Close quarters
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Last published Mon, Oct 13, 2025
Eva Ashcroft has always felt different.
Tarot cards whisper to her, crystals hum in her palm, and the university library where she works feels more like a cathedral than a workplace - a place where secrets cling to the air like dust.
She tells herself it's all just intuition, a knack for sensing things others can't. But when blood and moonlight enter her life, Eva learns intuition is only the beginning.
Two men. One cursed by the moon, the other by blood. Both impossibly tied to her.
Blood will spill, and Eva's own awakening will come at a terrible price.
Because once her magic rises, nothing in London's shadows will ever be the same.
*****Disclaimer. This is fantasy, none of this is real.
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