“What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?”
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
In this richly imagined fantasy, a young protagonist embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets of her past and the fate of her world, encountering a cast of intriguing characters and navigating a complex web of political intrigue and magical powers. more
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