The Lonely Ones
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Everyone knows not to stray into the Grim Woods. If you do, the fair ones will take you.
Artemis Redbrook, a lonely hunter, makes a deal with a fae to hunt those fearsome woods when his village is dying of hunger and the future looks bleak. He knew what monsters lurked within the woods and prepared himself for the battles to come, but never expected to stumble across a sleeping prince. Let alone fall for him.
A love between a human and fae, could it spell the end or a new beginning?
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