Of Love & Charlatans

Adeline Stark has traded her troubled youth for an unhinged romance masked by cunning schemes and sinister premonitions.

Brought together by a mysterious accident, Ensen Arc's (loose) string of morals begin to snap in an impassioned attempt to kick Adeline's visions of a departed lover from her mind. And the more twisted his schemes become, the more Adeline finds herself dancing the line of reality, fiction and a love story living somewhere in between.

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EXCERPT:

And when silence drifted between them, and their eyes averted to the sky, they'd see the sun on the right and the moon on the left. That's where they lived - where they always would. She'd never really know whose breath was last, or if it was both of theirs. But she'd look for him, if only on the nights when the sun was on the right and the moon on the left.

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A few of the relationships depicted in this story are abnormal or unhealthy. This story DOES NOT depict any graphic scenes of domestic abuse or physical assault but does allude to and lightly describe scenes of this nature when important to the plot. If you or anyone you know are experiencing events similar to the mind games or physical reactions discussed in this story, please speak to someone or call an expert for advice:

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