Entranced

By Viola Grace

A Terran Times Novel - Can a woman taken from everything she knows find happiness in the arms of a mercurial shifter or will Lora have to hire a trainer for the Lion-shifter, Tiern?

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Apr 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9781554874583

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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Lora Gainer has spent her time in space researching the physical aspects of Alliance races. Her life takes a sudden switch with her abduction and sale to a lion shifter who isn't even sentient by Alliance standards.

Tiern has a plan. He and his cloned brothers have gotten an agreement from the Alliance that if they breed true, the Seth-Ari clones will be granted citizenship to the Alliance of Federated and Sentient Planets. Their children will prove what the Seth-Ari already know, they are living, thinking and reproduction capable creatures.

Now, the all-male race just needs to find women who don't spur their hunting instincts. Since Lora will tolerate Tiern's touch, she is looking to be the first subject in their grand plan. She can hardly contain her excitement.

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Entranced

Copyright © 2010 Viola Grace

ISBN: 978-1-55487-458-3

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Entranced

A Terran Times Novella

By

Viola Grace

Chapter One

Someone was watching her.

Lora Gainer, Bio Tactics Specialist to the Alliance, opened her eyes and glared at the face on the other side of the glass that protected the shoppers at the slave market on Geehee Nine. She was in the middle of her morning meditation and it was irritating to have to spend her time scowling at a prospective buyer.

The light inside her cage told her that the hooded figure wanted her to rise so that they could assess her physical form. If she didn’t comply, the floor would be electrified so she stood. The gauzy folds of her covering fell delicately around her from her shoulders to her feet. When they tried to get her to pose naked, she had simply turned her back on the buyers. Nothing they could do would make her parade naked in front of strange creatures.

Her gaze met that of the creature in the cloak, she got an impression of liquid silver eyes while a surprised flicker touched her mind. She slammed her mind shut on him, it was definitely a him, and waited for the signal to resume her day.

The light flicked off and she sat back down to resume her meditation.

The creature in the cloak nodded to the dealer and they continued down the rows of women in cages.

Lora sighed in relief. No sale meant she had one more day to try to find a way to contact the Alliance for a rescue.

Her first two attempts at escape had been stymied by the dealer who had bought her from the pirates she had run into in the first place. He was wise to the ways of the Alliance and had no interest in bringing them down on his own head or that of his world. Her messages had been wiped from the minds of outgoing slaves and she had been put in a solitary display.

Crap.

Days blended together. She kept up her regimen of exercise and meditation to keep her calm. She had gotten quite the beating from the pirates who had taken her shuttle and had no urge to have the same experience again. Being outnumbered in hand-to-hand combat was not the way to win the day. Persistence