Dangerous Illusion
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Last published Thu, Jun 27, 2019
"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness"
Aster West has always been on the move. Not long after her 16th birthday, she'd begun to have strange dreams, visions of places she could only describe as something out of a fairy tale and battlefields scared with death and destruction. She's quickly trapped between two worlds. One world ripped asunder by prejudice and power, and the other holding the only thing she'd ever loved. Can she decide between the people that need her and her illusions of happiness?
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