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V. L. Cooke is the author of the Custodian of the Golden Assembly series. She lives in the Upstate region of South Carolina but is a Pacific Northwest woman at heart. She is currently a full-time college student working on her second master’s degree after receiving her MFA in writing with an emphasis in fiction in 2019 at the young age of fifty-one. When not busy with school and writing V. L. is a nerd devoted to all things Supernatural (honestly it is research) and the pet parent to her beloved dog. She adores traveling to find new locations to use in her books. She is currently working on the fourth and fifth books in the Custodians of the Golden Assembly series and has another series in the development stages. Feel free to contact her, V ...more

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	Golden Opportunity (Custodian of the Golden Assembly #1) 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seas of Gold (Custodian of the Golden Assembly #2) 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Parachute (Custodian of the Golden Assembly #3) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Rule (Custodian of the Golden Assembly #0.5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Gold (Custodian of the Golden Assembly #4) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Sneak Peek Into a Project I've Been Working On.

Last year I completed my MFA in writing. My thesis project was 100 pages of an urban fantasy novel. Like the Custodian of the Golden Assembly, series it has an older heroine who is larger than life. Here is a 3,400 word introduction to Hattie and the world of her novel Spectre of a Chance which I hope to release in 2021.

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