CLANDESTINE

Forced marriage? Death was Freyja Bielke's escape. Now, a traveling performer after a failed suicide, she's falling for a man with a secret so dangerous, it could expose her past and doom them all.

The memory of the arranged marriage and a gilded cage she'd rather die than inhabit still haunted her dreams. Death had been her only way out from her crumbling mental health and the voices in her head.

Now, somehow, fate gives her a second chance at life. Disguised and far from her former life, she decides to travel the land as a member of a tribe and a performer, finding solace and a fragile peace in the fleeting applause and anonymity of the road.

But her carefully constructed world teetered on the precipice of collapse when she got dangerously close to him.

His laughter was a melody that drew her in, and his eyes held a depth that mirrored her hidden pain. But beneath the charm and warmth, she sensed a secret lurking, a danger so profound that it threatened to shatter her carefully crafted lie and expose her to the forces she had so desperately tried to outrun, potentially dooming them both. When a desperate attempt to escape a suffocating life seems to begin backfiring, Freyja's old life and the forced marriage she fled may soon come knocking.

Would this love turn out to be a mistake too? Will Freyja be able to live her life afresh and in peace? Or will her feelings be the reason for her ruin?

Only time will tell.
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"Some stories are best left untold."

"Perhaps. But secrets, like buried treasure, have a way of being unearthed. And some treasures come with a curse."

"Then I prefer to perform without the burden of your scrutiny. I don't want my show to be ruined"

"We all carry burdens, Freyja. The question is, which ones will drown us, and which ones will help us fly? Even death is not an escape for some. "

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