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Violet Spirit (#2)
A half human, half alien.
A violet-eyed shapeshifter.
Their destinies bound by magic from a disappearing world.
Ever since free-spirited Lexie Mills learned she was half human, half alien, her life has been far from ordinary. But living a privileged life in a Cotswold manor with her over-protective family isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and not helped by her confusing feelings for her best friend, Drew.
Evoxian shapeshifter, Drew Morgan, longs to tell Lexie he’s her destined soulmate, but until she embraces her alien heritage, he must wait. Trouble is, staying in the friend zone proves harder than he thought.
Tensions sizzle and chemistry sparks between them, but as their friendship blossoms into something magical, Lexie uncovers a heart-breaking truth about Drew and she must make a choice…
Forgive Drew and accept her destiny, or decide her own fate?
EXCERPT
Good little Lexie Mills
always did as she was told, right?
Wrong. Not anymore.
Her stomach churned, but
there was no going back now. She had to do this for her own sanity.
Three sets of violet eyes
stared expectantly at her.
Lexie’s gaze flitted
around the opulent sitting room of Hawton Hall, the eighteenth-century Cotswold
manor she felt privileged to call home, but it was also a gilded cage.
She blurted it out before
she lost her nerve. “I want to get a job.” Now for the repercussions.
The room fell silent, as
she’d predicted.
Scents of beeswax and
decades-old fabrics mingled with the aromatic, seasoned oakwood that burned
inside the huge Georgian fireplace. The antique clock ticked monotonously on
the mantlepiece, like the calm before the storm.
“Over my dead body,” Drew
declared, his sudden hostility taking her by surprise.
Her heart sank. She’d
expected more from him, at least hoped he would be on her side.
From the moment she’d met
Drew—when her mum learned of her alien heritage—he’d impressed her with his
shape-shifting abilities. He’d become like a big brother and a best friend
wrapped into one, her confidant, the person who made her laugh when everything
had changed so rapidly, and he was usually so amicable. But not today, it
seemed.
Drew folded his giant
arms, drawing her attention to the striking tattoo of the naghari that
snaked around his forearm, a fearsome creature he could morph into in three
seconds if he wanted to. His jaw tightened, and his expression took on an
arrogant stubbornness, evoking a sudden urge within to slap him across his
handsome face.
What right does he have
to tell me what I can and can’t do?
She looked to her
parents, pleading they would understand her need for independence.
“You don’t need a job,
love,” her mum, Bree, told her. “It’s not as if we need the money anymore.”
Yeah right, because her
Evoxian royal heritage, and the numerous properties and land on Earth her
family owned, meant she could buy anything and everything she could ever want.
Everything except her
freedom.
While searching for clues to her past, single mother Bree Mills discovers a subculture of aliens with supernatural abilities living on Earth. And she’s one of them. Finding herself hurled into a world of possibilities, it’s made more alluring by Quinn Taylor, the 324-year-old, violet-eyed Evoxian from her childhood dreams.
Quinn knows his destiny is entwined with Bree’s. He’s fraught with frustration and desire, but before he can confess his love, he must wait for her to sense the Akui, a mysterious force tied with ancient Evoxian law.
At a Cotswolds country manor, passions awaken and ignite a love more magical than the once-Utopian planet, Evox. Then Fate delivers a cruel and heart-breaking blow when Bree is kidnapped by a malicious alien who wants her and her power. Will Quinn still love Bree when she’s faced with protecting her half-human daughter… whatever the cost?
EXCERPT
“I know it must seem
impossible to believe, but please give me a chance to explain.” Quinn’s
amethyst gaze never left hers. “Haven’t you always felt different to everyone
else? Did you ever wonder why your eyes are an unusual colour?”
Bree
blinked like a stupid airhead.
“I
know you sensed the connection to your talisman; surely you can’t deny that?”
Something
tugged inside. Despite her fear, her confusion, and the craziness of what he’d
told her, she controlled the impulse to run.
She
could answer yes to every question, hell yes, but it didn’t mean she came from
another planet…did it?
Her
head spun. Erratic thoughts swirled like dust motes caught in a breeze. She was
a single mum, slightly odd maybe, but living an ordinary, uneventful life, or
at least trying to. How could this be happening? Beads of sweat dampened her
brow, her neck. Could it be true?
“Let
me show you something, then you can decide. Would you give me your talisman,
please?”
With
no idea why, Bree took off the pendant and handed it to him, flicking her
tongue across lips that were drier than the Sahara.
He
tilted his head in the direction of the small table. “Sit down and I’ll prove
it to you.”
With
her legs buckling at the knees, she had no choice but to do as he asked.
Quinn
closed the curtains, blocking the bright shaft of sunlight, then sat in the
seat opposite. His intoxicating scent, sandalwood, soap and the faintest whiff
of zesty orange shampoo filled her senses, made her insides fizz with
anticipation. “Hold both hands out, please, palms upwards on the table.”
Bree
wiped her clammy palms on her jeans. Yep,
I’m the crazy one here.
“Okay,
try to relax.”
Un-bloody-believable.
How the hell was she supposed to relax when he’d just told her she wasn’t from
Earth?
Not
to mention the touch of his hot, dry hand was playing havoc with her pulse
rate.
About the author:
Abbey MacMunn writes paranormal and fantasy romance. She lives in Hampshire, UK, with her husband and their four children.
When she’s not writing, she likes to watch films and TV shows – anything from rom-coms to superheroes to science fiction movies.
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