We Are Stars And Shadows
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Last published Sat, Mar 27, 2021
❛ secrets surround us; trust guides us
revenge blinds us; betrayal kills us. ❜
When it turns silent, she hears them. The voices whispering to her those secrets hidden in depth for long. Trying to understand them was never her intention, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Nylah Roberts has been on the move ever since her heart desired to avenge the one she cherished her whole life; to find the murderer who made her life take a sharp turn. What she comes across, is a profile that is drenched in the blood of the corpses that has been a victim to New York's deadliest assassin, leading her to take the role of a shadow inorder to finish off one.
But when she finds herself tangled among the knots of unending secrets, will she be able to escape those voices that scream the agony from betrayals, revenge, trust and love?
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