The Golden Thread: A Modern Cajun Fairy Tale
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Josie Breaux had lived almost all her life as a modern-day nomad. That was strange enough, but at sixteen, she developed the ability to control plants. She thought moving to her mother's rural hometown in south Louisiana would be a way to gain some normalcy. Soon, though, she finds herself thrust into a magical conflict hundreds of years in the making. The choices she makes may very well cost her her humanity and her life.
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