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    Braided Silk: Future Tales, #2
    Braided Silk: Future Tales, #2
    Braided Silk: Future Tales, #2
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    Braided Silk: Future Tales, #2

    By Ella Drake

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    Rapunzel was made with technologically advanced hair. As a trained Mother agent, Zel can't escape the DNA that makes her a pawn in corporate espionage. Kidnapped and held in a tower on Gothel Island, she falls to the sexual allure of her captor’s son, Langley, a man whose every tantalizing touch makes her forget she wasn’t born human.

    Langley Gothel protests the existence of creations such as Zel, but when faced with losing her, he sees the truth: Life is precious, whether born, modified, or shaped in a Petri dish. He does the one thing he's thought he'd never do. He has to give up Zel, or become a mod. But will that be enough to get them down from the floating islands and safely to ground?

    This story has been revised and expanded from its first edition and was previously available in the Once Upon a Fairytale boxset

    Future Tales features two standalone stories: Jaq's Harp and Braided Silk.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElla Drake
    Release dateJun 24, 2015
    ISBN9781513006796
    Braided Silk: Future Tales, #2
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    Ella Drake

    As a child Ella read books under the covers with a flashlight. There she found a special love of elves, dragons, and knights. Now that she's found her own knight in shining armor and happily ever after, she loves to write tales of fantasy, hot enough to scorch the sheets. No flashlight needed.

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