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Devious Lies
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Ongoing, First published Jun 13, 2025
Mature
He's the king of the underworld.

She's the assassin sent to kill him.

Selene doesn't do questions. She does what she's told 

kill, disappear, repeat.

 But when her newest target is Damien Dragunov, a man feared by the world and untouchable by everyone she knows something's off.

Now she's caught in a deadly game between the man who owns her and the one she was sent to eliminate.

The deeper she goes, the more twisted the truth becomes.

And in a world built on lies, betrayal might be the only thing that feels real.
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