Shadow and Dust
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Last published Sun, Jan 15, 2017
Lady Mara, a noble woman cursed with power, is reluctantly caught in the political war of her troubled kingdom after the King's troops turn on her family. Caught between her morals and her conceptualization of how to achieve the greater good, Mara is faced with the difficult choice of deciding who lives and who dies.
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