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The Ballad of the Sun and Moon | Fourth Wing

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Parts 7
Time 2h 41m

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Astrea Ysoria thought the hardest part was surviving. She was wrong. The hardest part is learning that everyone she loves has been keeping secrets that could burn the world down.

And Xaden Riorson-the boy whose soul is so tangled with hers she can't tell where she ends and he begins-has been fighting a war behind her back while she lived in blissful ignorance.

They were written in the stars before either of them could read. Forged from the same cosmic fire, destined to find each other across lifetimes, universes, worlds that crumble and rebuild. But what happens when the person you were born to love becomes the person who's been lying to you since you learned to breathe?

Some truths set you free. Others destroy everything you thought you knew about soulmates and destiny and the kind of love that transcends time itself.

Now Astrea must choose: forgive the lies that kept her safe, or shatter the only love that has ever felt like coming home.

War orphans don't get fairy tales. But sometimes they get something more devastating.

They get a love that survives the truth.

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