The Darkness Within
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MatureOngoing12h 24m
Last published Tue, Aug 15, 2023
A year and a half ago, events in her life prompted Ciara to walk into the forest and teach herself to survive. A snowstorm that forces her to take refuge in a cave, the finding of a lost wolf-pup, and running into a pack of werewolves in the woods throws her headfirst into a waring supernatural world where she is to play a key role in ending a seven-hundred-year war. Will she be able to heal her broken soul and save those she comes to care for, or did fate choose wrong, throwing the world into eternal chaos?
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