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Best Left in the Shadows

by Mark Gelineau, Joe King · 2015 · 80 pages

Book 1 of the Best Left in the Shadows series

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A Highside girl. Beaten. Murdered. Her body found on a Lowside dock. A magistrate comes looking for answers. For justice.

Alys trades and sells secrets among the gangs and factions of Lowside. She is a daughter of the underworld. Bold. Cunning. Free. When an old lover asks for help, she agrees. For a price.

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Together, they travel into the dark heart of the underworld in search of a killer.

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Genre
fantasymysterycrimehistorical fictionromance
Audience
new adult
Length
short · 80 pages
Form
novellashort stories

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