Adelaide's Angel - ON HOLD
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Adelaide thought the stories she read late at night were just that…stories.
Until one morning, instead of waking up in her bed, in her room, she wakes up in an alleyway in an unknown city—to her, anyway. After a few questions and many scoldings for her inappropriate attire, she stumbles into a simple dress shop where she meets unexpected kindness from an unexpected ally.
As she wanders through a different time, in a different world she never knew to exist, Adelaide meets an eccentric dressmaker who seeks to become more than the owner of a spectacle, a mechanized angel who longs to be human once again, and an orphan who desires to escape his dead-end future. And amid it all she discovers more about herself than she knew there was to know.
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