.

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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.

    Dance of Time

    Copyright © 2016 Viola Grace

    ISBN: 978-1-4874-0563-2

    Cover art by Carmen Waters

    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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    Devine Destinies, an imprint of eXtasy Books Inc

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    Dance of Time

    Tales of the Citadel Book 53

    By

    Viola Grace

    Chapter One

    Zez heard the shouts, and she got ready. The swarm of small thieves stampeded past, and she did what she did best, she froze everyone else.

    For thirty metres around her, time stopped. She quickly moved through the frozen and angry population, picking the pockets of all the witnesses. She had to work fast. She only had a minute.

    The moment she had her take, she ran.

    She was around three corners when she heard the distressed shouts from behind her.

    She kept running until the world shifted under her feet.

    She was levitated up over the rooftops and even the central tower. A pale-green woman with emerald hair sat there and applauded, a slow and even effort.

    Well, I see that the scouts were right. You are an impressive talent.

    Zez looked down, swallowed and tried not to activate her power.

    Yes, you have caught on. If you freeze me in time, my talent ceases to flow and you will drop like a stone. I must say, temporal manipulation is a definite boon for a pick pocket.

    Zez couldn’t really say anything. She had a dozen credit packs in her arms. It wasn’t like she had just picked them up.

    Not talking? No protestations of innocence? Good. What if I could offer you a life where you don’t have to steal for a living? Is that an idea that interests you?

    Who would I be sold to?

    The woman gestured to her clothing and the robes that hung from her shoulders. You would not be sold. You would be trained to work for the Citadel.

    I would be free?

    Free. Fed. Clothed, educated, anything you want could be yours, including using your talent for good, for the masses, to save lives and not pick pockets.

    Can you put these credits at that corner?

    Of course.

    Good. Do that and I will go with you. It should be enough to buy Mikki’s freedom.

    The woman arched a brow. Who is Mikki?

    My older sister. I have to pay for her or Toniak will turn her out.

    The woman scowled. Where is she?

    Zez pointed to a building with a collapsing roof. There.

    To Zez’s surprise, the woman pushed herself off the building, and they floated toward the rotted roof. Let’s get your sister.

    Zez held the credits to her chest as they flew over the rooftops and then dropped through the roof.

    Zez spoke immediately. Toniak, I have the money.

    Toniak and his men were pointing weapons at them. Zez. Who the hell is that?

    She has offered me a job. Now, where is Mikki?

    The men looked at each other, and Toniak looked at the credits in her hands. It isn’t enough. She is worth more than that.

    The woman with her said, What do you want for her? I will see that you get it.

    One of Toniak’s men came up from the cellar where they were

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