Crown and Grit : From Shadows to Starlight
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Last published Fri, Mar 21, 2025
A thief in disguise. A runaway prince. A fateful encounter deep within the shadows of the forest.
Emilia has spent years living on the edge, where a single misstep could shatter the fragile illusion she has built. To the world, she is Emilio, a cunning, streetwise rogue who bows to no one. But when she crosses paths with Damien, a mysterious traveler with secrets of his own, her carefully guarded world begins to unravel.
Bound by circumstance yet divided by truth, their uneasy alliance soon becomes a tangled web of deception, longing, and destiny. In a world where survival demands lies and love is the most perilous gamble of all, one choice will change everything.
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