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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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“There was a small prickle of grief when she thought about it, how perhaps she and Preston would never see eye to eye. But he believed her fear, her grief, her desire. That had to be enough.”
― 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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“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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“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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