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Dark Emerald
A Fantasy Novel by T.L. Thorne
Book 1 of the The Manifested Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Dark Fantasy,
- Character-Driven,
- Survivor Story,
- Magical Experimentation
This book is for you if you're into...
- Dark fantasy centered on trauma and survival
- Plots involving magical experiments on unwilling subjects
- Reluctant alliances between damaged survivors
When you realize men are the cruelest creatures in the night, you no longer fear the dark.
Twenty-year-old Ayvre is just trying to provide for her family when she is captured, tortured, and experimented on. After a strange rescue, she tries to forget the nightmare she endured, but when she is asked to go back to Emerald City to help with the investigation into her captors, she agrees, despite the rift it creates in her new life.
Grayson, a fellow survivor, unwillingly resurfaces, and together they uncover a twisted plot to trigger magical properties in non-magical folk. Is that what they did to her?
Ayvre must pull herself from the darkness and forge ahead—whatever that means for her future.
A character-driven dark adult fantasy that delves deep into the recesses of personal strife and darkness and rising from it.
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