The Preternatural Shadows
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Last published Tue, Jun 16, 2020
"You're telling me that I'm a superhuman?"
"Or in other words, a preternatural shadow."
Chloe Rose Winters hates to stand out more than anything else in the world, but with her fiery ginger hair and vivid blue green eyes, she was absolutely alluring in the crowds. Everything was perfectly normal for her, until one day, she discovered her strange ability and unleashed a power, which she hadn't realized she had it in her.
Sensing every ripple, bump and vibration, seeing with perfect clarity in a different spectrum of light, detecting specific smells, she knew her life is just about to be a dozen times more complicated.
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