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Last published Tue, Nov 9, 2021
Villagers from the town of Atheina have been mysteriously disappearing, Rowen Cromwell, Elora Langley, and Olive Remington are secretly connected to the intertwines and roots of all darkness going on in Atheina. The girls have their own conflicts of romance to resolute, can they get to the bottom of all the corruption in Athens, without losing some of their own?
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