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    Creaks and Groans
    Creaks and Groans
    Creaks and Groans
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    Creaks and Groans

    By Meyari McFarland

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    Purple and green billowed as he exhaled.

    Pixie dust. Felix's one vice, helped his knees stop aching and his body remember what it was like to be young.

    But this batch brought rage instead of youth, violence instead of relief.

    Not a good thing to inflict on an old dragon hunter, especially one as not-human as Felix.

    Only question was who'd pay for it: his neighbor Youneda or the dealer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateFeb 3, 2017
    ISBN9781370150489
    Creaks and Groans
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      Creaks and Groans - Meyari McFarland

      Creaks and Groans

      By Meyari McFarland

      Other Romance Books by Meyari McFarland:

      Matriarchies of Muirin:

      Coming Together

      Fitting In

      Following the Beacon

      The Solace of Her Clan

      Debts to Recover:

      The Nature of Beasts

      Assumptions of Debt

      The Manor Verse:

      A New Path

      Following the Trail

      Crafting Home

      Finding a Way

      Go Between

      Like Arrows of Fate

      The Drath Verse

      Clash of Lines

      Joining of Lines

      Consort of the Crystal Palace

      Fragments of a Chain

      Stranded With You

      Reunited Hearts

      A Simple Life

      Copyright ©2017 by Mary Raichle

      Cover image

      © Chefdm | Dreamstime.com - Retro / Vintage Style Tea Room, Vintage Home Interior. Photo

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to publisher@mdr-publishing.com.

      This book is also available in TPB format from all major retailers.

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to my father, gone but never forgotten. Everything I am, everything I write, started with you.

      Table of Contents

      Creaks and Groans

      Excerpt: Reunited Hearts

      Afterword

      Creaks and Groans

      Purple and green billowed around Felix as he exhaled. The world shifted, wobbling like he was on a tiny boat, unstable one at that. Bad batch, this pixie weed. He should have paid for the better stuff this time around. But he'd been out and the trader was right there, offering what he needed. Wanted. He'd wanted to remember what it was to have knees that didn't ache, heart that didn't strain every time he stood or walked too fast.

      Not what he'd gotten this time. No, this pixie weed was the sort that gave you sense memories of movements, not the ability to move again. Damn it. His own fault. He should have insisted on testing it before buying it.

      Just meant that he'd have to hold off mowing the lawn. Not that he'd intended to do so today. Rain was coming in, great dark clouds billowing upwards as the temperature dropped outside. Good enough reason to sit on his porch and smoke his pixie weed instead of wrestling the damned mower out and trimming the grass.

      Why had he spent all the time and money on a lawn? Too damned much work, growing grass. Should have just gotten clover seed. Smelled better and that'd have brought in the little fairy-deer in to nibble at it over the night.

      Pretty little things. He'd found them so terrifying when he was a child, right after the

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