Child of Mara
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Mar is blessed, a child shared and loved by both the Mother and Father Tribes and destined to bring about the Great Convergence. However, when bounty hunters steal Mar to be studied by the academic Literans, Mar's destiny is forgotten, reduced to dreams that Mar cannot piece together on their own.
As the world meets the strange and curious Mar, the truth about the Marans and all of En will at last come to light.
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