Joel

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Jade City

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Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

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Working for the Devil (Dante Valentine, #1)

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Sharp Ends (First Law World #7)

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Douglas Preston

“prolixity.”
― Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities

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“A secret’s not like coin. It doesn’t keep its value in the spending.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: kaz-brekker, secret

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Dark Urban Fantasy Group — 1 member — last activity Sep 21, 2014 07:16PM
A compilation of Urban Fantasy novels with a darker focus.

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