Entwined Fates: Crossing the Line

Publisher:  Ellora’s Cave

ISBN: 9781419908354

Available now in e-book and in paperback.

Erotic Futuristic Romance.

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Alyssa came to Veenori in search of the man who killed her brother. It was the perfect plan — or so she thought. Then she finds herself being sold as a slinoy, a sex slave, and bought by one very gorgeous overseer to the very mine she’d been trying to infiltrate.

Taron didn’t want the undercover assignment, nor did he want a slinoy. But the second he saw those gray eyes, he knew he didn’t have a choice. The woman his brothers had been searching for had slipped through their fingers and fallen right into his lap. He’d promised her brother he’d find her and keep her safe, but resisting the temptation of her passionate nature would be damn difficult — and not losing his heart even more so.

Unfortunately, before they can find a future together, they will first have to survive the present and the man bent on seeing both of them dead.

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Excerpt

“Where the hell did I go wrong?” Alyssa Carington asked herself as she stood just off the stage behind the curtain.

Her body shivered despite the heat. She was dressed in nothing but a black leather collar around her neck, a matching leather strap attached to it so she could be led around like an animal.

This wasn’t her plan. She wasn’t supposed to be a slinoy, Veenori’s version of a sex slave. She should have been sent to the mines. That was where her brother Anthony had been working as a transport pilot when he’d been murdered.

A week before she’d been informed of his death, she’d received a package from him full of photos, a list of names and a short note telling her to keep the packet of evidence somewhere safe. She hadn’t been able to make heads or tails out of the scribbled notes and names, but one name kept appearing over and over. Vingosa.

She’d hidden the packet in a safe deposit box and given the key to a good friend who happened to be a criminal attorney. She handed over the key with strict instructions that if she wasn’t back in six months, open the box and investigate the contents. She then headed to Veenori to begin her search.

Her plan had been to lose money gambling then be sent to the mines to work off her debt. There she hoped to be able to find the man she believed to be responsible for her brother’s death, Vingosa. But somehow everything had gone wrong. When she’d asked why she wasn’t being sent to the mines, they’d laughed at her, saying women were not welcome there.

She’d done her research, knew that to be a lie and confronted the owner of the gaming hall. Vordak had sneered and told her she was too frail to withstand the mines and that he’d stand a better chance of getting his money back by selling her as a slinoy.

So now here she stood, naked as the day she was born, a collar around her neck, waiting to be sent on stage and displayed before the mass of horny aliens that packed the hall. Reaching up, she fingered the gold figure eight charm that hung from the leather. It was where the leash was attached and while Vordak wasn’t looking she tried to feel for a way to undo the strap of leather but, with a sigh of disgust, realized she couldn’t figure it out.

Vordak had told her if she behaved and pleased her master, she should work off what her buyer paid for her in about a year. Oh, God. A year as someone’s sex slave. She liked sex, but this was not her idea of a turn-on.

“Come forward, slave,” Vordak ordered and tugged at her leash.

She cringed and fought the pull of the leather strap, grabbing it with her hands. Vordak turned to glare at her and grasped her fingers in a harsh grip, removing them. Moving behind her, he clasped her wrists and bound them at the small of her back with a set of leather cuffs. The movement caused her breasts to jut forward and she closed her eyes against the desire to fall apart as the locks clicked into place, sealing her fate.

How was she going to go through with this? What if the man who bought her was abusive? Or ended up killing her? She was terrified and tried her best to swallow the bile that tried to choke her. She couldn’t do this.

Vordak shoved and she stumbled out onto the stage. Cheers erupted from the crowd and she swallowed a sob of mortification as Vordak pulled at her leash and tugged her to the edge of the stage. Her body trembled in fear and anger as Vordak pointed out her various attributes to the packed room.

“The next on the list, gentleman, is Alyssa. A spicy little vixen from the planet Earth. You’ll notice the high, firm breasts…” Vordak smoothed his hand over her nipples and she flinched, shooting him a scowl.

“Don’t touch me,” she snarled.

Vordak grinned nastily. “Full of spunk, she is,” he yelled and the crowd murmured its approval.

“Twelve hundred veenok,” someone from the front shouted.

“Fourteen hundred,” someone else shouted, and Alyssa wanted to sink to the floor. Please let it at least be someone I can stand to look at.

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