Banished for five years, Lady Belinda Carrington returns to Willowfair, claiming to know things one would find impossible to believe. With her tainted reputation, can Belinda make Town Guard McKenzie Haverston help her in her pursuit of the truth?
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After her banishment five years ago, Belinda Carrington returns with secrets and tales too impossible to believe. But something in her lies makes McKenzie Haverston desperate for the truth...
When Belinda shows up in McKenzie's home asking for protection in return for important information on a case he's working on, he rejects her. But when he learns where she had been banished after her great scandal five years ago, he finds himself striking a deal with the woman-he protects her, she gives him answers. The question now is: how true is her tale?
She was once considered the fairest of them all, but one scandal later, she has become the most reviled. And she is also being hunted. If Belinda wants to stay alive, she has to start trusting McKenzie Haverston, a task she finds to be surprisingly easy to do. However, as the truth of the past begins to resurface, and the secrets of her scandal is revealed, Belinda is confronted by her own demons, causing her to doubt her own reality.
Trigger warnings: abuse, violence, mental trauma, sexual assault, mental health illness
Knowing yourself is more important than knowing someone else, so what do you do when you figure out your whole life is based on a lie?
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Vale is a peaceful town-- at least by night. By day the town is haunted by a monster who never seems to quit or move on. Fire, destruction and hopelessness describes the town between the deserted mountains, and what they need is a hero.
Corie does his job, wakes up at dusk, goes to sleep at dawn, like the other night patrollers, but he's curious about the beast. He has ideas on how to stop it, his mind is creative and big, but no one listens to his tiny figure... until it's too late.
Vale is close to ruins, the beast is more ruthless than before, and Corie realizes what his parents kept from him all those years-- but can he save his home?
