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The Shadow of Gloom

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*Book One of The Accursed Chronicles*

August was a man from a normal world, living a mundane life until one night everything changed, and he was sent spiraling into a world stuck forever in winter, full of magic, creatures, and a curse that has grip over the land, a curse known as the Vale.

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August has been plunged straight into the claws of a life polar opposite of the one he had been living. After stumbling into the hands of Gloom, a leader of The Remnant, August is bound to Gloom's side and is pulled helplessly into the turmoil of Laelmos. August wishes he could return home, but his purpose in Laelmos is much bigger than he first thought as he discovers he has been lied to his entire life. August is left to wonder whether his life will ever be normal again or if he will have to embrace his new reality that threatens to destroy him and those around him. 

[ content warnings: vulgar language, violence, must be 18+ to read, mentions of death and suicide as well as verbal, mental, and physical abuse ]

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