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Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTen years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way...Categorized as:
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![The Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Bundle by James Rollins]()
The Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Bundle by James Rollins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...Categorized as:
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![Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison]()
Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters...Categorized as:
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![Fast Ice by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
Fast Ice by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet in the latest novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of Adventure.After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world to investigate... -
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![The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison]()
The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation’s accounts...Categorized as:
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![Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsANCIENT SECRETS. MODERN WEAPONS . . . When Kurt Austin rescues the crew of a Scottish trawler, he finds himself trying to save them not once but twice. First, from the violent storm that dashes their vessel into jagged rocks and, second, from the deadly gunmen desperate to get their hands on its lost cargo of stolen Egyptian artefacts...Categorized as:
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![The Cain Conspiracy by Nick Thacker]()
The Cain Conspiracy by Nick Thacker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVicente Garza and Ravenshadow are still at large. Entire village populations in Peru have gone missing...Ben and Julie and the rest of the CSO crew want to find out why.Science, religion, and history collide... in a terrifying finale.The Harvey Bennett Thrillers begins a new chapter with The Cain Conspiracy. If you've enjoyed the series so far, this is one book you will not want to miss... -
![The Swagger Sword: Templars, Columbus and the Vatican Cover-up by David S. Brody]()
The Swagger Sword: Templars, Columbus and the Vatican Cover-up by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the 1980s, a Vatican archbishop and rogue group of Freemasons were implicated in the murder of Pope John Paul I. A decade later, that same cleric illicitly acquired an ancient Templar scroll directly undermining fundamental Church teachings. Today, historians Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn stumble upon a sword engraved with a map leading to this hidden scroll...Categorized as:
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![The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul]()
The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler...Categorized as:
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![The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani]()
The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA BRUTAL MURDER. A HORRIFYING SECRET.ONLY BEN CAN EXPOSE THE TRUTH.A lost, aimless and hard-drinking Ben Hope has wandered back to his old haunt in Ireland. The ex-SAS soldier is searching for peace, but trouble soon appears when Kirsten Hall, a young journalist, is brutally murdered right in front of him. Unable to prevent it, Ben is driven by guilt to hunt down the killers...Categorized as:
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![The Sacred Sword by Scott Mariani]()
The Sacred Sword by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the seventh bestselling Ben Hope conspiracy thriller, the action shoots back in time to the days of Jesus Christ – and a buried secret that has staggering implications for the world as we know it…Returning to the UK to try to sort out his stormy personal life, Ben runs into two old friends. Simeon and Michaela were once his fellow students at Oxford – now they are The Reverend and Mrs Arundel...Categorized as:
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![The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEverywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure...Categorized as:
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![The Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins]()
The Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA series of strange events throws the world into turmoil. As a manned Chinese rocket explodes upon launch, three American astronauts, each separated by thousands of miles, are murdered. Then an archaeologist in Croatia uncovers a new cavern system that reveals elaborate primitive paintings by a tribe of Neanderthals... -
![Kingdom of Darkness by Andy McDermott]()
Kingdom of Darkness by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHistory’s most sought after treasure is now mankind’s worst fear.In Los Angeles, a desperate man seeks out renowned archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase -- only to be gunned down in front of them. The assassin is soon identified as a ninety-year-old Nazi war criminal -- with the body of a healthy forty-year-old...Categorized as:
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![Seven Shades of Evil by Robert McCammon]()
Seven Shades of Evil by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New York Times–bestselling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense. From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Matthew Corbett has faced enemies of all kinds, from serial killers to sorcerers...Categorized as:
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![The Amber Secret by David Leadbeater]()
The Amber Secret by David Leadbeater
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA vanished relic. A deadly prize. The half-mad explorer Dante Caruso swears he’s found a fabled Russian relic called the Amber Room, and he’s attracting the wrong kind of attention. A ruthless team of Ukrainian relic hunters called R24 has kidnapped him and his family; they want to know where the Amber Room is—and they’ll spill blood to find it...Categorized as:
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![Dark Stars by C.S. Quinn]()
Dark Stars by C.S. Quinn
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Great Fire has reduced London to smouldering embers. From the ashes, thief taker Charlie Tuesday is drawn to investigate a string of strange murders. Mutilated corpses are washing up at Deptford, each marked with a dire astrological prediction. But only London’s best crime-solver realises the killer’s deadly offerings will soon unleash a devastating force on England...Categorized as:
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![The Armada Legacy by Scott Mariani]()
The Armada Legacy by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA sunken secret. A missing woman. A race against time.Former SAS major Ben Hope is relaxing at his home in Normandy when he hears the worst news of his life. His ex-girlfriend Dr Brooke Marcel has been kidnapped.Racing against the clock, Ben’s frantic search for Brooke leads him from Ireland to the Spanish mountains and the rainforests of Peru... -
![The Devil Colony by James Rollins]()
The Devil Colony by James Rollins
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsDeep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery — hundreds of mummified bodies — stir international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts to the bodies’ origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script... -
![The Shadow Project by Scott Mariani]()
The Shadow Project by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOnly one man can foil a plot set to change the course of history…The latest heart-stopping novel from the rising star of the conspiracy thriller genre...Categorized as:
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![The Ark Files by Luke Richardson]()
The Ark Files by Luke Richardson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImagine a secret manuscript that could change the world, and you’re the only person who knows where it is.Professional treasure hunter EDEN BLACK is no stranger to action. After all, the artifacts she spends her life returning to their rightful owners aren’t always easy to access.When Eden’s father dies in a plane crash, her life’s turned upside down... -
![The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul]()
The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . .When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine...Categorized as:
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![Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler]()
Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn ancient mystery becomes an all-too-real modern threat for Dirk Pitt and his colleagues, in an extraordinary adventure novel in one of suspense fiction's most beloved series.The murder of a team of U.N. scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off Detroit. An attack from tomb raiders on an archeological site along the Nile... -
![The Last Monument by Michael C. Grumley]()
The Last Monument by Michael C. Grumley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne small handwritten letter,Sent from a dark, remote corner of the planet,And lost in the system for sixty years,Is about to change the entire human race.Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow..Categorized as:
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![The Human Scale by Lawrence Wright]()
The Human Scale by Lawrence Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLawrence Wright at the height of his powers. Centering around the newfound—and forced—relationship between an American/Palestinian FBI agent and a hardline Israeli cop, working together uneasily to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. Moving, thrilling, with extraordinary scope, it does for Palestine and Israel what Gorky Park did years ago for Russia...Categorized as:
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![The Medici Return by Steve Berry]()
The Medici Return by Steve Berry
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series --- an adventure that takes Cotton to Italy and Tuscany to solve a five hundred year old mystery...Categorized as:
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![Empire of Gold by Andy McDermott]()
Empire of Gold by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNina Wilde and Eddie Chase are back for their seventh blockbusting adventure by the bestselling author of THE HUNT FOR ATLANTIS, Andy McDermott...Categorized as:
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![The Temple Legacy by D.C. Macey]()
The Temple Legacy by D.C. Macey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven hundred years ago, in a time of war and betrayal, Europe’s greatest treasure disappeared. The men who guarded it vanished into history.In Edinburgh today, former élite British Military Intelligence officer Sam Cameron has turned to the quieter world of archaeology. Together with young church minister Helen Johnson, he leads his students on a field trip... -
![The Blooding by James McGee]()
The Blooding by James McGee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawkwood finds himself behind enemy lines in America during the war of 1812—for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Patrick O'Brien1812: Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned spy, is stranded behind enemy lines, in America, a country at war with Britain...Categorized as:
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![The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker]()
The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaith, history, science and love collide in this fast-paced action adventure.High school teacher Shaun Strickland is shocked when he receives a last-minute invitation from Cambridge University to deliver a paper on the relationship between space and time, something he has been studying for years. This could be the break he s been longing for... -
![The Nomination: A Novel of Suspense by William G. Tapply]()
The Nomination: A Novel of Suspense by William G. Tapply
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Nomination is a fast-paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics. Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand-picked by his friend the president to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court... -
![The Heretic's Treasure by Scott Mariani]()
The Heretic's Treasure by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn ancient fortune has lain hidden for thousands of years, one so powerful that men will kill to protect it. And only one man can unearth it...Categorized as:
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![The Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
The Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTreasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway... -
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![The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever...Categorized as:
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![The Oracle by Clive Cussler]()
The Oracle by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo return in a new adventure as they search for an ancient scroll--which carries a deadly curse--in this thrilling addition to Clive Cussler's bestselling series.In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army... -
![Havana Storm by Clive Cussler]()
Havana Storm by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDirk Pitt returns, in the thrilling new novel from the grand master of adventure and number one New York Times best-selling author.While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous - a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba... -
![The Valhalla Prophecy by Andy McDermott]()
The Valhalla Prophecy by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNina and Eddie have been thinking about taking a break to start a family. The IHA has nothing major going on at the moment and Nina has been offered a large advance to write a book-it might be the perfect time for a sabbatical. But those dreams are quickly dashed when the new U.N...Categorized as:
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![The Medusa Stone by Jack Du Brul]()
The Medusa Stone by Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the tiny African nation of Eritrea, the American spy satellite Medusa has crashed but not before its sensors revealed an underground kimberlite pipeline, the telltale sign of a huge load of diamonds. The mine turns out to be King Solomon's Lost Mine, but with it is a tale of heartbreak---it was children who worked and died in the mine for 400 years, leading to many local myths of curses...Categorized as:
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![The 6th Extinction by James Rollins]()
The 6th Extinction by James Rollins
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn a masterful epic of timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes mankind to its endpoint, to a fate written in rock and ice in an event known as The Sixth Extinction. A remote military research station broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling message: Kill us all...Categorized as:
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![The Tombs by Clive Cussler, Thomas Perry]()
The Tombs by Clive Cussler, Thomas Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHusband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . .Categorized as:
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![Pirate: Fargo Adventures #8 by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
Pirate: Fargo Adventures #8 by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'Delivers the action and thrills expected. The best book to date featuring the married treasure hunters' Daily Mail From Arizona to Jamaica to England, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo unravel another ancient and cryptic mystery. An 800-year-old treasure . . . An ancient cypher wheel . . . A brutal murder . . -
![The Solomon Curse by Clive Cussler, Russell Blake]()
The Solomon Curse by Clive Cussler, Russell Blake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters... -
![The Striker by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott]()
The Striker by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell returns in the remarkable new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss... -
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![The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott]()
The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing...Categorized as:
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![The Doomsday Prophecy by Scott Mariani]()
The Doomsday Prophecy by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Ben Hope decided to give up rescuing kidnap victims and return to the theology studies he had abandoned years before, he should've known that fate would decide differently. When his old professor begs him to find his missing daughter, Ben soon finds himself launched into his most dangerous mission yet...Categorized as:
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![The Tower by Simon Toyne]()
The Tower by Simon Toyne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter the rise comes the fallWhen a cyber-attack at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland disables the Hubble telescope and the Nobel Prize-winning scientist in charge disappears, the only clues left behind are a cryptic countdown clock and a chilling message displayed on the missing man's computer: Mankind Must Look No Further...Categorized as:
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![The Anonymous Source by A.C. Fuller]()
The Anonymous Source by A.C. Fuller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFIND THE SOURCE. BREAK THE STORY. STAY ALIVE. ONE YEAR AFTER the 9/11 attacks, Alex Vane--a brilliant, fitness-obsessed reporter for The New York Standard--wants nothing more than to break into the flashy world of TV news...Categorized as:
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![Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell, David Case]()
Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell, David Case
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnother taut nautical thriller from Bernard Cornwell, author of WILDTRACK and the Sharpe series. John Rossendale's home is the sea; in his 38-foot cutter, he is far away from his disagreeable, contentious family and his role as black sheep and heir to an impoverished earldom. Still, mystery and danger have a way of finding him even when he is far from any coast... -
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The House of Long Ago by Steve Berry, M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe time has come for Cassiopeia Vitt to sell her ancestral home. It sits on a Spanish bluff by the Mediterranean Sea, and bears the name Casa de Hace Mucho Tiempo, House of Long Ago. Trapped inside its walls are memories from a time when Cassiopeia was growing from a rebellious adolescent into a thoughtful young woman—regretful times when she often found herself estranged from her parents...Categorized as:
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