Parallel Attraction

By Michelle Houston

What if your world changed in an instant ... but it wasn't really your world?

Anna-Marie Dallas is having a bad day. She's in a hostage situation where the odds aren't in her favor. When the gunman detonates the bomb he's been threatening, her fears are realized--she' s going to die.

Instead of waking up in the hereafter, she finds herself in a parallel reality, that split off sometime during the second world war. In the alternate universe, a third world war decimated their population, and they're struggling to rebuild. Adjusting to the shift in reality, Anna-Marie also struggles with her growing attraction to Sean Brent, and finds that her life is not done changing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michelle Houston
• Release date: Aug 27, 2013

Michelle Houston

Born to ride on the back of dragons, to journey among the stars in a ship traveling faster than light, or to dance the night away in the arms of a mysterious vampire, Michelle Houston willingly shares the worlds in her mind in an effort to bring them to life. Writing everything from short and sweet stories, to hot and spicy tales of kink, from contemporary tales of romance to erotic romances featuring Greek Gods, vampires and were-creatures, she has crossed sexualities and has gone wherever her mental muse has guided her. A journey she has never regretted. Beyond that, she has a love of the natural world around us (except for insects, spiders, snakes, jellyfish, scorpions, and she reserves the right to add more at any time). She's married to a wonderful man who supports all her writing endeavors (even when her characters scare him just a wee bit), and is the reason she is even published at all. Her daughter is too young to know just what mommy writes, but she knows she wants to write too when she grows up, and already has a good start on it. In other words, she is an ordinary woman, with an imagination that is only held in bounds by how fast she can type.

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PARALLEL ATTRACTION

An erotic romance novella by

Michelle Houston

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Parallel Attraction © copyright 2007, 2008, 2013 by Michelle Houston

Cover art © 2013 Michelle Lee

Edited by Jenna Byrnes and D Musgrave

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PARALLEL ATTRACTION

Prologue

Curling her knees against her chest, Anna-Marie tried not to flinch as the gunman jerked around, the automatic weapon he held with one hand pointed in her direction. All around her, people sat huddled together, many softly crying as they battled hysteria. Feeling a strange sense of calm, she knew that she might not walk out of the building alive. Judging by the handheld device the lead gunman was holding in his other hand, and the way he kept threatening to blow them up, it was almost certain someone was going to die.

She could hear police outside the building, pleading with the gunmen to answer the phone. It had been ringing almost nonstop for the better part of the last half hour, but the gunmen either didn't care or weren't willing to talk. Her mind analyzed the problem, as she would any mathematical equation, she ran the numbers and kept coming up with the same odds: someone was going to die. Either by giving in to panic, or when the police rushed in. Worst case scenario, the gunmen would get edgy and blow them all to hell.

A flicker of movement out of the corner of her eye caught her attention, and she turned her head slightly to the left. She could see the briefest glint in a mirror. Not wanting to draw anyone's attention to what she figured was the cavalry arriving, she forced herself to look away. It was evident that the police had run the numbers, too, and had come up with the same odds. Without the gunmen's willingness to talk, to attempt to negotiate, they had to do something. She hoped whoever was in charge wasn't a gung-ho hero type, looking to ride the waves of glory for saving them all.

Looking around at all the people in the room, she wondered what they were thinking. The mother in the corner holding her child tight to her chest. The father of two trying to shelter his family while holding his wife's hand so tight that it would be a miracle if her fingers weren't broken. People facing their demise. She couldn't help but wonder what thoughts tormented or comforted them.

Facing her own