A Joker's Game
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Last published Mon, Aug 1, 2022
Thatcher Lyoun is the crown prince. He has been given a comfortable life and has always had his future planned. But on the day of his sixteenth birthday, things begin to change in ways he never expected. Are his parents the good people he thought they were? Who is this girl who says they are betrothed? Why has he begun having strange dreams and even stranger, waking visions? Most importantly, who is the shadowy figure lurking in Thatcher's mind and why does it seem like he is playing a game with all of their lives? Thatcher will have to navigate through a world he was never prepared for while trying to answer the questions he never knew to ask.
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