The Croatoan Calling
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It started as a story. The kind you chase for headlines. The kind you don't expect to live.
When a string of disappearances brings journalist-in-training Lyra to a quiet, off-the-map town, she thinks it's just another assignment. A historical rabbit hole. A forgotten legend.
Then she meets him-Thane.
Then she meets him-Keiran.
And suddenly, the line between myth and memory starts to unravel.
Secrets buried in blood.
A name echoing through time: Croatoan.
And a girl who was never just a girl.
Lyra's not here to write the story.
She is the story.
If you're into cursed bloodlines, morally gray heirs, enemies who might be something more, and a mystery that spirals into something much bigger than anyone expected...
Start reading here.
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