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    Running For Home
    Running For Home
    Running For Home
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    Running For Home

    By Zenina Masters

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    Juno is rescue from the clutches of a fey who has tortured and maimed her. Her rescuer is a fey who has been partnered with her brother for the last two years.

    When she looks into his eyes, she doesn’t see pity, and the music he makes carries her to another world.

    Once she is deemed recovered, she is offered a job in the Crossroads, and she takes it.

    There is nothing else to be done; when Derix learns that the fox he wants has moved to the Crossroads, he follows.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781487405359
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      This is another awesome installment in this series. I am definitely going to read more in this series... The author Zenina puts just enough heat to make the story interesting without overdoing it.

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    Running For Home - Zenina Masters

    Recovery is slow, but with doors to her past closing, Juno finds herself running to her forest fey. Running for home.

    Juno is rescued from the clutches of a fey who has tortured and maimed her. Her rescuer is a fey who has been partnered with her brother for the last two years.

    When she looks into his eyes, she doesn’t see pity, and the music he makes carries her to another world.

    Once she is deemed recovered, she is offered a job in the Crossroads, and she takes it.

    There is nothing else to be done; when Derix learns that the fox he wants has moved to the Crossroads, he follows.

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    Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

    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.

    Running for Home

    Copyright © 2016 Zenina Masters

    ISBN: 978-1-4874-0535-9

    Cover art by Carmen Waters

    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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    Running for Home

    Shifting Crossroads

    By

    Zenina Masters

    Chapter One

    Hello, Treasure. Do you have any sweet words for me today? Lord Falkir stroked her cheek.

    Juno Meklin stood completely still; her half-shifted human-fox was silent. She was wearing a purple gown with a deep vee where her neckline should have been. It was split to the waist with a wide, gem-studded belt holding it in place. She was dressed for the party, and he was going to show her off to the perverts who still believed in keeping shifters as pets.

    The crowd was small that night, and it hurt her to see other shifters in similar circumstances. Some were in beast form, others in human form, but Falkir considered her his prize. He had managed to lock her in her half-form, and it was a rare sight.

    She walked behind him at the party. She wasn’t there to serve; she was there to be seen. Three months had passed since she had been captured, and suicide was beginning to feel like the better option.

    As Juno walked through the crowd, she was petted, stroked and groped in equal measure. Her tail was pulled more times than she could count, and it was one particularly insistent suitor that cornered her.

    He stroked the sides of her neck and smiled at her. Hello, Treasure was it?

    She blinked slowly.

    He was lean but had a tough sort of exterior. She could smell the scent of cordite on him, as well as the tang of metal. He didn’t smell like any of the other fey at the party.

    His colouring was remarkably human but with a strange autumn touch. His eyes were dark hazel with a small ring of rich orange, and his hair was a dozen shades of brown.

    His skin was a rich tan with the scent of the forest clinging to him. If he wasn’t a fucking fey, she might even speak to him, but he was, so she wouldn’t.

    Juno felt him nuzzle the side of her neck, just above the collar. She growled, and he pulled back.

    Treasure, come here! Falkir summoned her, and she eased away from her conversational partner.

    Her feet made no noise on the marble floor, but then, not having nails anymore made her remarkably quiet.

    She glided to Lord Falkir’s side, and she had to stand still for another pawing.

    Leebron, be warned, she might be declawed, but she can still bite.

    Apparently, Falkir was attuned to the sound of her growl.

    She kept her hands folded so that the exposed knuckles and scars wouldn’t show, but her teeth were all her own.

    Juno remained at his side throughout the evening, and her lids and ears were beginning to droop when the thunderclap of power ran through the room.

    The doors flew open, and members of the shifter guild came in, confining the fey and soothing the shifters.

    Juno stood in the centre of the space while chaos reigned. The man made of autumn came to her, and he was now wearing a vest with the shifter council logo.

    I am sorry I had to get so close, miss, but I have been working undercover for several months.

    She stepped back and put her hands up to fend him off when he reached for her.

    He looked at her hands, and he snarled softly. Bastard.

    He examined the collar on her throat and was about to remove it

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