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Last published Mon, May 2, 2016
In an old land ruled by a tyrannical dictator the slow brewing pockets of rebellion are about to have their day. When Catherine Brown, a rich aristocrat collides with Alexander Harwood, a hot blooded revolutionary what will happen to their ill fated union? And what will happen to those that rebel against a force much stronger than the passion that fuels their own fighting. Though the past is inescapable and the present unavoidable, the future really is unknown.
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