Shield of Shadows
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A forbidden romance between a young ruler and her appointed guardian, the repercussions of their impulsive act, and the terrible secrets that lay beneath the shadow of their actions, threatening to destabilize the tenuous peace that had been so carefully orchestrated to bind the fragile world together.
An original work that I came up with out of the blue. My first attempt at a lengthier short story in a long while. WIP( Work in progress).
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