VERITY
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Verity had always wondered if she was her mother's daughter. Her mother had paid little or no attention to her, preferring her sisters and even her distance cousin over her.
When bankruptcy strikes her family again, her mother presented her to be married, not to a Duke, or an Earl but to a struggling young man who used to he her sister's lover.
Now she's stuck with a man who thinks she deceived him into marriage while his lover got married to a Duke.
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She never had anything. A name, a family, a home. Since she was born she was locked up by her family in their basement to be experimented on. For she was loved by the spirits and have the potential to gain their power. So they wanted to find a way to take it from her. But one day after she has lived for 7 years a powerful knight cut down her family and wanted to adopt her. She who has never been loved dont trust anyone but the spirits, but she has nowhere to go and can't survive on her own. So she accepts the knight's offer because the knights spirit tells her that she will be safe with her.
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