His daughter blinked up at him, her cherubic face fraught with worry as he curled one of her fine, dark ringlets around his finger.

“Nejerets have large appetites, and we’re prone to excess,” he said. “The loss of humanity would be a shock to our way of life, but I fear the Earth could not sustain such a large swell in immortals.” He emitted a whisper of a sigh. “And that’s assuming we could even find a way to live together in peace.” He released the strand of his little girl’s hair, brushed his knuckle over his wife’s cheekbone, and returned to the chair behind the desk. “Considering how well we’re doing right now, my hopes aren’t high.”

Though logical and heartfelt, his reasoning didn’t sway me. Human lives weren’t worth less than Nejeret lives; that was the kind of thinking that had fostered the psychopathic genocidal actions of the Senate.

“Fine,” I said, slumping my shoulders purposely to display defeat and moving one hand behind my back. I crossed my fingers. “We’ll do it your way.”

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About the Author

Lindsey Sparks is a bestselling Science Fiction and Fantasy author who lives her life with one foot in a book—so long as that book transports her to a magical world or bends the rules of science. Her novels, from Post-apocalyptic to Time Travel Romance, always offer up a hearty dose of unreality, along with plenty of history, mystery, adventure, and romance.

When she's not working on her next novel, Lindsey spends her time hanging out with her two little boys, working in her garden, or playing board games with her husband. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and their small pack of cats and dogs.

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