Light Amongst the Shadows: A World Not Like Ours
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LingeringShadowsv2
Ongoing, First published Jun 17, 2021
Mature
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(Cover design by Idgafology, all credit goes to them! please check out their cover shop!) Maple DeMilo is a well-known name, but for all the wrong reasons! With her constant run-ins with the cops and illegal street fighting, she's the last person anyone would expect to be a hero. But one day that all changes when she and her two friends find themselves in the world of Ethea! Elves? Dragires? Sligigs? An evil Shadow Lord that seeks to manipulate and destroy? Not exactly what she had been wishing for. As the path grows perilous and Maple and her friends are forced to find a way to defeat the spreading darkness, bonds will be formed and secrets will be revealed that could make or break her.
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