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  The amount of power that pulsed through him at that moment felt like he’d touched a live wire. He closed his eyes as images flashed behind his eyes. Images of him and Joleen traveling to different worlds, seeing amazing new things, flashed quickly behind his eyes. They visited her mother and all her people in their new world, a plush green world full of amazing animals so like their own earth that Mason speculated it was their earth, only thousands of years ago, before human settlements.

  They returned home and settled in a new home they’d built outside of Hidden Creek, where Joleen grew large with their first child, a boy, followed by two girls. He continued his studies on the friends, but never published any papers, to keep their secrets, all while advancing the medical benefits of what he’d found over the years and the healing properties of Proxinium.

  When Xtina broke contact, Joleen turned to him and smiled.

  “Guess this means I’m stuck with you,” she said.

  He laughed and hugged her. “Guess so,” he said before kissing her.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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  THE CALLING

  DIGITAL ISBN: 978-1-945100-19-2

  PRINT ISBN: 979-8-6526118-59

  Text copyright © 2020 Jill Sanders

  Printed in the United States of America

  All rights reserved.

  Copyeditor: Erica Ellis – inkdeepediting.com

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  Also by Jill Sanders

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  Discovering Pride

  Returning Pride

  Lasting Pride

  Serving Pride

  Red Hot Christmas

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  The West Series

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  Holding Haley

  Missy’s Moment

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  The Grayton Series

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  Someday Beach

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  Swept Away

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  For a complete list of books:

  http://JillSanders.com

  About the Author

  Jill Sanders is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of Sweet Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Western Romance, and Paranormal Romance novels. With over 55 books in eleven series, translations into several different languages, and audiobooks there’s plenty to choose from. Look for Jill’s bestselling stories wherever romance books are sold or visit her at jillsanders.com

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  Jill comes from a large family with six siblings, including an identical twin. She was raised in the Pacific Northwest and later relocated to Colorado for college and a successful IT career before discovering her talent for writing sweet and sexy page-turners. After Colorado, she decided to move south, living in Texas and now making her home along the Emerald Coast of Florida. You will find that the settings of several of her series are inspired by her time spent living in these areas. She has two sons and off-set the testosterone in her house by adopting three furry little ladies that provide her company while she’s locked in her writing cave. She enjoys heading to the beach, hiking, swimming, wine-tasting, and pickleball with her husband, and of course writing. If you have read any of her books, you may also notice that there is a love of food, especially sweets! She has been blamed for a few added pounds by her assistant, editor, and fans… donuts or pie anyone?