title: Amazing, Beguiling, Curious: 26 Fascinating Creatures
author:  Anne E.G. Nydam 
description: Anne E.G. Nydam has been interested in both art and science as long as she can remember. She is now an artist, writer, stay-at-home mother, and negligent housekeeper. She lives with her husband, two children, a cat, and a yard full of bird feeders, chipmunks, and dragonflies. To see more of her work, please visit her web site at www.nydamprints.com.
zlib_text: ALIEN OUT�AST’S EXILED BRIDE
  
  �UNO WELLS
  
  CONTENTS
  Prologue
  1. The Games Queens Play
  2. Turned Away
  3. Feeding Station Number Five
  4. Noble Mission
  5. Desperate Times
  6. Mortal Danger
  7. Taste of Pleasure
  8. Light of Day
  9. Hunkered Down
  10. Wrapped in Luxury
  11. Little Spawn Big Secrets
  12. Ghost Signals
  13. Not Dressed For Adventuring
  14. Soul Searching
  15. Glowing Worms
  16. Taking Liberties With A Queen
  17. Worshiped By A God
  18. Hatchlings
  19. Ten Kinds of Surprised
  20. Plotting Bloodlines
  21. Twin Protectors
  22. Hatchlings, Again.
  23. Live Birth
  Glossary
  
  PROLOGUE
  MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, DEEP IN THE EXION STAR SYSTEM, THE FIRST DRACONIAN FEMALE
  entered the cave of ascension. She passed through the softly glowing waters, noticing tiny glowing
  blobs moving about in the water. Whether they were finless fish or worms was difficult to tell, for
  they had the characteristics of both as well as thin filaments growing out of their frail bodies.
  Knowing the cave must be her divine dest