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Book cover for Her Soul to Take (Souls Trilogy, #1)

Her Soul to Take (Souls Trilogy, #1) by Harley Laroux

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In French, there’s a phrase for the random urge to jump from high places, the irrational desire to swerve into traffic despite imminent destruction: l'appel du vide, the call of the void. Those sudden feral impulses tend to be shoved away ...more

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“I passed so many sleepless nights wondering how I could ever escape him. And yet I found the true fetters were the ones of my own creation. Those nights I kept circling the same ancient questions…The questions were powerful magic indeed, for they kept me trapped there, motionless…Until I broke the spell my mind has cast, I could never be free.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“There's very little worse than when our heroes fail us, is there?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“Maybe the perfection of his furnishings was trying to compensate for something. A well-ordered house for a decaying mind.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“In some way, she had always yearned for this, to slip through the final crack in the world. But she has a rope to teether her now, and walls that stood, and a foundation that was strong.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“I’ve read your book a hundred times, maybe ore. It was a friend when I didn’t have any. IT was the only thing that said I was sane while the world was telling me I was mad. It saved me in more ways that I can count. Because I knew no matter how afraid I felt, I wasn’t truly alone.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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