Twist In Time

By Zenina Masters

Teal was content in her place as the swan prime. She helped her people recover from wounds and officiated shifter weddings. Life was serene until her mother lets her know that her husband has been chosen, and the wedding is going to be that very day.

Not likely.

Tony has been watching the white-haired swan for years. Every meeting with the heads of the clans and the primes has had her sitting directly across from him, usually in a charming dress. When he runs across her at his family gas station, she is not her normally ladylike self, and he finds that the scrappy swan is even more intriguing than the elegant one.

When a dragon appears and makes them an offer, their futures cease to be theirs to control as they pledge themselves to the Crossroads... and each other.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Sep 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781487430436

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Teal wants a new start away from family; Tony wants Teal and is willing to leave his people to have her. Enter the Crossroads.

Teal was content in her place as the swan prime. She helped her people recover from wounds and officiated shifter weddings. Life was serene until her mother lets her know that her husband has been chosen, and the wedding is going to be that very day.

Not likely.

Tony has been watching the white-haired swan for years. Every meeting with the heads of the clans and the primes has had her sitting directly across from him, usually in a charming dress. When he runs across her at his family gas station, she is not her normally ladylike self, and he finds that the scrappy swan is even more intriguing than the elegant one.

When a dragon appears and makes them an offer, their futures cease to be theirs to control as they pledge themselves to the Crossroads... and each other.

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Twist in Time

Copyright © 2020 Zenina Masters

ISBN: 978-1-4874-3043-6

Cover art by Angela Waters

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Twist in Time

Enchanted Crossroads Book 5

By

Zenina Masters

Dedication

To everyone who has been after me for Teal and Tony’s story. Here you go... now hush!

Chapter One

Teal finished her swim, shifted, and pulled her sundress on as she padded down the dock.

Her mother stopped her before she reached the house. Teal, I want to speak to you.

Walk and talk, Mother. I have a meeting to get to.

Annabella Winx frowned. I need your full attention.

I have an avian council meeting to get to, and the transporter is on the way. Can’t it wait until this evening?

Her mother frowned. You really need to know this before the party.

A honk from out front got Teal’s attention. Right. I am sure. I have to go. Talk to me later. She put on her shoes and ran around the front to meet the transporter. Mages were notoriously bad-tempered. Teal figured that they didn’t get laid enough, but that was her own opinion and not that of the swan prime.

As the swan prime, she could feel all of her people, all the time. It was a position of honour and totally random. Her family was using her inheritance of the position to elevate themselves in society. The little girl she used to be before she was elevated just wanted to run through the woods and swim in the pond.

Leonard was standing next to his car, his arms crossed. Are you ready?

She nodded. Yes.

He flicked his cigarette to one side, and he focused on the portal. She waited until the light flared, and she stepped through it. It was time to be the most official swan in the world for this generation.

The avians were gathering, and Teal nodded at a few of the others that she recognized on sight. She saw the goose, the ducks, and the array of songbirds. There were a handful of primes in the gathering of hundreds. They took their seats in the congress, and Teal took her seat up front.

The gavel banged, and they all looked toward the stork who was in charge this year. The eagle was sitting behind her and to the left.

The gavel banged again. Thank you all for coming. We have an interesting speaker here today. She is asking for our agreement, so please, give her your attention.

The doors opened, and a woman with long, straight blue-black hair and emerald green eyes came in, her body shockingly petite for the amount of power she projected.

She walked calmly to the front of the room, and everyone was silent.

She smiled. "Good afternoon, avians. I am Dira, and I am proposing an interesting situation to solve a lot of problems. Every shifter species occasionally