Burnt
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Last published Tue, Jul 2, 2019
Growing up, I always knew what my life story would be. It would be to marry a highborn, have babies, make sure they marry another highborn, then die. Everything that happens in between is just nothing significant.
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Amelia Every meets a blacksmith when Noah Bering takes her out into the outskirts of town in Merli. The blacksmith does not know of Amelia's real identity or the fact that she is a highborn whose family works for the King.
However, her family is trying to find a lord for her to marry just like her sister, Charlotte.
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