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To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

Sarah A. Parker · Crystal Bloom, book 1

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A young woman, rescued as an infant from a massacre that killed everyone else around her, lives as the ward of a powerful High Master. Confined to the grounds of a castle where she believes danger lurks beyond an invisible boundary she never crosses, she pays a daily cost for her safety: bleeding into a goblet. She also harbors an unreturned longing for her enigmatic guardian. When beasts overrun the land and threaten her sheltered life, long-hidden truths about her past and herself begin to surface. This dark reimagining of the Rapunzel tale opens a fantasy series.

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