Between Cards and Shadows
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- Parts 10
MatureOngoing1h 27m
Last published Wed, Oct 1, 2025
In a realm ruled by secrets and shadows, Mairen Kaurel walks the fine line between light and darkness. Born with the gift to glimpse fate through tarot, she serves as a healer-in-training and advisor of hidden truths. But no vision has ever prepared her for Rikard Vaelmon - the brooding Lord of the Southern Vale, carved from silence and tragedy.
He warns her not to fall. He says he cannot love.
Still, he returns.
Their fragile connection threatens to shatter when Varyn d'Bergel, Rikard's lifelong friend and court favorite, sets his sights on Mairen - not out of love, but something far more twisted: rivalry, revenge... or something he dares not name.
As passions burn and betrayals twist the threads of destiny, Mairen must choose between the man who holds her heart and the one who tempts her soul.
But the cards never lie.
And fate always takes its due.
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