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Shadow of the Forsaken (Her Forsaken Mates #2)

by Olivia K. Moto (Goodreads Author)

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Blissful Masquerade (Ruthless Desires, #1)

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The Shattered Kingdom: (Book 2 of The Cursed Kingdom series)

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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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