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Dec162019

Origin Story Four

Origin Story Four

The fourth origin story in the Balance Bringer Chronicles to be shared. This is Zarah's story.

Release date TBD.

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Author: Debra Kristi
Series: The Balance Bringer Origins, Book 5
Genres: dark fantasy, fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
Tags: coming of age, fantasy, Recommended Books, Romance, young adult
The Mystic Maker
The First Balance Bringer
The Would Be Queen
Origin Story Three

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Writing things and herding cats ๐Ÿ“š + ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›
YA Fantasy / Adult Fantasy Romance
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๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐€๐‘๐‚ ๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐€๐‘๐‚ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ!
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๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ’š

๐—ง๐˜„๐—ผ ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€. ๐—” ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜€. ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€.

Raven Gunn blamed herself and the cheat she used on her last job for her teamโ€™s assignment to the cursed reaping. Her father even packed the tool responsible for the cheat in her travel bag, silently suggesting the need, while reminding her not to trust her designated coreaper, Chace Badden. A hundred years of accumulated reapings, a prohibited reaper-tool, her born rival tasked as her partnerโ€ฆ What could go wrong? She definitely wouldnโ€™t allow Chaceโ€™s good looks to compromise her focus. Not. One. Bit.

Chace Badden suspected family connections were to blame for his teamโ€™s assignment, and he trusted nothing about the current reaping task. Especially not the Fae bastard showering Raven with unnecessary attention. That pr*ck needed to go. Raven was his coreaper and the pretty boy held no claim. Of course, the same could be said for Chace given Raven was his coreaper and his rival, professionalism and distance needed to remain steady between them.

But as more complications arise and old ones intensify, will Chace and Ravenโ€™s rivalry cloud emotions, hinder task success, and pave the road for, not only failure but, something far more concerning than mortal danger? Because the overwhelming number of unreaped souls is turning out to be the least of their worries.

๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด. 

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Two reapers raised to be at odds. Now they are fo Two reapers raised to be at odds. 
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Two rival reapers forced to work together on a dan Two rival reapers forced to work together on a dangerous job, against improbable odds, and with no clear hope for escape. 

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