The darkness within
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When Addison's father gets a promotion she can't help but be proud of him but when she finds out they're moving she is absolutely livid. Shadow wood is a small town in the middle of nowhere but there's Something's wrong with her new town. She just can't put her finger on it. She dismisses the feeling deciding she's just being paranoid and tries to look at the bright side of things until the night she has an accident and almost dies. She knows what she saw and the boy who came from the shadows and saved her, knows too. Now she can't help but feel like all she ever knew was wrong and to top it off. Something is different about her. Something within her has awakened, something dark and powerful. She's afraid. Now, him and his family need her. A war is raging and she may be the key they've been waiting for to tip the scales. Can she find a way to control the darkness growing inside her or will it completely destroy her?
"Ex tenebris aligera spes" from darkness comes hope with wings.
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