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BOOK: Warlord

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Sara tried to laugh through her tears, but then she grew serious. “Arystan, since you’re here . . . this means . . . well, this means that you . . . you –” she faltered.

“That I love you?”

She nodded.

Arystan sighed. “Yes, I think that is safe to say. But do you know what else it means?”

Sara looked into his black eyes, falling in, losing herself in those dark depths, at peace now with the entire world. Her eyes widened as she saw them flare with heat as he looked down at her, his eyes predatory.

“What?” she breathed.

He bent down and whispered in her ear. “It means – I watched the Desiderium Lacus with you in the cave . . . and I know what your greatest desire is.”

THE END

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tasha began writing when she was a child, completing her first screenplay when she was just seven years old. She continued to write profusely throughout her childhood and into her adult years.

Spending time in Alaska, Tasha received her bachelor’s degree and went on to obtain a law degree, graduating at the top of her class. While in law school, Tasha continued to develop her writing skills as an editor of the law review and by assisting her professors who sought her writing expertise for their published textbooks.

After a successful legal career, Tasha moved to Maui and turned her complete attention to her true love of writing fiction. Tasha now writes solely from her home on Maui and routinely draws inspiration from the beautiful Hawaiian scenery. She lives on Maui’s North Shore with her husband and son.

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ALSO BY TASHA TEMPLE

INTERPLANETARY SLAVE: Arcada of Ecryon

Synopsis

In the star system Ecryon, women are kept as slaves as a way of life. Terenth, heir to the Ecryon throne, punishes his own slave, Arcada, by sending her to distant planets to fight for her life whenever she displeases him. Arcada is forced to travel to Earth where she finds herself bound to serve the whims of a demanding prince who insists she take on a dangerous mission.

But when it is decreed that Terenth must marry another before Arcada returns, Terenth, realizing his profound love for his slave, travels to Earth to try to convince her to marry him first. To stay together, Arcada must survive her task and Terenth must do more than exert his ownership over her, he must give her his heart.

INTERPLANETARY SLAVE: Arcada of Balinth

Synopsis

Terenth, heir to the Ecryon realm, attends an auction with his childhood friend, Jaxx, to acquire his very first slave without his father’s help. This is a short (1900 word) introduction of how Terenth and Arcada first met and the circumstances of the very beginning of her ownership.

AWAKENINGS

Synopsis

Lysander, an imprisoned vampire king, begins appearing in Abby Fenton’s dreams from his distant exile, disrupting her happy marriage with forgotten images of their dark and brutal passion. As Abby and her stockbroker husband, Nick, struggle to come to terms with Lysander’s disturbing influence over Abby, Nick is forced to reveal chilling secrets of his own that he has kept hidden from his wife for years. Abby must not only cope with these new revelations but resist the temptations of her former vampire lover.

Nick and Abby travel to Egypt to find the vampire and try to free Abby from his torment.

There, Abby is confronted with her own sinister, long-forgotten past which beckons to her as she comes closer to Lysander’s power. As Nick and Abby face the dark king’s evil, they hope that not only their marriage survives, but they do as well.

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