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Silhouettes of America - Book 1 of The ARMOR Series [Completed]

LauvelliaxKnicht

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Time 3h 55m

LauvelliaxKnicht

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2nd Place Winner in the Midnight Sun Awards 2019 Action category ...

"The weak dies in the hands of the strong.
My nemesis may die, but I'll live.
I'll live because I am strong."
- Avery Collins
 
xx
 
An exhausted teenager was sleeping on the bench of a bus stop when a huge noise suddenly woke her. Fear crept under her skin when she saw masses of people running on the streets, pushing each other.
 
BANG!
 
Bombs and bullets rained in all directions. Blood graced the cemented streets. Dead bodies of people lay in every corner like debris. San Francisco is under a terrorist attack. The teen made a run for her life and tried to escape death.
 
She was Avery Collins, an 18-year-old US citizen. Abandoned by her assassin father at a young age, she swore that her life's mission was to find him - to answer lifelong questions that haunted her every day. Why did he train me to become a fighter at such a young age? Why had he then disappeared?
 
As the United States of America slowly collapsed behind her, Avery begins to uncover secrets that will change the course of her life forever - the truth about Jacob Collins, the status of her country, the thing about ARMOR and the real identity of the US President.

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