Veiled Shadows
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Last published Thu, Feb 29, 2024
150 years ago a seal was broken and magic flooded the world. Bloodlines that had lain dormant for centuries were reawakened and chaos reigned.
Now, The Arc has taken over and order has been restored but it's a tenuous kind of peace. Anything and anyone who threatens that peace is snatched from their bed in the middle of the night, never to be seen again.
Lexi knows she's something different, something dangerous. So she's been living her life in the shadows, never letting anyone get too close. When, in a moment of desperation and adrenaline, she finds herself saving a powerful fae's life from the basement of an Arc facility, her world is turned upside down. She agrees to help the infuriating but beautiful man recover his power but it turns out to be more than she bargained for when they discover a device implanted inside him that blocks his magic. Bound by blood and secrets the pair must work together to figure out how to remove it before it's too late.
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