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Shadow & Light

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Reads 490,769
Votes 8,744
Parts 6
Time 2h 44m

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When Liana Davis moves to Massachusetts, she brings her only daughter, an emergency fund, and what may be her late husband's most valuable and dangerous secret. 

When Dominic Carter moves into his fourteenth foster home, he is given an ultimatum: get along with his classmates, or be sent to youth confinement at thirteen years old.

When six-year-old Aurora Davis tumbles into Dominic's arms one night in Cambridge, he watches her fragile heart shatter between his hands, along with the last shred of his innocence. 

As the years pass and the secrets of their collective past threaten to drown them, he remains determined to protect her childlike innocence.

No matter the cost.All Rights Reserved

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Moonstruck

All seventeen-year-old Liana Lachey wanted was to get through her senior year at her new school, graduate, and go to college to get away from her Aunt. But everything changes for her when she sees Zev Hunter. Unbelievably good-looking and an enigma, Zev and his friends are hiding a secret that she can't figure out. But there is also another mystery, one that involves her, and soon, everything Liana thought she knew will change.