The Breeding Lands (An Epic Erotic Fantasy Novel)

By Eva Fellheart

Every year a thousand young females are offered to the tribes of Lacertine as sacrifices for The Mating Ritual. These human girls become the life-long mates of the Usari, Sabre, or Lycan warriors who win their honor during battle on the sacred blue sands of The Breeding Lands.

It's on these blue sands that the new mates consummate their union...merely minutes after selection. The humans have made a deal with the shifter tribes - in exchange for protection and peace, they must provide women to bear offspring to the Usari Ravagers of the western mountains, the Lycan Moonlords of the northern forests, and the Sabre Prides of the southern lowlands...

Everything is about to change as three young women, Mia, Leila, and Violet are selected for mating. Each woman will play a vital role in the balance of power between the three tribes, the humans, and the ominous exiled Dragon Lords. As they struggle to adapt to their new lives, as the mates and concubines of fierce and savage shifter warriors, the girls realize that their destinies are intertwined...

A shifter tribe is planning a treacherous uprising. A war is coming - but will one of the girls give birth to a child that may one day change the fate of the world?

The Breeding Lands is an epic paranormal fantasy novel full of hot, thrillingly erotic sexual content. This book contains explicit sex between willing human females and sexy Shapeshifter Alpha Warriors. Not suitable for readers under 18 years of age.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Infinite Muse Press
• Release date: May 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301888795

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THE BREEDING LANDS:

An Epic Erotic Fantasy Novel

By

Eva Fellheart

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The Breeding Lands: An Epic Erotic Fantasy Novel

Copyright © 2013 by Eva Fellheart

This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

Adult Reading Material

The material in this document contains explicit sexual content that is intended for mature audiences only and is inappropriate for readers under 18 years of age.

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THE BREEDING LANDS:

An Epic Erotic Fantasy Novel

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

​Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

About the Author

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PROLOGUE

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Billions of years ago, the planet Lacertine was formed in a far-flung solar system. From the moment of its inception, Lacertine was a creation of mysterious beauty. Shortly after its birth, the new world recruited the company of a stunning moon. The satellite hung low and bright in the sky, orbiting in close proximity and shrouding part of the planet in perpetual darkness.

The Dragon Lords, who were as much a part of Lacertine as the very elements that formed the planet, emerged as the world’s dominant life form. As the only sentient species, they ruled the continent of Nihilo Terra uncontested for millions of years. It's said that they were conceived in the bowels of the planet and birthed onto its surface through violent volcanic eruptions.

The Dragon Lords inhabited almost every inch of Lacertine's beautiful terrain, but the barren blue sands of the Breeding Lands desert was beyond their reach. Although they took full advantage of the planet's diverse landscapes, the Lords favored the Eastern Highlands most of all. Dragon Lord clans spread out among the five regions, living quietly and peacefully.

For millions of years the Dragon Lords lived and evolved, slowly perfecting magic and sorcery, breeding their people to be bigger, stronger, and more intelligent.

Over the course of millions of years of evolution, the Dragon Lords began to change. Although it is not well documented and the process remains shrouded in mystery still to this day, it is known that the Lords began to breed another sentient species. The species was a hybrid; half Lord, half dragon, possessed of superior intellect and immense magical power. The Lords called this new race the Draconian.

These powerful and treacherous creatures were shape-shifters who possessed the ability to transform from Dragon Lord to Dragon. They often chose to live most of their lives in Dragon form. But once every lunar cycle, they were able to shift between forms and walk among the Dragon Lords. At first, the people were frightened of this unknown race. But they soon came to respect the power and intelligence of the Draconian. Eventually, the Lords permitted the hybrid creatures to hold esteemed positions, especially those of advanced magical power.

Over time, new creatures sprouted from the world. At first, they all coexisted with the Dragon Lords, neither species taking more than they gave back. There were three new species that proliferated on Nihilo Terra at an especially magnificent pace.

First were the slender, cunning wolves that ran among the darkened trees of the Northern Forest; an area that was bathed in constant moonlight. Large, lumbering bears began to inhabit the Western Mountains, living in caves and feeding on fish and other prey in the blue and green rivers, which flowed through the magnificent multi-colored mountains and foothills. Sleek, majestic saber-toothed cats began to dwell in the Southern Lowlands; a grassy savannah where the sun always shone, lighting the hot, dry lands with hour upon hour of unrelenting light.

These three groups kept mostly to themselves and went about their lives barely noticed by the Dragon Lords. The Lords were too preoccupied with their own grand plans, breeding more Draconian and developing their magic and sorcery. They took pride in their abilities, and saw themselves as the master race. Their egos grew bigger and bigger as they continued to advance their new species.

The uprising began so subtly that, at first, the Dragon Lords did not notice. The other three prominent species that now lived on Nihilo Terra began to multiply exponentially within their own regions. Absorbed in themselves, the Dragon Lords did not realize that the animals living in the forests, mountains, and grass lands had evolved to breed hybrids much like their own Draconian.

The wolves, bears, and cats were breeding true shape-shifters. In comparison, the Dragon Lords had only a handful of Draconian hybrids among them. The creatures were unpredictable, and once in Dragon form they often flew off by themselves never to be seen again. Their greatest inherent weakness, however, was that the beasts could only shift at very specific times.

And so were born the three tribes who would forever change the fate of the world that the Dragon Lords had built. The Lycan Moonlords were hybrid men and women who could shift into wolves. They chose to live deep in the thick trees of the Northern Forest. The Usari Ravagers were savage hybrid men and women who were able to shift into bears. They chose to live in communities built into the elusive caverns of the Western Mountains. The Sabre Pride were hybrid men and women who possessed the ability to shift into sabre-toothed cats. They built their homes in the Southern Lowlands.

Eventually, these three tribes would unite, and together they would plot to overthrow the Dragon Lords and banish the ancient people to an uninhabitable land. The attack was swift and successful, and met with little resistance. The Dragon Lords were forced from Nihilo Terra and exiled to the wasted island of Natantis Terra.

The Dragon Lords managed one victory before their exile. By using what little sorcery they had developed, they successfully lured every female hybrid from the three tribes, and brought them to Natantis Terra. There on the black island of volcanic rock, lava and fire, the Dragon Lords held all the female shifters as their sexual prisoners, and priding themselves on what was sure to be the demise of the three tribes.

The tribes were enraged, maddened, and frightened by the inevitable downfall of their species. Without females, they would die out slowly until they were nothing but a few haggard, feeble nomads. The Dragon Lords watched with pleasure, perched on the edges of their prison wasteland, as the men of the tribes slowly began to wither and die.

Refusing to assent to inescapable doom, and heeding the possibility of a counter-attack, the tribes had worked swiftly to build strongholds in each of the regions. They erected powerful, massive gates which served to protect the tribes against the Dragon Lords and their Draconian spawn. With the help of captured Dragon Lord sorcerers, the tribes utilized every scrap of magic they had acquired over the years, and forced them to create powerful crystals to protect the gates. This ensured that the Dragon Lords would never pass over the waters and back into Nihilo Terra as long as they stood.

The years passed, and just as the youngest males of the tribes were beginning to enter manhood, their prayers were suddenly answered. One day, an armada of enormous foreign machines came tearing into the atmosphere, creating beautiful flares of light and fire that cascaded across the sky. The massive contraptions landed in the water near the Eastern Highlands with deafening thuds.

From these machines emerged wave after wave of human beings. They looked exactly like the people of the tribes. There were men, children, and women. Women of various ages, colors, beauty, but all fertile. After careful observation, the tribes learned that these new beings, while intelligent, were unable to shift into any other forms. In fact, the humans were quite fragile and weak compared to the creatures of Lacertine.

The tribes converged to determine what should be done about these new creatures. The Usari Ravagers proposed that the tribes seize the women immediately, capture them for their own breeding, and make the human males and children slaves in the tribal regions. Luckily for the humans, the Lycans and Sabres agreed that it would be beneficial for all parties if the humans were permitted to live on their own in the Eastern Highlands, under the protection of the three tribes. In exchange for their protection, the humans would have to sacrifice females to the tribes, to partake in The Mating Ritual, to serve as lifelong mates and to bear shifter offspring to the tribes.

The Mating Ritual would take place every year on the blue sands of The Breeding Lands. The human legion would bring one thousand females to be sacrificed as shifter mates. All able warriors of the three tribes would meet, and choose their mate from the line of one thousand females. If any warriors were to chose the same woman, then they must fight to the death for her. Once mated on the blue sands, the couple could only be separated from one another by death.

The tribal chieftains befriended these new creatures and brought them their proposal. They learned that the humans were the last of their kind, refugees from a planet called Earth. There had once been billions of them on their planet, but now their numbers were down to only a few hundred thousand. The humans were grateful to the tribes for their peaceful welcome and agreed to their proposition. They would sacrifice one thousand females every year, in exchange for protection and an otherwise peaceful life on Lacertine. And so they began to rebuild their lives on the lush, grassy hills of the Eastern Highlands.

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CHAPTER ONE

​ Mia

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Mia hurried down the dock, her wild hair flowing behind her as she waved at the boat that was pulling away.

Papa! Wait! She cried frantically. Her father looked up at her with confusion. She skidded to the end of the dock, panting heavily and clutching a package. He eyed the small linen sack appreciatively.

You forgot your lunch.

Her father grinned, his eyes crinkling at the corners. Sweet Mia! You are too good to me, he said as he leaned over to retrieve his food for the day. He blew Mia a kiss, and then eased the boat out into the blue waters.

Mia turned around and walked leisurely back along the pier. She paused momentarily to catch her breath. She loved the salty smell of the sea, and the way that the sun warmed her bare skin. A few silver sea birds called out to her, beckoning her to spend the day on docks, lounging around and dipping her feet into the waters. She sighed, knowing that she had to get home to start on her chores.

Good morning, Mia! a voice called.

Mia turned around and shielded her eyes to see in the bright sunlight. Mr. Danvers, her Ancient Human History teacher, waved to her from a nearby boat.

Hello Mr. Danvers!

How is that project coming along, the one you and your sister are supposed to be working on? There was a slight twinkle in his eyes and Mia knew it was because he already knew the answer.

We finished last night, she admitted sheepishly.

Of course you girls did! he said happily. If only all my students could be as bright and dedicated as you, he sighed. You ladies never disappoint.

Mia smiled kindly. Enjoy the rest of your day! She called.

She hurried the rest of the way up the dock, and hoped fleetingly that her father would catch some Nihilo crabs that day. They hadn’t had any in months. Nihilo crabs were big, fleshy crustaceans as large in size as a person's head, with three monster claws each. One was a meal in itself. Their meat was sweet and buttery, and Mia’s mother knew how to cook them with just right.

As she walked along the craggy shore, Mia’s thoughts drifted to the impending Mating Ritual. She shuddered to think that it was only eight short weeks away. The year was nearly at its end, and the first lunar cycle of the new year was looming over them like a storm cloud. She wished more than anything that she had been born a boy, so that she wouldn’t have to go through the agony of these next few weeks.

It seemed like only yesterday when her Aunt Jossalyn had come over to their house wearing a glittering blue bracelet on her wrist. Mia knew that some women considered it to be a great honor to be selected for mating, but she saw it as a demonstration of barbaric power. Mia remembered how her aunt had cried, and begged not to have to leave her family. She remembered how her mother had attempted to console her aunt while fighting back her own tears. Jossalyn had been the first person to be selected that Mia had ever really known.

Mia’s parents hadn’t let Mia or her sisters go to the Mating Ritual, though they’d gone in support of Jossalyn. Mia’s mother never seemed quite the same afterwards. Every year, Mia’s mother would get a haunted look in her eyes, mourning the loss of her sister.

From what Mia’s mother had told her, Aunt Jossalyn had been taken by the Sabre Pride, to live in the perpetual heat of the sun in the Southern Lowlands. Once a woman was taken by her mate, they disappeared to their tribal region and never spoke to their human relations again. Mia’s mother had no way of knowing if her sister was alive or dead.

Reviews for The Breeding Lands (An Epic Erotic Fantasy Novel)

[naturejaylin · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The ending of the book was horrible and ended way to fast.

[dougennyh · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The story line was very good but the way it just stopped, leaving
the reader hanging, was extremely dissatisfying.

[Erato1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Page 84 of 189 urgh! The tiger fighting is now a lion? What am I missing here?