For a moment, Mia wondered if it had always been this way. Had the city been so bleak before the Revolution, or had everything been better like her grandmother claimed?
Unbidden, a picture flashed in her mind’s eye—another city but a greener one. Clean air and flowering trees everywhere surrounded high, white buildings with big, shiny glass windows. And he was there—smiling at her. His hair like a golden brown mane around his face, his eyes clear green like a tropical sea. Clear green until they turned golden that was…golden and animalistic and his features began to change. He beckoned to Mia and said her name in a deep, growling voice. He…
No. Mia pushed the strange image away. It was nothing—just a fragment of a dream but somehow it filled her with fear…and made her ache inside. Why did she keep having the strange dreams every night? Was it because of what she’d done at work—because of the act the Commandant had forced her to commit? Was her mind trying to take her away to someplace else, someplace where she could finally be at ease? But if so, why did the man’s eyes change? Why did his voice take on that strange, growling quality?
There is no such place anyway, whispered a little voice in her head. Not after what you did.
Such dreams of a different life—such longings—were sedition and Mia knew it. Thank goodness The EYE had no way to look inside a person’s head or likely everyone in the Republic would wind up in their basement!
Anyway, there was no point in thinking such things, she told herself. This was her home and good or bad, it was where she would live the rest of her life. The clean city and the man with the golden brown mane and green eyes that turned golden were just a dream.
With a sigh, she began the long trudge to the station where she would catch a rickety, rattling tram that would take her to the tall, gray building that housed the Care Center in the middle of the city. There she would work a twelve hour shift and then come home exhausted, fall into her narrow, hard bed, and wake up to do the same thing tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that over and over again.
This was her life and there was no point in dreaming about anything different or better.
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Brides of the Kindred series
(Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)
CLAIMED (Also available in Audio)
HUNTED (Also available in Audio)
SOUGHT (Also Available in Audio)
FOUND (Also Available in Audio )
REVEALED (Also Available in Audio)
PURSUED (Also Available in Audio)
EXILED (Also Available in Audio)
SHADOWED (Also Available in Audio)
CHAINED (Also Available in Audio)
DIVIDED (Also Available in Audio)
DEVOURED (Coming Soon in Audio)
ENHANCED
CURSED
ENSLAVED
TARGETED
FORGOTTEN
SWITCHED
UNCHARTED
UNBOUND
SURRENDERED
VANISHED
IMPRISONED
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME ONE
Contains Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME TWO
Contains Revealed, Pursued and Exiled
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME THREE
Contains Shadowed, Chained and Divided
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FOUR
Contains Devoured, Enhanced and Cursed
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FIVE
Contains Enslaved, Targeted and Forgotten
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME SIX
Contains Switched, Uncharted and Unbound
All Kindred novels are now available in PRINT.
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Kindred Tales
The Kindred Tales are side stories in the Brides of the Kindred series which stand alone outside the main story arc.
These can be read as STAND ALONE novels.
MASTERING THE MISTRESS
BONDING WITH THE BEAST (Also Available in Audio)
SEEING WITH THE HEART
FREEING THE PRISONER
HEALING THE BROKEN (a Kindred Christmas novel)
TAMING THE GIANT
BRIDGING THE DISTANCE
LOVING A STRANGER
FINDING THE JEWEL
BONDED BY ACCIDENT
RELEASING THE DRAGON
SHARING A MATE
INSTRUCTING THE NOVICE
AWAKENED BY THE GIANT
KINDRED TALES VOLUME 1
Contains Mastering the Mistress, Bonding with the Beast and Seeing with the Heart
KINDRED TALES VOLUME 2
Contains Freeing the Prisoner, Healing the Broken and Taming the Giant
KINDRED TALES VOLUME 3
Contains Bridging the Distance, Loving a Stranger and Finding the Jewel
Born to Darkness series
(Paranormal / Action-Adventure Romance)
CRIMSON DEBT (Also available in Audio)
SCARLET HEAT (Also available in Audio)
RUBY SHADOWS (Also available in Audio)
CARDINAL SINS (coming soon)
DESSERT (short novella following Scarlet Heat)
(Also in Audio)
BORN TO DARKNESS BOX SET
Contains Crimson Debt, Scarlet Heat, and Ruby Shadows all in one volume
Alien Mate Index series
(Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)
ABDUCTED (Also available in Audio)
PROTECTED (Also available in Audio)
DESCENDED (Also available in Audio)
SEVERED (Also available in Audio)
ALIEN MATE INDEX VOLUME ONE
Contains Abducted, Protected, Descended and Severed all in one volume
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All Alien Mate novels are now available in PRINT.
The Cougarville series
(Paranormal / Action-Adventure Romance)
(Older Woman / Younger Man
BUCK NAKED (Also available in Audio)
COUGAR BAIT (Also available in Audio)
STONE COLD FOX (Also available in Audio)
BIG BAD WOLF (coming soon)
The CyBRG Files with Mina Carter
(Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)
UNIT 77: BROKEN
UNIT 78: RESCUED
The Institute series
(Daddy-Dom / Age Play Romance)
THE INSTITUTE: DADDY ISSUES
(Also available in Audio)
THE INSTITUTE: MISHKA’S SPANKING
The Swann Sister Chronicles
(Contemporary Fairy / Funny / Fantasy Romance)
WISHFUL THINKING (Also available in Audio)
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (Also available in Audio)
Detectives Valenti and O’Brian
(1980s M/M Romance)
THE ASSIGNMENT
I’LL BE HOT FOR CHRISTMAS
FIREWORKS
THE ASSIGNMENT: HEART AND SOUL
Compendiums and Box Sets
ALIEN MATE INDEX VOLUME ONE
Contains Abducted, Protected, Descended and Severed all in one volume
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME ONE
Contains Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME TWO
Contains Revealed, Pursued and Exiled
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME THREE
Contains Shadowed, Chained and Divided
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FOUR
Contains Devoured, Enhanced and Cursed
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FIVE
Contains Enslaved, Targeted and Forgotten
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME SIX
Contains Switched, Uncharted and Unbound
BORN TO DARKNESS BOX SET
Contains Crimson Debt, Scarlet Heat, and Ruby Shadows all in one volume
HAVE YOURSELF A SEXY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Contains Kidnapped for Christmas, Cougar Christmas and Season’s Spankings
KINDRED TALES VOLUME 1
Contains Mastering the Mistress, Bonding with the Beast and Seeing with the Heart
KINDRED TALES VOLUME 2
Contains Freeing the Prisoner, Healing the Broken and Taming the Giant
KINDRED TALES VOLUME 3
Contains Bridging the Distance, Loving a Stranger and Finding the Jewel
NAUGHTY TALES: THE COLLECTION— Volume One
Contains Putting on a Show, Willing Submission, The Institute: Daddy Issues, The Institute: Mishka's Spanking, Confessions of a Lingerie Model, Sin Eater, Speeding Ticket, Stress Relief and When Mr. Black Comes Home.
ONE HOT HALLOWEEN
Contains Red and the Wolf, Gypsy Moon and Taming the Beast
Stand Alone Titles
(Sci-Fi OR Paranormal Action-Adventure Romance)
ANYONE U WANT
BLIND DATE WITH A VAMPIRE
BLOOD KISS
CEREMONY OF THREE
DEAL WITH THE DEVIL (Also available in Audio)
DEFILED
EYES LIKE A WOLF (Foster Brother romance)
FOREVER BROKEN (M/M romance)
GYPSY MOON
HUNGER MOON RISING
PLANET X (Also available in Audio)
PLEASURE PLANET
PURITY (Now available in Audio)
RED AND THE WOLF
SEX WITH STRANGERS
SHADOW DREAMS
STRESS RELIEF
TAKE TWO
TAMING THE BEAST
THE LAST BITE (M/M romance)
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH
THE PLEASURE PALACE
THE SACRIFICE (Also available in Audio)
Stand Alone Titles
(Contemporay Romance)
A SPANKING FOR VALENTINE (BDSM)
BOUND AND DETERMINED, anthology with Lena Matthews, includes The Punishment of Nicollett
COUGAR CHRISTMAS (Older Woman / Younger Man)
DANGEROUS CRAVINGS (BDSM)
FULL EXPOSURE (with Lena Matthews)
KIDNAPPED FOR CHRISTMAS (BDSM)
PICTURE PERFECT (Step-Brother romance)
STR8TE BOYS (M/M romance)
Naughty Tales
(Short Reads to Get You Hot and Bothered)
CONFESSIONS OF A LINGERIE MODEL
PUTTING ON A SHOW (Step-Brother romance)
SIN EATER
SPEEDING TICKET
THE SWITCH (An erotic interlude with the characters of DANGEROUS CRAVINGS)
WHEN MR. BLACK COMES HOME
NAUGHTY TALES: THE COLLECTION— Volume One
Contains Putting on a Show, Willing Submission, The Institute: Daddy Issues, The Institute: Mishka's Spanking, Confessions of a Lingerie Model, Sin Eater, Speeding Ticket, Stress Relief and When Mr. Black Comes Home.
YA Novels
THE ACADEMY (Now available in Audio)
About the Author
Evangeline Anderson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Brides of the Kindred, Alien Mate Index, Cougarville and Born to Darkness series. She is fourty-something and lives in Florida with a husband, a son, and two cats. She had been writing erotic fiction for her own gratification for a number of years before it occurred to her to try and get paid for it. To her delight, she found that it was actually possible to get money for having a dirty mind and she has been writing paranormal and sci-fi erotica steadily ever since.
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