The Celestial Marionette
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In a world where fate pulls invisible strings. Lea lives caught between dreams and reality - haunted by visions that fell like memories from another life.
When a mysterious figure known only as The Hunter appears in her dreams, guiding her through realms of starlight, shadows, and forgotten promises. Lea beings to uncover a truth her soul has always known.
She is a marioneette carved from celestial light... and he is the one bound to her across lifetimes.
As dreams bleed into waking life, Lea discovers a hidden war between destiny and free will - and a connection to the Hunter that defies time, death, and the boundaries of this world.
But every string has a cost.
Every truth has a shadow.
And some love stories were written in the stars
long before either soul learned how to breathe.
A gothic, cinematic, soul-threaded tale of fate, memory, and two beings who were never meant to forget each other.
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