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    Confiscated Bride
    Confiscated Bride
    Confiscated Bride
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    Confiscated Bride

    By Yamila Abraham

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    Ambassador Janel is proud to have finally brokered an alliance with the powerful Haraden. What cinched the deal? The Haraden warriors want brides. Since war ravaged her planet’s male population they actually have a surplus of women looking for husbands. It seems like a win-win.

    General Kordan, the austere Haraden negotiator Janel spent days wearing down, approaches her out of the blue. She’s not married—and the warrior general has his eyes on her. For some reason, she feels compelled to go to him.

    Unfortunately her timing for a visit to a Haraden home world could not have been worse. Was she being courted or confiscated? From the author of Indentured Bride!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYamila Abraham
    Release dateDec 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370761319
    Confiscated Bride
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    Yamila Abraham

    Yamila Abraham founded the publishing company Yaoi Press in 2004. Over the last decade she's overseen the publication 50 Boy's Love titles including graphic novels, comic books, novels, and art books. Abraham has successfully licensed Yaoi Press titles into several foreign languages.Abraham is a prolific writer with over a dozen graphic novel and novels in print with four different publishers. She wrote two of Yaoi Press' best selling series: Winter Demon and Dark Prince. She's written hundreds of novels, both yaoi and science fiction romance, that have been translated into foreign languages. Her first scholarly article on the topic of international BL was published by McFarland Press in 2010. Abraham currently works diligently on numerous illustrated ebooks through Yaoi Press' newest imprint, Yaoi Prose. Abraham has been a speaker or guest of honor at 150 anime fan conventions.

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      It is my great honor, High Council Leader, Ansella Devar-Ne said, to imprint this permanent Alliance with our new friends, the mighty and honorable Haraden Empire.

      She placed her hand on a panel on the ceremonial table before her. A massive screen behind her broadcasted the live image of the Haraden viceroy, a wisened blue alien with pronounced jowls. After a moment his hand print appeared beside him on the split-screen.

      The alliance is sealed, said the viceroy, and then he leaned down to turn off his communicator. The screen went blank on his side.

      The thousands of Malakeezan’s in audience rose in unison with an eruption of cheers. Janel saw many of her people break into joyful tears from her seat on the stage. Their emotion was reflected within her, but she felt too wrought from her hellish negotiations to show much exuberance.

      The very man she’d dueled with sat a few feet away from her on stage, causing her to imagine the sensation of heat emanating from that side. She rose from her seat and clapped while making sure not to gaze toward the alien general.

      What a joke, said Councilor Karrin from the opposite side of her.

      She eyed him. The scrawny senior looked shrunken in his ceremonial robes. Is there a problem, Councilor?

      This whole farce of an alliance is a problem.

      She gave him a stony stare.

      He turned toward her, while clapping too softly to be heard above the audience’s cheers. I beg your pardon, Ambassador; I know you put some measure of effort into brokering this…

      You’ve no idea the effort I put in.

      …but we’re selling our spirits to these warlords. And for what?

      Her eyes narrowed. Protection from the Hax-Rah.

      He pulled his wrinkled lips into a grimace. Feh. The Haraden helps no one but themselves. I tell you, once they get this vaunted grid of theirs up they’ll start pillaging. The few men remaining will be enslaved, and you women, well—

      Shut your damned mouth, Karrin.

      He scoffed.

      The High Council Leader turned to the Haraden delegation seated on the stage a short distance from Janel’s group. Good warriors, there’s to be a celebration in the High Council ballroom. If you’ll follow these attendants. She gestured to three women in starched uniforms. I shall meet you there shortly.

      Four blue-skinned Haraden soldiers, bulging with chest and torso muscles which their black formal attire left exposed, looked to their leader, General Kordan. Her adversary was the eldest of the group, though Janel grudgingly admitted he was still quite handsome. The general sat with his arms crossed and an expression of disdain. For a moment Janel thought he was going to decline the invitation. Instead he flared his nostrils for a snort

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