Entwined

By Viola Grace

A Terran Times Novel - Theadora has waited her entire life to repair her soul, but she knows that it is an impossibility until she meets Hathir and he completes her in a way she never imagined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Apr 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9781554874750

Viola Grace

Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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Thea has risen to the top of her field in data accumulation. She knows that her soul is incomplete and has come to grips with all that it means to her.

Hathir is a gladiator at the top of his game who has the same problem. When they meet, sparks fly and souls are made whole. Hathir wants more than half his soul back, he wants to convince Thea that they are meant to be together, even if it means that he has to participate in a wedding where she is the maid of honour. Doing ritual battle with his soul mate at the wedding is a foreign idea to Hathir, but with her instincts marked by carrying half his soul for most of her life, the battle is on. Let the best woman win.

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Entwined

Copyright © 2010 Viola Grace

ISBN: 978-1-55487-475-0

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Entwined

A novella of the Terran Times

By

Viola Grace

Prologue

Twenty-five years before the Volunteers left Terra

The Arkhage survey ship slowly scanned the planet known as Terra. They had clearance to move past the system perimeter for the purpose of gathering information on the species that was being considered for entrance into the Alliance.

Mama, I don't feel well.

Captain Daylen Callar turned to view her son, Hathir. He was flushed, peaked and had a glazed look to his eyes. What's wrong?

As she cupped his face, she heard his whisper. I think half my soul is gone.

What? That isn't possible, sweet. Your soul belongs to you and your mate alone. You haven't even been introduced to likely girls.

I know, but it is what I feel.

Her little boy was just thirteen, far too young to have made a match, especially with no females of his age in the area. Her doubts were silenced when he fainted in her arms.

Woof, lad. You are growing far too fast. She carried him to medical and hooked up the scanner. He was not ill--no virus or bacteria and no other sign of infection. If he was truly experiencing his twining with another's soul, it must be a young female from the planet they were scanning. Daylen sighed and shook her head, despair flooding her. If one of the girls below had half her son's soul, then he had half of hers and neither would be whole until they were joined.

The likelihood of that one girl making it into Alliance space and finding her son would be astronomical, but if they could share one-half of the joy that Daylen had shared with her mate, Horal, it would be worth every second for them both.

She hoped that her son was suffering from a debilitating virus that the computer couldn't identify, because if he never found his mate, he would be a hollow shell of the boy she had raised.

The very thought broke her heart.

* * * *

Thea looked up at the night sky and put her dolly aside. Something had just happened, but she didn't know what it was. It was like half of what made her Thea was gone and something else was now in its place. The something else wasn't happy either.

Thea picked up her teddy bear and whispered her confusion to him. Teddies were good at keeping secrets.

Chapter One

Sill, I don't know if I want to go. Theadora Comet was looking at her roommate dubiously. I still have to send this research parcel to the Rep and then start on the next project. Taking time out to watch a fight is not really on my schedule.

Sillohoran Negathic reached out and hit the send key on Teddy's keyboard. Afterward, my engagement party begins and as my maid of honour, you are required to be there.

You know, I am beginning to regret giving you that Terran wedding planning book. The documents had been