Killing Time
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Last published Mon, Aug 6, 2012
Elizabeth Rose McCoroner lived in the small town of Fairfax, England. After a blissful childhood of pure oblivion, Eliza grew up learning to deal with society's classes and discrimination.
That was then, before the war broke out and before she decided that society's view on things wasn't what she cared about.
That was then, before Eliza found where her heart lay, with the man society had frowned upon, in the midst of the battlefield.
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