happyquill
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Welcome to the Veil or rather-my condolences.
A slow-burn fantasy with a hint of romance, a pinch of action and mystery and a generous sprinkle of dark humour.
Here you'll find mean angels, polite demons and grim reapers escorting souls (saints, sinners and mostly, comely ones) while juggling afterlife paperwork.
Meet Clark Parker, ex-saint turned scourge of hell turned reaper, in search of her proverbial 'soulmate' while she fights rogue souls and deals with death and bureaucracy.
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Synopsis:
For 500 years, she has been condemned to suffer.
Clark Parker is reincarnated thirteen times, only to live a cruel life.
In her final life, she dies a Saint, and the Veil offers her release: a chance at peace, at bliss-rebirth without sorrow.
She refuses.
Clark doesn't want to come back. She wants answers.
But the truth she seeks lies deep within the Old Archives, a place forbidden to all but reapers. And she isn't one-not yet.
To become an envoy of death, she must destroy what remains of her grace and taint her soul.
And there is only one place to break a Saint: Hell.
There, among the ruined and the wretched, she will rise. Through torment. Through the ranks of demons, and ascend as a reaper.
But the closer she comes to the truth, the colder the world becomes.
Because some secrets are chained for a reason.
And some names should stay in the dark.
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