In the shadow of the Veil
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In a city ruled by lies, two strangers collide - and nothing will ever be the same.
Kaitlyn Vale has spent her life behind Dominion walls - a model citizen, a talented tailor, and a firm believer in the order the Veil Index protects. But when a wounded stranger crashes into her shop, bleeding secrets and hunted by the Black Veil, the threads of her carefully woven life begin to unravel.
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