Broken Shades(ONC 2023)
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Last published Sun, Aug 20, 2023
Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives.
Aisha, Karen and Pamela can best be described as the contemporary supremes. Beautiful, smart, resourceful. Yet, something so dark and ominous haunts them, hovering over their heads like a dark cloud, threatening to expose them. They find a way to cope, to keep their heads up despite the shadows that is lurking.
However, they'll eventually come to the realization that all is not as it seems, double nature comes naturally to most and your second skin is not thick enough. Secrets would be unveiled, bonds would be broken, some repaired, mistakes would be made and lessons learnt too. In the end, some would conquer, others would cave.
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