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The Last Paper Crane | ONC 2025
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  • Reads 550
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  • Parts 23
  • Time 3h 7m
-lostillusion
Complete, First published Feb 23
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Onc 2025 shortlister & Ambassador's pick!

In the midst of a wartime book ban, Yuri discovers a stack of love letters within one of the banned historical books. As she immerses into reading them, she realises that these letters were from an American soldier, Aiden, to his forbidden love, Midori, during World War II. But what starts as curiosity soon turns into shock for Yuri when she realises that Midori is not any ordinary woman; it is her grandmother, a person whom she believed to have known everything about.

As Yuri digs into the past, she finds love torn apart by war, destiny, and impossible decisions. Yet, as the letters draw her further into their existence, she begins to wonder whether the past is shaping her own future. And in the midst of conflict, might she, as well, be unwittingly crafting a romance of her own?

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The Letter

35 parts Complete

A letter found in a hidden room sends Raven on a life-changing journey. Mourning the loss of her father killed in a car accident, Raven leaves her city life behind to return to the family ranch that she inherited. However, after ten years of neglect, the ranch requires renovating. During the renovation, Raven learns there had once been another room now sealed away by a false wall. When the false wall comes down, an old study, dating back to the nineteenth century, is uncovered. While searching through an old writing desk, Raven finds an unsent letter hidden away in the drawer. The letter describes a forbidden relationship between a man named Viggo Astor in love with a woman betrothed to another man with arrangements for them to run away together. Besides the letter, all that's left of Viggo's existence is his luggage and an old newspaper clipping about Rome, Italy. Curious about what became of Viggo, Raven's obsessive search takes her to Rome, Italy, to find out the answers. Along the way, she meets a mysterious stranger, gets caught in the middle of a dangerous game, and learns the truth of what happened the night her father died.

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