The Spell at Dawn
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At the first light of dawn, the rose-colored skies drew Maria Letizia Soreta outside... only for her to return to find her home in flames and her entire family perished.
And in the flickering firelight, she glimpses the shadow of the country's dictator, Queen Florence.
What follows is even worse. Her father is publicly framed as a monster, blamed for the disappearance of young girls, and said to have killed himself along with his family in the inferno.
Letizia refuses to believe the lies.
Instead, she vows to uncover the queen's darkest secrets and take vengeance on the everyone who destroyed everything she held dear.
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