City Lights (Book 1)
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"Well done April. You have survived the first test"
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April has always loved the city. Even from a distance, the luminous lights would draw her in. She alway wondered about it, and the people there.
April enters the city on her sixteenth birthday, against her own her own mother's word. It's a only a city, what harm could it have? But April doesn't know something about herself that her mother does. A secret that could destroy her world as she knows it forever.
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