Bitter Beauty
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Last published Thu, Apr 30, 2015
Mercy Costelloe has lived her whole life in the tiny town of Windrip. She is an average girl in her town; apprenticing beneath her mother to be the next town apocotherapist, getting married to her love Garrett Chichele in an arranged marriage, and eventually she'll have kids and teach them too. Her whole life has been planned out.
Just not like that.
When her wedding day is disrupted by a tragic event, she becomes a pawn in a royal dispute and is forced to live a life she had not planned; a life of fear, danger, and uncertainty.
To her, it's a life she dares to embrace. But at what cost?
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