Dark Beauty
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Last published Fri, Jul 4, 2014
The more perfect you are the more disposable you become. The world is a perfect place where there is no tolerance for disappointment or regret. You set a foot wrong and the government will make sure you disappear.
Leila Valentine lives in a place which has been exiled and forgotten. Dark thoughts and terrible nightmares follow her every step. But when she is picked for a mission, to finish what her father didn't she has other plans than to respectfully follow orders from her superiors. As time ticks forward Leila is left in a world quite unlike her personal morals. Will she be able to disrupt the peace? Create havoc and chaos? Or will the light be able to recruit her as another one of its pawns?
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