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Celestia Dodd Book 1: The Eye of Shahvar

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Celestia Dodd's first investigation as a writer for The Dispatch doesn't go quite as planned. New York in 1889 is a city of unimaginable wealth and glamor, but also terrible poverty and shocking crime. What will happen to Celestia as she peers into the dark side of the Gilded Age?All Rights Reserved

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The Whispering Shadows

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