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    Eternity in a Touch
    Eternity in a Touch
    Eternity in a Touch
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    Eternity in a Touch

    By Meyari McFarland

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    Exploration of new worlds delighted Berenike. They'd yet to find one that would make an acceptable colony but she enjoyed the process of discovery. Until they landed on one bleak grey world and discovered something so far beyond her expectations that Berenike feared for her and her team's survival.

    Eternity in a Touch is a SF exploration of time, space and the urge to connect that spans worlds and utterly different species that is sure to entrance you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateApr 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311884602
    Eternity in a Touch
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      Eternity in a Touch - Meyari McFarland

      Eternity in a Touch

      By Meyari McFarland

      Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

      Fitting In

      Artifacts of Awareness

      A Range of Debts Collection

      The Nature of Beasts

      Captured Debts Collection

      Repair and Rebuild

      Infinite Horizons Collection

      Tales from the Dana Clanhouse

      Storm Over Archaelaos

      Infinite Dreams Collection 2

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      Infinite Travels

      Copyright ©2015 by Mary Raichle

      Cover image © SpinningAngel | Dreamstime.com - Steamy Jungle On Faraway Planet Photo

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to me_ya_ri@yahoo.com

      This book is also available in TPB format from all major retailers.

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to my cat Tut, long gone but never forgotten. He adopted me as much as I adopted him.

      Table of Contents

      Eternity in a Touch

      Mountainous Stretch of Wind

      Afterword

      Eternity in a Touch

      Berenike shivered, her fingers dragging across delicately carved surface of the obelisk. At least it looked like an obelisk, tall and slender, carved of some impossibly perfect stone that their instruments had not yet been able to identify. It stood at least three times as high as Berenike was tall, twice as tall as Chloris, off muttering curses by the lander.

      Delicately grey, the same color as everything else on this long-abandoned planet. Berenike traced one particular swirl of alien writing, following its curve down then up then inwards in a spiral the twisted

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