Discover The Dark
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Last published Sat, Mar 28, 2020
Esther Jenkins has spent years avoiding detection from the government, and the local mob leader who would use her gifts as a lusus naturae, or unnatural for their own purposes.
Fate is not on her side when she runs afoul of Viktor Kenning and his darkly handsome enforcer Noah Parker. Viktor has been after someone with Esther's particular talents for a long time, so he offers her a proposition; decide if she's going to work for Viktor and his small army of unnaturals to find what he wants, or take her chances with the government.
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