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    Multiple Organisms
    Multiple Organisms
    Multiple Organisms
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    Multiple Organisms

    By Viola Grace

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    Drahali has lived her life as a freak, a woman who was far more than one of the guys. Her strength was limitless, but it doomed her to a life alone until the day the Sector Guard recruiter arrived and offered her a chance to be his partner and possibly more.

    Remar suffered the same fate on his home world with his body able to split into multiple incarnations of the original. Meeting a woman who was petite, adorable and could snap him in two would have frightened a lesser man, but he could be more than she could handle any time he wished.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateFeb 7, 2012
    ISBN9781554878352
    Multiple Organisms
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    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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      Multiple Organisms - Viola Grace

      Drahali has lived her life as a freak, a woman who was far more than one of the guys. Her strength was limitless, but it doomed her to a life alone until the day the Sector Guard recruiter arrived and offered her a chance to be his partner and possibly more.

      Remar suffered the same fate on his home world with his body able to split into multiple incarnations of the original. Meeting a woman who was petite, adorable and could snap him in two would have frightened a lesser man, but he could be more than she could handle any time he wished.

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Multiple Organisms

      Copyright © 2011 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-55487-835-2

      Cover art by Martine Jardin

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Multiple Organisms

      Sector Guard Book 18

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Drahali shifted and dug her heels in. I don’t care how much weight you think I can manage, help me pull!

      The mill wheel was moving up the side of the cliff with glacial slowness, but the workers that would normally be hauling the two tons of stone were sitting to one side, placing bets as to her ability to pull the rock up by herself.

      Dra grunted and pulled until the very edge of the rock was tipping and then stopped. Get over here. Now.

      The men snickered. Hestin smirked and sauntered close. Why do you need our help? You seem to have it well in hand.

      Because if you want it in one piece, you will hold it while I sneeze.

      That got their attention and they took places on the ropes and braced the wheel.

      Dra thanked the nine deities and let go as she sneezed. The men groaned as the weight came fully onto their arms. Dra’s head spun as she caught her breath. That was one good sneeze.

      Hestin was digging in his heels and he glared at her. Anytime, Dra.

      She stretched leisurely and then resumed her place on the rope. With a few sharp tugs, the millstone tipped over the edge of the cliff and she hauled it toward the new structure next to the village.

      You know, if I wasn’t a freak, this would be a lot of work for you.

      Hestin chuckled. If Mother and Father didn’t have five children already and wanted a sixth, you wouldn’t be here. There are a lot of ifs in the world.

      She glared at him but was unable to stare down the eyes that were reflections of hers. Green and gold in equal measure surrounded by dark lashes. Women fell at Hestin’s feet with a simple bat of those dark lashes.

      Don’t you flick those eyes at me. This job belongs to the men of the town and not a single woman. Her grumpy tone was one he was well familiar with.

      You know you are the best woman for the job. He kept pace with her as she made it all the way to the mill house.

      Story of my life. She finished hauling the stone into place and then squatted to lift it to its edge for manoeuvring up the ramp and into the mill.

      Men stood by to steer, but it was all Dra pushing that got it across the creaking floorboards to its final resting place. When it slid home, she was sweating but cheerful. A few hours of work that saved others the possibility of injury.

      The men clapped her on the shoulders as she left the mill and they got to the work of putting in the upper grinding stone that would contact the huge wheel she had put in place. Just one of the guys. She was always just one of the guys.

      Her bare feet blew up puffs of dust as she walked the half mile to her family’s home. The sprawling ranch was inviting, but

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