Just the Beginning
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Aspen Gaste led a normal life, well besides the fact that her mom had "died" a year back and her older brother, Aronn, just up and left unannounced. She has been through so much in the last year, trying to get over her mother's sudden death. But what if the last year had all been a lie? And what if the world she knows now, is not the world she gets to stay in? Thrown into a life full of demons, supernatural creatures, love, family, and hatred; Aspen has to find the surface of it all before she is too late.
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