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The cursed scythe

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First published 04/23


Plot: Charlotte McAndrew is a curse breaker in the city of Glasgow, trying to run her own curse breaking company with Maggie Harper and Jack Grace. They haven't had much luck making it big. But a terrifying new case is theirs to solve: a library infested with a curse so deadly that it has become a sentient serial killer that hunts its victims in the guise of the Grim Reaper. 

Facing off with the snobby curse breaker Andrew Brown, Charlotte and her friends must figure out who has cast this deadly curse and how to stop it before it's too late. Especially when Charlotte seems to be its next victim. 

(Also inspired by Lockwood & Co.)All Rights Reserved

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THE UNTOUCHABLE [COMPLETED] by februalia1

[FEATURED IN WATTPAD PARANORMAL: Occult & Afterlife]. === After two seasons of grief from losing her mother, Charlotte finally felt good enough to look forward to the spring, a spring that had so far brought so much for her to be thankful about: She had earned her Ph.D, she had gotten a good job, and she began to do her side business again as a clown-for-hire for kids birthday party. It was all good, and to top it off: She would spend a few weeks with her archaeologist dad in Europe, he was doing some excavation project there. But that trip became a nightmare for her when the archaeologist team became perfect means to unearth what had been buried for centuries. Something that should have remained buried. A demon lurking beneath the earth. A secret order of immortals. A man with his own dark past and origin. A powerful weapon that could tilt the balance of the battle between the good and the evil. Charlotte was caught in the middle of it all, and the only way for her to have a chance to survive was this: A marriage between the light and the darkness.

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