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Fortune and Misfortune- The story of Mary what's-her-name
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Ongoing, First published Feb 26, 2016
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Mary Lillian Blake is defiantly not the favorite of the many, many maids in Isambard Kingdom Brunnel's Victorian mansion. Born and raised in her little corner of England, she's really never seen anything else and she's come to terms with it. The streets are cruel, after all. One miserable day, Mary finds the one person she loves as family on the kitchen floor cold and dead as stone. Secrets are then spread. Blood is spilled. Maybe this adventure is what Mary dreamed of all along...
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