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The Striga's Curse [Work in Progress]
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New York City, 1993. A city of shadows and neon, pay phones and secrets.
Jiulia Calista Crișana has been alive for four hundred and thirteen years and she has spent two centuries studying a forbidden text that could undo it all. She is scholar, thief, art dealer, predator.
She is also very, very alone.
Gilles Rousseau is twenty-eight, French, and dangerous. A Benandanti wolf operative sent to locate Jiulia and the book she guards, he was trained to hunt creatures like her.
Three supernatural factions - vampires, witches, and wolves - are bound to an ancient grimoire called the Codex Limina, and each will kill to control what it contains. But the Codex is not a weapon. It is a cure. And the only woman who can unlock it is falling for the man who was sent to destroy her.
From the seedy grandeur of Times Square to the forests of the Carpathians, The Striga's Curse is a novel about flesh and blood and impossible choices.
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