The Secrets We Keep
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If you have to go through hell for those you love, would you do it? Would you lie, cheat and risk your heart being broken just to know they will be safe? For Quinndalin Woodlander the answer was easy. Yes.
Her mother disappeared about two months ago and she has tried everything to find her, but it just kept on leading from one dead end to another. So Quinn decided to seek help from the local vigilante, The Dark Archer, but it turns out that his true identity is non other than someone she despises, but she is desperate. He offers to help her but it comes at a price. A price that seems harmless at first, but soon Quinn realizes that she's playing part in a bigger, deadlier game.
Will she continue being someone else's pawn? Or will she become a player herself? After all, every rose needs to learn how to use her thorns.
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