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    Dero's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)
    Dero's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)
    Dero's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)
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    Dero's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)

    By R.E. Butler

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    Tarihn, an unmated female on the planet Norlan, has spent most of her life knowing that she’ll likely never be chosen as a mate because she’s sterile. She spends her days watching her people take soul mates from other planets and find happiness, but she knows she won’t ever be so lucky.

    Dero lives on the forbidden side of the Issizlik Mountains. He’s never ventured to the other side of the mountain until now, when he and his people mount a mission to destroy the soul-walk machines used to abduct females from other planets, and the vaccinations that have caused the females to become sterile. What he doesn’t expect is to scent his own soul mate in the medical center, or for her to pass out in fear when they come face-to-face.

    Dero has three days to convince Tarihn that they’re soul mates, or he’ll have to return her to her home and erase her memory. The thought of living without her for even a moment is too much for him to bear, and he’ll do everything in his power to ensure that she knows he wants to spend the rest of his life making her happy. Will she give him a chance to prove that they’re meant to be together, or will she want to go back to her own people?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.E. Butler
    Release dateJun 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370673247
    Dero's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)
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    R.E. Butler

    A Midwesterner by birth, R.E. spent much of her childhood rewriting her favorite books to include herself as the main character. Later, she graduated on to writing her own books after "retiring" from her day job as a secretary to become a stay-at-home mom.When not playing with her kids, wrestling her dogs out the door, or cooking dinner for her family, you'll find her typing furiously and growling obscenities to the characters on the screen.Her best-selling series Wiccan-Were-Bear, The Necklace Chronicles, Hyena Heat, Wilde Creek, Were-Zoo, Arctic Shifters, Norlanian Brides, Saber Chronicles, and Ashland Pride are available now.

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      Dero's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five) - R.E. Butler

      Dero’s Bride

      Norlanian Brides Book Five

      By R. E. Butler

      Copyright 2017 R. E. Butler

      Dero’s Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)

      By R. E. Butler

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      This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations is coincidental.

      Disclaimer: The material in this book is for mature audiences only and contains graphic sexual content and is intended for those older than the age of 18 only.

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      Editing by Hot Tree Editing

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      Thanks to Joyce & Shelley for beta reading

      For BB and BL - I love you both.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

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      Dero’s Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Five)

      By R. E. Butler

      Tarihn, an unmated female on the planet Norlan, has spent most of her life knowing that she’ll likely never be chosen as a mate because she’s sterile. She spends her days watching her people take soul mates from other planets and find happiness, but she knows she won’t ever be so lucky.

      Dero lives on the forbidden side of the Issizlik Mountains. He’s never ventured to the other side of the mountain until now, when he and his people mount a mission to destroy the soul-walk machines used to abduct females from other planets and the vaccinations that have caused the females to become sterile. What he doesn’t expect is to scent his own soul mate in the medical center or for her to pass out in fear when they come face-to-face.

      Dero has three days to convince Tarihn that they’re soul mates, or he’ll have to return her to her home and erase her memory. The thought of living without her for even a moment is too much for him to bear, and he’ll do everything in his power to ensure that she knows he wants to spend the rest of his life making her happy. Will she give him a chance to prove that they’re meant to be together, or will she want to go back to her own people?

      Chapter 1

      Dero ran the whetstone over his favorite blade, the scraping rhythm soothing his nerves. In a few hours, he was joining others to travel through the mountains in order to put a stop to the government’s lies that had wreaked havoc on the Norlanian people for generations. Dero’s own people, the Ligaru, were descended from the Norlanians but had defected years earlier to start their own way of life on the other side of the Issizlik Mountains. They’d claimed a vast wilderness as their own and carved out an existence for themselves, relying not on the Norlanians’ notion of machine-aided soul mates but on finding love.

      Not that he’d had any luck in that department. There were over seventy people in the city he called home deep in the forest, but none of the few unmated females were his soul mate. He had no idea when he’d meet her, but he knew that the moment he laid eyes on her, he would just know.

      Are you done with mine? his brother, Carus, asked.

      Dero stopped sharpening his own blade and picked up his brother’s, which was safely tucked into a hide sheath that would be attached to his belt.

      Thanks, Carus said as he took it, pulled it from the sheath, and whistled appreciatively. What are you thinking about so seriously?

      How we’ll find our soul mates.

      Dero picked up the blade and whetstone and began to work again.

      I’ve wondered that myself. Mama says we’ll meet our mates at the right time, but unless there’s a mass exodus of females over the mountain, I don’t know what will happen.

      Dero chuckled. Ashleigh said that, on her world, there are myths of beautiful females with wings called angels. It would be nice if a few beautiful, winged females came our direction. Ashleigh was from a planet called Earth. Her soul mate, Eden, had gone on a soul-walk for her, using a government-run machine that found soul mates from other planets for the Norlanian males. Their own planet’s females had, unfortunately, become sterile. But not on Dero’s side of the mountains, where females were still able to bear young.

      I’d like an angel, Carus said. Wings would be handy.

      My mind will be on the task at hand for our mission tonight. I was just daydreaming.

      Good. I’ll see you soon, he said, leaving Dero alone to finish his task.

      For most of his life, he hadn’t given much thought to the other side of the mountain. His papa, Nelari, had grown up in the hidden city of the ligaru, but his mama, Yelda, had lived in the capital, Kyvern City, on the other side of the mountains. Most males on the other side wouldn’t choose a female on their own, relying instead on the soul-walk machine, which used drugs to send the males into a dream state to show them their soul mates. A male had gone on a soul-walk and seen Yelda as his soul mate, bringing her to a place high on the mountainside called a wooing chamber. Nelari and several other males had patrolled the chambers, breaking into them silently, drugging the males, and offering the females the chance for a new, different life.

      Once the females on the other side had gone sterile, the soul-walk machine stopped looking for soul mates on Norlan and turned to the stars. One of the ligaru’s newest residents, Sloan, was a medical officer from the other side. She was sterile and had been cast aside by a male who had promised to mate her. Warrick, a soldier in the military, had gone against societal norms and taken her as his soul mate. They’d come to live with Dero and his people, along with their family and friends. It would’ve been wonderful if one of the unmated females had been his soul mate but they weren’t. His only hope was that he might one day stumble across his soul mate, and that she’d be willing to live in the hidden city with him.

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      Like most other buildings in Kyvern City, the medical center was dome-shaped, with multiple entrances. One section was for emergencies, which was always staffed, so

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