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The Shadows Become Her

Name: The Shadows Become Her
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Author: CLRobison

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A fantasy progression, a coming of age story, and a tale of revenge…

Alvixia “Vix” Altorelli’s idyllic childhood is disrupted in one tragic night when the duke’s fanatics ransack the Altorelli home and imprison the rest of her family, selling them into slavery across the ocean. Vix soon finds herself fleeing for her life and her freedom, fleeing to the faraway city of Floria on an island ruled by the mysterious Nurass, Prince of Shadows. In Floria, Vix’s sharp mind and talent for magic land her a spot at the Perdita Free Collegium, the world’s greatest school for spies, saboteurs, swashbucklers, seductresses and, some claim, practitioners of dark magic… and that suits Vix just fine. If the Collegium wants to give Vix the tools she needs to save her family and get her revenge on Duke Orso, she’ll take that deal any day of the week and twice on Saintsdays, even if that means making a deal with the Prince of Shadows himself. This is Vix’s tale.

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