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Possessive Mafia Vows by Vivy Skys
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI thought she was dead. Not even my billions or my Irish mafia could save the redhead I’d just claimed from the crash. Then she showed up—scarred, fierce, pregnant with my heir, and hunted by the Russian mob. Six years ago, I was dragged from the wreckage—burned, broken, and told she didn’t make it. My obsession. My punishment? Endless nightmares of her screams...Categorized as:
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Delirium by Katie May
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsELLIE. New secrets and shocking revelations have brought me and my guys closer together. We must work as a team to bring down the Paragons of Prosperity once and for all. But with one of my men presumed dead, another being actively recruited by the cult in question, and the other three chasing lead after lead, I fear we may be in way over our heads... -
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![Psychotic by Katie May]()
Psychotic by Katie May
ELLIE. They lied to me. Kept secrets. And now, I'm forced to pay the ultimate price. The Divine One sees me as a necessary sacrifice in this war I know very little about. Do I allow myself to become a pawn. .. or do I fight back with everything I have, regardless of the consequences? THE KINGS. The girl we adore and love is in the hands of our greatest enemy...Categorized as:
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![Pacific Prep: A Dark Academy Reverse Harem by R.A. Smyth, Michelle Lancaster]()
Pacific Prep: A Dark Academy Reverse Harem by R.A. Smyth, Michelle Lancaster
⭑⭒⭑ A TOP 100 AMAZON BESTSELLING SERIES ⭑⭒⭑. My name is Hadley Parker, and today I take control of my life. Today I start school at Pacific Prep. This is my new lease on life, and I won’t be wasting it. I need this, now, more than ever. I need the education, the promise of a future that I wouldn’t get anywhere else. These rich kids don’t like me though...Categorized as:
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![Dare Series Collection by Shantel Tessier]()
Dare Series Collection by Shantel Tessier
Are you ready to swim with the sharks? I DARE YOU. What do you do when the devil has you in his sights? You show him that you can play his game. Austin Lowes is new to town. She's running from a mom who hates her to her dad who cares nothing about her. Only a few months and she will be free, or at least, that's what she hopes . .. until she meets him. Cole Reynolds is the devil disguised as a man...Categorized as:
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![Burn to Ash by K.C. Kean]()
Burn to Ash by K.C. Kean
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBethany. Rise. Shine. Sleep. Repeat. To the world. Break. Darken. Cry. Lost. Behind closed doors. Nothing is as it seems in the Asheville home or this hell hole town. Then he shows up. Pushing my buttons and demanding I take more from life, be more, be…me. But I have no idea who that is... -
![Her Deadly Little Secrets by Lucy Darling]()
Her Deadly Little Secrets by Lucy Darling
The lure can learn to be the prey…. Blair. My life is filled with one crazy man after another. I'm a lure to their obsession and possession. Kidnapped and tossed into a hole, I'm sure my fate is finally sealed. Then I come face to face with Eros Marino and see that familiar look in his eyes. I'm starting to wonder if maybe, just maybe, I can use their own obsession against them... -
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Violent Promises by A.R. Breck
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsViolent Promises is the final book in the Blackridge series! When one reckless decision and a possessive heart lead to an inescapable debt. .. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d be at the mercy of a man who only wanted one thing, my death. With each passing hour, my growing despair wars with my murderous blood... -
![Eight Second Hearts by Kendra Moreno]()
Eight Second Hearts by Kendra Moreno
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIndie wants only one thing: to see her name on the front page news story. The problem is, she’s seen it before, but not because she wrote the article. Growing up, she only ever wanted to be a journalist. It almost destroys her to think that dream could be in shambles. But Indie is a fighter, and despite her family history, she manages to score a job with the local rodeo-themed newspaper... -
![Beautiful Deceit by R.E. Bond]()
Beautiful Deceit by R.E. Bond
*This series is unpublished and has been rewritten with brand new plot and books added to the series. This edition does not follow the updated storyline. I’m damaged. I’ve been through too much in my eighteen years. Between joining the Bloody Psychos and mourning my best friend,. I’m going a little crazy...Categorized as:
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![Touched By The Devil by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue]()
Touched By The Devil by Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFights, sex, and fast cars. Those are what Sebastian Wilcox is all about. On the outside he’s easy smiles and a quick temper, but on the inside, a war rages on. He told the Devils his biggest secret; during a vicious fight, he accidentally hurt someone who didn't deserve it. For months now, he's been cursed by the memory of her screams. But that’s not his only hidden truth...Categorized as:
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![Destroyed by Indie Black, Sienna Cousins]()
Destroyed by Indie Black, Sienna Cousins
He was supposed to protect me. Instead, he became the monster who turned my dreams into nightmares. He was supposed to love me. In the end, his love was poison, leaving me tarnished and hollow. His death was supposed to bring me peace. But, his memories continue to terrorize me. Since his first lecherous touch I’ve had only one purpose. One reason to not fully give into my demons :...Categorized as:
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![Hate Me by LP Lovell]()
Hate Me by LP Lovell
Anna. I am a whore. A slave. A possession. I accepted my fate long ago, but fate is not done with me yet. Freedom is so close I can almost taste it, only to have it snatched away under the guise of protection. A gilded cage is still a cage. Friend or foe? Saviour or oppressor? Rafael D’Cruze is a bad man. I hate him, so why do I feel safe with him? Rafael. She’s a favour. Collateral... -
![A Different Blue by Amy Harmon]()
A Different Blue by Amy Harmon
Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school... -
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![Deceitful Truths by A.R. Breck]()
Deceitful Truths by A.R. Breck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKidnapped. Broken. Hopeless. Confined into a dark, abandoned basement with nothing but the clothes on my back. There's no escaping obsession, especially one honed by a serial killer who's bound and determined to call me his. Forever. Every day grows more dire with death circulating my existence. I believe all hope is lost until I'm saved by my own monster, the man who enslaves my soul... -
![Mine to Love by Kennedy L. Mitchell]()
Mine to Love by Kennedy L. Mitchell
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen a decade-old one-night stand converges with a current high-profile case, can the three of them work through their differences to stop her from being the serial killer’s next victim? Running from a secret past and now a deranged killer, Remington Dotson and her nine-year-old son need protection to survive...Categorized as:
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Reaper by Rachel Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey call me the reaper. Saying I have no soul. A heart that’s charred black. I tell them it’s true,. because it is. I’ve been hiding in the shadows. Stealing secrets, destroying the lives of those who deserve it. But there’s one story to be told before this book closes. My story. Don’t be fooled, it’s not a fairytale. I’m no prince. And I certainly don’t want a princess...Categorized as:
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![Trusting Skulls by L.M. Terry]()
Trusting Skulls by L.M. Terry
Lexie. I’ve been alone most of my life. I guess that’s why it started. The drinking … the men. They filled a lonely void, but lately the hit of dopamine they provide fizzles before it begins. I’m caught in a loop. It’s a repetitive cycle I can’t escape. No one noticed I’ve been drowning in it. Until Ash Taylor came to town. He extended his hand to me, but I’ve been reluctant to grab hold...Categorized as:
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![Deep by Susan Fanetti]()
Deep by Susan Fanetti
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNick Pagano is a leader in the Pagano Brothers organization. As their head enforcer, it has been his responsibility to mete out justice, to seek retaliation, to uncover the secrets of Pagano enemies by any means necessary, and to sink deep the evidence of those means. It is work that requires keen vision and perfect control. It is work at which Nick excels. It is work that has made him dark... -
![Girl Like Me by Jaye Pratt]()
Girl Like Me by Jaye Pratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 14 ratings***RELEASE DATE WILL MOVE FORWARD***. Sent back to live with my family, I'm thrown back into my old life without my memories. I have to navigate my way through this place as Bristol, a girl I don't like. Even if she was me, she isn't anymore. All I want to do is remember what happened to me so that I can go back to my guys. Sounds easy. .. right? Wrong...Categorized as:
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![Return of the Bad Girl by Codi Gary]()
Return of the Bad Girl by Codi Gary
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBad girls don't forgive. Bad girls don't forget. Bad girls don't fall in love. Caroline Willis may be known for causing trouble, but she is NOT about to become homeless. So when she learns that her perfect apartment has been double-booked—to a dangerously hot bad boy—Caroline's bad-girl reputation comes out in full force... -
![Buried Deception by Amanda McKinney]()
Buried Deception by Amanda McKinney
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the pulse-racing first installment of the On the Edge series, a criminal psychologist teams up with a former marine on a deadly wildland mission. Not even their hearts can stay out of harm’s way. In the swamps of East Texas, alligators aren’t the only danger lurking in the shadows...Categorized as:
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![If You Know Her by Shiloh Walker]()
If You Know Her by Shiloh Walker
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA SHADOW IN THE WINDOW. Nia Hollister doesn’t scare easily. She’s returned to Ash, Kentucky, with a vengeance—and with a mission: find the killer who brutally ended her cousin’s life. What she didn’t count on was trembling with desire every time she sees Law Reilly. If any man can help her escape the nightmares for a while, it’s him...Categorized as:
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![Ominous: Book I by K.V. Rose]()
Ominous: Book I by K.V. Rose
What is the true cost of obsession? The consequences of lust driven bone-deep? Eli and Eden are about to find out. After a quiet meeting in their private school’s library, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the hidden darkness in one another. Surrounded by a strange disappearance, skeptical friendships, and conflicting dreams born out of nightmares, together,. they. fall... -
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![Chained to the Devil's Son by Shea Swain]()
Chained to the Devil's Son by Shea Swain
It was supposed to be the start of a new chapter in their lives. What it turned out to be was a life worse than death. When Evelyn Jones’ family made a wrong turn onto the property of one of the most racist men in the south, she discovered that Hell is definitely a place on earth. She had few memories of the loving life her parents’ provided...Categorized as:
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![Spin The Damn Bottle by Emm Darcy, May Sage]()
Spin The Damn Bottle by Emm Darcy, May Sage
Jason has put me through hell to prove I can withstand the flames. Now he wants me. Tough luck, a*hole. I survived the taunts, the humiliation, but after what happened to me last semester, I refuse to play his game any longer. Jason’s obsession with me isn’t healthy for either of us. He thinks he needs me. I know better. What he needs is therapy... -
![Mud Vein by Tarryn Fisher]()
Mud Vein by Tarryn Fisher
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsWhen reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked in a house in the middle of the snow, Senna is left to decode the clues to find out why she was taken. If she wants her freedom, she has to take a close look at her past. But, her past has a heartbeat. .. and her kidnapper is nowhere to be found... -
![Love Me by W. Winters, Amelia Wilde]()
Love Me by W. Winters, Amelia Wilde
From USA Today best-selling authors W Winters and Amelia Wilde comes a sinful romance with a touch of dark and angst that will keep you gripping the edge of your seat … and begging for more. He was mine. My protector, my lover. My second start at life. The man who promised me there was more than this. He gave me hope. Until my world fell apart again. It was bound to happen... -
![Damaged and the Bulldog by Bijou Hunter]()
Damaged and the Bulldog by Bijou Hunter
Dylan Campbell took a bullet to save the girl of his dreams. This fateful day changed everything. Now Dylan struggles to claim Winnie as his own while making his bones with the Reapers MC. Winona Todds was broken by life. Hiding from the world, she remains consumed with fear until her heart craves Dylan. She´ll need to face her past to build a future with the man with the bulldog tattoo. -
![Silver Creek High: A High School Bully Romance Complete Box Set by Belladona Cunning]()
Silver Creek High: A High School Bully Romance Complete Box Set by Belladona Cunning
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings(#1 Amazon Bestselling Series in Teen & Young Adult Bullying Fiction. *WITH NEVER BEFORE SEEN BONUS EPILOGUE*). “You. Are. Cut. Off. ”. He left me ripped apart and stripped of my last shred of innocence. He disappeared without a trace, two years ago, with no rhyme or reason. The same guy that swore to protect me, but instead fed me to the wolves of Silver Creek High. Now, he’s back...Categorized as:
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![Vital Sign by J.L. Mac]()
Vital Sign by J.L. Mac
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsI used to have a great life. My little world was bright. I had no complaints. My perfectly simple life made the fall from grace that much more devastating. I plummeted from the heavenly little bubble that I shared with Jake. I fell fast and hard straight into the fiery pits of hell. The knowledge of how things used to be is a bittersweet torture that refuses me even one moment of respite...Categorized as:
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![Believe Like a Child by Paige Dearth]()
Believe Like a Child by Paige Dearth
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsABOUT THE NOVEL:. Alessa is just seven years old when her uncle rapes her for the first time. As the years pass, his sexual appetite becomes more voracious and his perversion more twisted, until the abuse has become almost a daily ritual, with the unspoken involvement of the girl's mother... -
![Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes]()
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsWhen young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon discovers that Lee's dazzling blue eyes and blond good looks hide a dark, violent nature... -
![Catch Me by Claire Contreras]()
Catch Me by Claire Contreras
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsNovember 17, 2013. .. In the past, I've always been given everything I've wanted, but nothing that I truly needed. I've experienced a lot of things in my twenty-five years, everything except the one thing I want. It's the one thing that can’t be bought. It can't even be taken, it has to be given. And nobody has ever given it to me, not really anyway. Not until him... -
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![A Life Less Broken by Margaret McHeyzer]()
A Life Less Broken by Margaret McHeyzer
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOn a day like any other, Allyn Sommers went off to work, not knowing that her life was about to be irrevocably and horrifically altered. Three years later, Allyn is still a prisoner in her own home held captive by harrowing fear. Broken and damaged, Allyn seeks help from someone that fate brought her. Dr. Dominic Shriver is a psychiatrist who’s drawn to difficult cases... -
![Drowning Instinct by Ilsa J. Bick]()
Drowning Instinct by Ilsa J. Bick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThere are stories where the girl gets her prince, and they live happily ever after. (This is not one of those stories. ). Jenna Lord’s first sixteen years were not exactly a fairytale. Her father is a controlling psycho and her mother is a drunk. She used to count on her older brother—until he shipped off to Afghanistan. And then, of course, there was the time she almost died in a fire...Categorized as:
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![Reapers and Roses (Grove High School Book One) by A.R. Breck]()
Reapers and Roses (Grove High School Book One) by A.R. Breck
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRose. When my Mom told me we were moving to the Grove, I thought it was a joke. Our family, one of the wealthiest in Woodbury, moving to a dump like the Grove? Well, I guess that's what happens when you lose everything. Now we're shoved into the house the size of a shoebox and I can literally feel the darkness seeping in around me... -
![Make Me by LP Lovell]()
Make Me by LP Lovell
0. 5 in The Kiss of Death Series. Prequel novella to Kill Me. At thirteen years old I was sold, doomed to become a sex slave. Nicholai Ivanov, boss of the Russian Bratva, gave me the ultimate gift. He saved me from a fate worse than death. He promised to make me strong, because only the strong survive, and the weak die, forgotten and inconsequential... -
![Behind the Mask by Carolyn Crane]()
Behind the Mask by Carolyn Crane
TO SAVE HER TWIN SISTER SHE MUST SWITCH PLACES WITH HER. .. When her long lost sister--a prostitute--is won in a card game by a brutal drug cartel, Zelda knows what she has to do: take her place. Save her. Focus on infiltrating the shadowy group on behalf of the Associates, and try not to think about why she left the spying game years ago...Categorized as:
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![Twisted Love by Maya Alden]()
Twisted Love by Maya Alden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer Past Has Returned with a Vengeance. Sizzling attraction ignites when sharp-witted city lawyer Carolina Vega crosses paths with the brooding and magnetic Aurelio Santos in a Downtown L. A. bar. Their chemistry is instant and combustible, plunging them into a steamy tryst that burns into the break of dawn...Categorized as:
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![GRINGA - In the Clutches of a Ruthless Drug-Lord by Eve Rabi]()
GRINGA - In the Clutches of a Ruthless Drug-Lord by Eve Rabi
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI was twenty-one, a sassy university student who took crap from no one. While holidaying in Mexico, I was accosted by The Devil of Mexico called Diablo and shot, because the motherfucker mistook me for a spy... -
![Take Care, Sara by Lindy Zart]()
Take Care, Sara by Lindy Zart
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsYou breathe in, you breathe out, and everything you know is gone. Sara Walker knows firsthand what it feels like to have your reality ripped away, scrambled, and shoved back at you in an undone puzzle where pieces are missing and nothing fits. She's lost so much and is struggling to live and to find the strength to forgive herself for being human...Categorized as:
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![Lost by Carrie Aarons]()
Lost by Carrie Aarons
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWe knew each other a lifetime ago. And then. .. We lost childhoods. We lost opportunities. We lost love. Fate is giving us another chance. But a chance at what? Because even though we’ve been brought back to each other under the worst of circumstances…. We are still. So. Damn. Lost.Categorized as:
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![Wed Locked- by Era Mable]()
Wed Locked- by Era Mable
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGear up yourself to embark on this journey of passion, love, and drama. Wed locked - A passionate arranged marriage romance. BLURB. Locked together forever,. Do they have a chance at true love? Mira Kapoor. She just wanted a normal life, but she had to be born as the daughter of a business magnate in the most influential family... -
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![Miss Me Not by Tiffany King]()
Miss Me Not by Tiffany King
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsMiss Me Not is a beautiful story of self-discovery, forgiveness, caring, and love. Madison Hanson's past demons have given her a shadow of an existence with little hope. With the sudden tragic death of a fellow student, Madison questions her own life choices, and is now forced to evaluate everything she thought she believed in...Categorized as:
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![Destructive by Jessica Prince]()
Destructive by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMen cause nothing but pain. I live my life by these five words. For me, they have always proven to be true. Men have only brought hurt and suffering my entire life, leaving nothing but devastation in their wake. I fear them. I hate them. Until him. Gabriel forced his way into my life, ripping down the walls I’ve built around myself. He wants me, and he’ll stop at nothing to have me... -
![The Lies We Tell: A Standalone Forbidden Romance by Kathy Lockheart]()
The Lies We Tell: A Standalone Forbidden Romance by Kathy Lockheart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDive into love's dark side in this thrilling collection of two stand-alone romances, where secrets, deception, and heart-stopping twists will keep you glued to the pages. The Lies We Tell includes two full-length, tension-filled romances in the Secrets and the City series: Deadly Illusion and Fatal Cure:. from DEADLY ILLUSION:...Categorized as:
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![Beautiful Revenge by Cassie Hargrove]()
Beautiful Revenge by Cassie Hargrove
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI became the monster I had to in order to survive…. My history isn’t filled with love and sunshine. I grew up with a family that did the opposite of what they should have and I had to fight to survive. When the time came to battle my demons, I burned them to the ground until there was nothing left to fight...Categorized as:
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![Fallon: "The Madman" by Adriana Brinne]()
Fallon: "The Madman" by Adriana Brinne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFALLON. How do you walk through life with half a heart? With a bloody and busted organ that has been failing you from the start? I knew heartbreak before love. Immense sadness before joy. Valentino Nicolasi helped me fly and soar above the clouds before ripping the wings off my back...Categorized as:
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![Be My December by Rachel Brookes]()
Be My December by Rachel Brookes
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsI knew the exact moment I’d become a ‘yes’ girl. December 16th, a cold winter’s night, four years ago. The night my innocence was stolen, the night I made the mistake of saying no—a mistake I’d never make again. The dream of a ‘happily ever after' was now a locked away myth...
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