Code of Shadows
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She can use magic.
But can she end a thousand year war?
Cait Agathist has always thought that she was normal, but that never explained why strange, or should I say logic defying, things always happened around her. She never should have believed herself normal, but when her biggest concern is passing her combat training's curriculum--why would she question some strange events? After one lucky, or maybe unlucky, display of power that wasn't quiet human, her life turns upside-down.
While trying to outrun her demise, she is thrust into a world that she never knew existed. There, in this magical new world, Cait truly begins to learn the powerful art of magic so that one day, if luck permits it, she might defeat the darkest power of her world.
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