Like a Butterfly
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Last published Tue, Feb 19, 2019
I am like a butterfly. I am attracted to death. I am death or I bring it. I am everyone's enemy including my own with one mission to end to people who made me this.
Darcie Bathory is a trained assassin thanks to her demon Grandfather, literally. Not that she minds it is what she was born to do. When he gives her a new mission one she would rather not accomplish, but she reluctantly goes in undercover. But she bites off more than she can chew. When it comes to the Morgan family they just might be everything she wants and hold the key to what could finally make her human.
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