Dark Shadows
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Last published Mon, Aug 24, 2015
Set in the 16 hundreds, Marina, a troubled but talented young girl is forced to do the most terrible deeds for cruel and unkind men who wish to use her because of the special talents laying within. It is a dark time for that with power in there blood, and worse yet for women. But with both combined, the hardest is yet to come. And with her only family renched from her, and the strange but kind prince at her beck and call, it could be ether a beginning of survival, or something that could raze her kind to the ground. But why does she still long for the one thing that could destroy her and all she loves? Can she survive the betrayal from both sides?
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