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Brides of the Kindred
Book 5: Revealed
Evangeline Anderson
KINDLE EDITION
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PUBLISHED BY:
Evangeline Anderson on Kindle
Brides of the Kindred
Book 5: Revealed
Copyright © 2012 by Evangeline Anderson
Kindle Edition License Notes
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Author’s Note #1—
Well, I’m going to talk about piracy again, sorry. There seems to be a
growing idea that it doesn’t hurt anyone to download a free copy of a movie or book. That the
massive publishing house or movie studio you’re taking from can easily absorb the cost.
Unfortunately, the Kindred books are all self published and I am
not
a massive corporation that
can sustain large losses. So if you have downloaded this book illegally, it’s the same as if you
came to my house and took money out of my purse. Please, people—I really can’t afford that.
I honestly believe that most of my readers are wonderful, honest people who wouldn’t do
such a thing. But there are a few out there who do and to you I say—please don’t. If you rely
on piracy to get your books, you’ll drive your favorite authors into other lines of work. And I
really
don’t want to have to rely on MRI as my main source of income again. Shoving
claustrophobic people into a narrow, magnetic hole isn’t
nearly
as much fun as writing. So
please respect my work and buy your own copy. Thanks!
Author’s Note #2—This
is the fifth book in the Brides of the Kindred series. I recommend
that you read Claimed, Hunted, Sought, and Found before starting Revealed.
Hugs and Happy Reading to you all!
Evangeline Anderson
Chapter One
Detective Adam Rast stared down at the limp form of the girl in his arms in horror.
“Nadiah?” he said, patting her cheeks urgently. “Nadiah, come on—wake up.
Please.”
But she just lay there, barely breathing, her lovely deep blue eyes rolled up to show the
whites. She looked like a life-sized doll, her head rolling limply from side to side on his arm.
Rast couldn’t figure out what was going on. Nadiah had come down to the Sarasota HKR
building at his request to see if she could “feel” anything about the AllFather’s last victim, Elise
Darden. In the past, she’d been able to tell the whereabouts of a missing person just by
touching her clothes, and Rast had hoped she would be able to do it again.
But he’d be lying if he said the still-open case was the only reason he’d asked her to come
down from the Kindred Mother Ship to Earth. He’d heard from Commander Sylvan that Nadiah
would be leaving soon, going back to her home planet of Tranq Prime, and he just couldn’t let
her go without seeing her one more time.
It was a stupid impulse and he knew it. They’d started off with a bang during the mistaken
luck kiss at Commander Sylvan’s wedding, but after that things went downhill fast, thanks to his
own stubbornness and stupid pride. To be honest, Nadiah didn’t like him at all—a fact she’d
gone to great pains to make very clear during some of their earlier meetings.
Rast didn’t blame her—he’d been a real jerk. First he’d refused to believe in her gift of “The
Sight”, as she called it, and then he’d called her crazy to her face. By the time Nadiah had
proved to him beyond the shadow of a doubt that she really was experiencing a genuine
psychic phenomenon, it was too late. As his mother liked to say, “You never get a second
chance to make a first impression.”
But even though he had blown it with the beautiful alien girl with exotically tilted dark blue
eyes and long golden hair, Rast couldn’t stop thinking about her. Couldn’t stop wanting to see
her again—just one last time. So he’d called on the viewscreen to ask for her help and to his
surprise and gratification, she had graciously agreed.
“Should have known something was wrong,” Rast muttered, patting her cheeks again. “I
could tell she didn’t feel well.”
It was true—Nadiah had been unnaturally pale as she stepped through the sliding glass
doors of the Human/Kindred Relations building. Her skin, always a delicate, translucent
porcelain, had been paper white. Her eyes, a deep shade of mysterious blue Rast couldn’t
name because they didn’t seem to match any Earthly color he’d ever seen—had been large and
haunted. He’d also noticed dark circles beneath them that hadn’t been there during their last
meeting.
He’d thought about saying something then—considered asking if she was all right. But he’d
assumed she was just having more nightmares. Visions of the AllFather’s victims had plagued
her in the past, no doubt turning her gift into a curse. Rast had hated like hell to put her through
more of the same, but he genuinely needed her help.
Elise Darden hadn’t had any family step forward to question her disappearance—in fact, all

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