The Waking Age
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Last published Wed, Sep 24, 2014
Irene Caine lives in the City. It need not any other name because it was the only one left. A war almost 200 years ago ravaged the world, and the City was built to protect what was left of humanity. A civilization stuck in the Victorian Age that the War had ravaged. Irene goes on a journey that may take her past the questions that always filled her head, beyond anything she thought possible.
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