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Five Brand New Kindle Freebies! Pandora Poikilos’ EXCUSE ME, MY BRAINS HAVE STEPPED OUT, Joseph Storm’s THE GOVERNMENT: DARK DAYS, Timothy Hallinan’s THE BONE POLISHER, Kevin J. Anderson’s TAU CETI and Drew Stevenson’s A DAY TRADER’S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK

With hundreds of new books turning up free each day now in the Kindle Store, it can be tough to hone in on books that you will actually want to read. And most of the new free books will be free for just a day or two at a time, so we are working hard to make sure that you do not miss the ones you want!

Here are a few books that have just gone free by authors who have already proven to be favorites with Kindle Nation readers. Please grab them now if they look interesting to you, because they probably won’t stay free for long!

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3.6 stars – 31 Reviews
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Anya Michaels is having the time of her life. She has the man of her dreams by her side. She has graduated at the top of her class. She has the job others were lining up for. Between late night drinks at her favourite bar and fancy dinners at the most expensive restaurants, she has a string of adoring friends. Everything changes when she hears the dreaded words, “You are sick.”

Being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder, her world starts to fall apart, one piece at a time. Now dumped, her four year relationship is nothing but a memory filled with pictures, thoughts and a very broken heart. Her job becomes an even further challenge as she tries to hide her condition. Her friends suddenly have more important things to do, what is a party without a party girl? Perfect could not crumble any faster.

Soon, caught between situations, people and pieces of life that she never dreamed of planning for herself, Anya begins to wonder if her brain condition is all that bad. As she absorbs the changes in her life and realization sets in, she begins to wonder if she is the only one saying: Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out.

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The Government: Dark Days

by Joseph Storm

4.3 stars – 10 Reviews
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In this futuristic tale of American fate, the presidential election of 2020 will change the country forever. Congressman Joe Striker has been abducted, his family murdered, and every U.S. lawmaker executed. Believed dead, Striker is tossed into a mass grave with his colleagues, but his assassins have made a critical error. Joe is not dead, crawling from the depths of earth to avenge his family’s honor. Upon arrival of his ransacked home, Striker discovers that a vital piece of unread, undiscovered mail holds the answers to the senseless, horrific crimes. An administration mole has secretly sent him information, which implicates the people and plans of a newly elected “Government Party.” This unknown ideology fools the American public with a smile, while ruling violently with a fist of iron.

Discovering that this threat still lives, the hunt begins to destroy the roadblock to domination. As the country falls around him, Joe must flee the enemies of freedom, along with his own demons. However, before he can accomplish his goals, Joe Striker must eventually face them both. The fate of America rests in Striker’s hands, and the fate of the world will soon follow.

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5.0 stars – 2 Reviews
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2011 Edgar and Macavity nominee Timothy Hallinan’s sixth and final novel featuring erudite Los Angeles private eye Simeon Grist takes place in the West Hollywood of 1995, where the community is shaken bu the brutal killing of an older man who was widely loved for his generosity and kindness. In a time when the police were largely indifferent to crimes against gay people, Simeon is hired to catch the murderer—and finds himself up against the most dangerous adversary of his career, a man who kills his victims one once, but twice: once physically and once in spirit. The story’s climax takes place at a memorable Halloween-themed wake, but there’s a big plot twist yet to come.

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Tau Ceti (The Stellar Guild)

by Kevin J. Anderson, Steven Savile

4.0 stars – 1 Reviews
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Tau Ceti is the first book in the new, critically acclaimed, Stellar Guild Series. Other authors writing works for the series are:

Mercedes Lackey (Reboots, published December, 2011)
Robert Silverberg (Blue Shift, expected Fall, 2012)
Harry Turtledove (All Aboard, expected Fall 2012)
Larry Niven, Mike Resnick and Eric Flint (unnamed projects, late 2012, early 2013).

Kevin J. Anderson has penned over a hundred novels, 48 of which have become bestsellers; he has more than 23 million copies of his works in print. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Saga of Seven Suns series and has teamed with Brian Herbert (son of Frank Herbert) to write 13 books set in the Dune universe.

Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally approaching Sarbras, the planet circling Tau Ceti they hope to make humanity’s new home.

But Earth has recovered from its near-death experience and is now under the control of a ruthless dictator whose sights are set on Tau Ceti as well. President Jurudu knows how to get what he wants—and he wants Sarbras.

With Sequel Novelette by Steven Savile.

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Trading in the stock market is not easy. It demands a major investment of hard work, focused intelligence, and capital. There is also, quite often, a significant “tuition” charge for your training period, before you begin making money: you should not be surprised to lose $50,000 or $100,000 during this training period, depending on what you are putting on the table. This little book may not make you a single dime, but it should help you to keep your head clear and your focus keen — and focus and clarity are a trader’s best friends.
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It’s an idyllic day on Oahu until Bess Blinke interrupts a bizarre robbery that ends in homicide. In the following days, she discovers terrible secrets tied to the crime, and her world unravels. When the killer realizes the depth of what she knows and comes after her, she runs, hides, and plots to reveal the truth and expose the brutal force behind several murders.

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A friend handed me this book and told me, READ it, you’ll love it. Lies, revenge, and murder – not my usual fare. However, I started it and I was hooked immediately. The story draws you in from the first page. You smell it, you feel it, and live it.  –  Vicki McClellan

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Victoria Landis is a writer and an artist who lives in South Florida. She has lived in six states, including twelve years in Hawaii.

Find background stories about her characters, maps of book locations, and even a short glossary of Hawaiian words on her writing website – www.victorialandis.com.

She is a nine-year member of Mystery Writers of America, and writes fiction in several genres. Fun fact: In 2004, Victoria wrote Chapter Nineteen in one of the silliest (and most hilarious) progressive novellas ever produced – Naked Came the Flamingo. Edited by Joan Mickelson and the late, great Barbara Parker, accomplished writers Elaine Viets, Randy Rawls, and the PJ Parrish team contributed chapters, along with many others.

Having had a decidedly unconventional life, she finds sharing lessons learned in her non-fiction to be very satisfying.

She also writes a monthly humor column for The Parklander magazine. Her writing website is www.victorialandis.com.

In addition, she designs book covers – including her own. To see her artwork, please go to her website – www.landisdesignresource.com -More examples are featured on her blog there.

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A Cinderella who spends her nights as a wolf. A prince with a taste for blood.

Seventeen year old Cydney struggles against her werewolf nature, trying to keep everyone around her safe. No way will she risk exposing the beast at the prince’s ball, no matter how her two cousins try to persuade her. Even as she attempts to get on with her life, Cydney can’t forget the boy she loved three summers ago — or what she did to him after losing control.

Turned into a vampire to save his life, the prince refuses to live up to his royal duties. He just wants to find the girl he loved and lost...the werewolf girl who bit him. But his father, the king, commands him to attend a ball where he must choose a wife. Can he find his Cinderella before he's forced to marry another? He doesn’t even have her real name, much less a glass slipper.
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That Veronica Blade lives in Southern California with her husband and children. By day she runs the family business, but each night she slips away to spin her tales. She writes stories about young adults to relive her own childhood and to live vicariously through her characters. Except her heroes and heroines lead far more interesting lives -- and they are always way hotter. That's the official bio. The unofficial bio is that I, Veronica Blade, am an addict. I love all things vampires and witches and werewolves -- the stranger, the better! My favorite shows are The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. And, okay, I admit it, I'm still a huge Buffy fan. Currently, I have one full length novel available and two novellas. Everything I write is sweet romance and usually I throw in some witches, vamps or werewolves -- sometimes all of the above (but always light on the paranormal, heavy on the romance).
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A devastating storm.A destructive pathogen.No known cure.Only the Heirs of Eden have the answer.As the Ebora virus takes hold, Archie, Daisy and Isabella - the Heirs of Eden - find themselves trapped in a magical cave with instructions to save humankind.Only they can deliver what the walls show...
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KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Sunday, March 11: 211 BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours added to Our 2,700+ FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Veronica Blade’s A BITE’S TALE: A FURRY FABLE (Today’s Sponsor – $1.99 or FREE via Kindle Lending Library)

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Sunday, March 11 – Save 92% on New York Marathon Winner Meb Keflezighi’s Run to Overcome, plus … Marta Szemik’s TWO HALVES (Today’s Sponsor)

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Twenty-one-year-old Sarah is a child of a human mother and a vampire father and has suppressed her dark side with serums. The only memory of her mother is when Sarah killed her, soon after birth. Of her father, nothing—just a hatred for his vampire traits that made her kill her own mother.

When a disturbing nightmare foretelling her bleak future stirs the superhuman traits, underworld creatures are beaconed. On the run with William, a man she knows from her dreams, Sarah tries to learn what’s been hidden from her, for a good reason. Had she known her destiny, she may have continued with the serums that kept her hidden.

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The Beginning of the End for eBook Price-Fixing? Justice Department Nears Antitrust Suit Against Apple and Five of Big Six Publishers over “Agency Model” Collusion

By Steve Windwalker

For over two years now, the citizens of Kindle Nation have had to put up with a joke that isn’t funny: the so-called “agency model” ebook pricing structure through which Apple and five of the Big Six book publishers have colluded to mandate artificially high prices for ebook titles under their control. We knew it was wrong, we knew it was anti-consumer, and we knew it was illegal.

And now, finally, it was widely reported this week that the Justice Department has advised Apple and the five publishers that it intends to sue them for colluding to raise ebook prices.

It’s about time.

The agency model price-fixing scheme has cost millions of Kindle owners millions of dollars over the past two years — money that we would not have spent on ebooks if Apple and the publishers had not entered into a clear conspiracy that the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs described in detail to biographer Walter Isaacson.

Until early 2010, most publishers sold print and electronic books to retailers at a wholesale price that ranged from 40 to 60 percent of the cover or “suggested list price.” Retailers were then free to set any price they wanted based on their own business strategies, and frequently set “loss leader” prices in order to lure customers. When Amazon launched the Kindle in late 2007 it sought to promote ebooks and ereaders in general, and the Kindle Store in particular, by adopting a very popular policy of setting $9.99 as a maximum price for almost all new releases and bestsellers in the Kindle Store.

Apple had not previously been involved in bookselling (other than audiobooks), and was slow initially to see Amazon’s Kindle business as competition. Early in 2008 Jobs said that the “whole concept” of the Kindle was “flawed from the top because nobody reads any more.” But by early 2010 when Apple was preparing to launch the first iPad, Jobs had done a dramatic about-face. As he introduced Apple’s iBooks store at the iPad launch announcement he said, “Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle. We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”

Plagued by high prices, poor selection, and clunky search-and-browse infrastructure, the iBooks store has been a flop over the past two years and is widely seen as having something less than 15 percent of the retail ebook market despite the huge success of its hardware platform with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. But for a market-share failure, iBooks nonetheless stands alongside Kindle as the most significant, game-changing developments that have been seen in the book business in the past decade.

The significance of the Kindle, of course, is both that it has brought millions of readers into the ebook revolution with lower prices, wide selection and nearly instantaneous delivery and that it has brought radical disintermediation to the publishing business by removing barriers to publication, offering greater royalties to many authors, and raising questions about the role of traditional publishers, agents, distributors, and chain bookstores in an ebook future.

The significance of iBooks and Apple’s role, on the other hand, is that Apple played a conspiratorial “white knight” role that enabled a handful of big publishers — who were demonstrably panicked about the changes that ebooks would bring to their business — to insist on an entirely new pricing structure that would slow the growth of ebooks and counter Amazon’s market power. Lest there be any confusion about how this all happened, Jobs himself made the price-fixing scheme abundantly clear in this passage from Walter Isaacson’s bestselling 2011 biography Steve Jobs:

“We told the publishers, ‘We’ll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway,” Jobs told his biographer. “They went to Amazon and said, ‘You’re going to sign an agency contract or we’re not going to give you the books.'”

Beginning on April Fool’s Day 2010, two days before the iPad became available, thousands of agency-model publishers’ ebooks that had previously been priced at $9.99 and below on Kindle were increased in price to levels ranging mostly from $11.99 to $14.99.

Amazon’s position has always been that it would do everything it could to offer the lowest possible prices on Kindle books, but its only alternative to allowing agency-model conspirators to set their own retail prices was to keep books by the world’s largest publishers out of the Kindle Store altogether. That would not do.

Instead, Amazon has moved aggressively to reward non-conspirator authors and publishers with higher royalties, other forms of compensation, and prominent placement on the Kindle website, and the result has been that those authors’ and publishers’ books have gradually increased in their overall presence in the Kindle Store as well as their placement on the various Kindle bestseller lists.

So the agency-model publishers are losing out in four ways:
  • their per-unit revenue is lower in many cases than the wholesale proceeds that they were previously being paid by Amazon;
  • they are seen negatively by a growing share of readers as a direct result of their ebook pricing;
  • their market share is declining steadily; and
  • they are now facing the considerable expense associated with being corporate defendants in a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department.

Some kind of lawyers those publishers, and Apple, must have.

Federal lawsuits usually move very, very slowly, but stay tuned. This week’s reports included widespread speculation that some of the publishers are actively pursuing out-of-court settlement.

Kindle Nation Daily Digest – March 10, 2012 – Brief Tips, Freebies and Bargain Updates

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal – EXPIRES AT MIDNIGHT Saturday, March 10 – Save 86% on Monica Wood’s nine linked fictional stories revealing human resilience, Ernie’s Ark, plus … Mitchell Gibson’s NINE INSIGHTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY LIFE (Today’s Sponsor) http://bit.ly/wiSPEK
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With hundreds of new books turning up free each day now in the Kindle Store, it can be tough to hone in on books that you will actually want to read. And most of the new free books will be free for just a day or two at a time, so we are working hard to make sure that you do not miss the ones you want!

Here are a few books that have just gone free by authors who have already proven to be favorites with Kindle Nation readers. Please grab them now if they look interesting to you, because they probably won’t stay free for long!

Important Note: This post is dated Saturday, March 10, 2012, and the titles mentioned here may remain free only until midnight PST tonight.

Please note: References to prices on this website refer to prices on the main Amazon.com website for US customers. Prices will vary for readers located outside the US, and even for US customers, prices may change at any time. Always check the price on Amazon before making a purchase.

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The Marinara Murders

by Erik Hanberg

4.7 stars – 6 Reviews
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A grown man living in his mother’s basement, disgraced detective Arthur Beautyman knows his life has fallen off a cliff.

But that doesn’t mean he has to be happy about his mother’s solution to his woes: volunteering him to solve a case for her favorite bridge partner. Oh, and to make matters worse, she wants to be his partner on the case as well …

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The Princess and the Curse

by Shirley Martin

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Nolan Tremaine is a fisherman, a man who likes to brag about things he’s never done and places he’s never seen. When a tavern stranger dares him to sail to the faraway land of Connachta and bring back the Blessed Bell of Bellarmine, he knows he is trapped. He can’t refuse the challenge. But where is Connachta, and where can he find the Blessed Bell of Bellarmine?

After sailing across the world, he comes to the land of Connachta. There he finds that the Bell of Bellarmine is really a belle, Princess Leslie.

The princess is a most unhappy woman. She must marry a man she loathes, an evil prince who has put a curse on the land, that all the women will remain barren. Only by her marriage to him will he lift the curse. But who can save her from this terrible fate?

Nolan to the rescue! But can a humble fisherman and a princess find happiness together?

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The Government: Dark Days

by Joseph Storm

4.3 stars – 10 Reviews
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In this futuristic tale of American fate, the presidential election of 2020 will change the country forever. Congressman Joe Striker has been abducted, his family murdered, and every U.S. lawmaker executed. Believed dead, Striker is tossed into a mass grave with his colleagues, but his assassins have made a critical error. Joe is not dead, crawling from the depths of earth to avenge his family’s honor. Upon arrival of his ransacked home, Striker discovers that a vital piece of unread, undiscovered mail holds the answers to the senseless, horrific crimes. An administration mole has secretly sent him information, which implicates the people and plans of a newly elected “Government Party.” This unknown ideology fools the American public with a smile, while ruling violently with a fist of iron.

Discovering that this threat still lives, the hunt begins to destroy the roadblock to domination. As the country falls around him, Joe must flee the enemies of freedom, along with his own demons. However, before he can accomplish his goals, Joe Striker must eventually face them both. The fate of America rests in Striker’s hands, and the fate of the world will soon follow.

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3.6 stars – 31 Reviews
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Anya Michaels is having the time of her life. She has the man of her dreams by her side. She has graduated at the top of her class. She has the job others were lining up for. Between late night drinks at her favourite bar and fancy dinners at the most expensive restaurants, she has a string of adoring friends. Everything changes when she hears the dreaded words, “You are sick.”

Being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder, her world starts to fall apart, one piece at a time. Now dumped, her four year relationship is nothing but a memory filled with pictures, thoughts and a very broken heart. Her job becomes an even further challenge as she tries to hide her condition. Her friends suddenly have more important things to do, what is a party without a party girl? Perfect could not crumble any faster.

Soon, caught between situations, people and pieces of life that she never dreamed of planning for herself, Anya begins to wonder if her brain condition is all that bad. As she absorbs the changes in her life and realization sets in, she begins to wonder if she is the only one saying: Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out.

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MAGIC SWORDS, AN EVIL UNCLE, UNTAMED DRAGONS, EPIC BATTLES.

You swing a staff until you’re ready to swing a sword. Then you go on all kinds of adventures — fighting monsters, casting spells and saving damsels in distress. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work, but I didn’t believe a word of it.

EPIC FANTASY FOR DRAGON FANS OF ALL AGES

Two forms of power — natural and chemical – divide the world. Dragons, who keep the chemical power in check, have long retreated from human sight; few still believe in them. Inside a castle surrounded by Tuscan hills more and more threatened by chemical forces, sixteen-year-old Anders lives a sheltered life. But much as his parents try, Anders can’t avoid the forces that threaten…ONE VOLUME EDITION

All the epic fantasy adventures of Anders Tomason: SWORD BEARER and WIND RIDER, two full-length novels collected in one omnibus book for a combined lower price.

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The Ninth Step

by Barbara Taylor Sissel

4.6 stars – 18 Reviews
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Livie Saunders is fluent in the language of flowers; she taught the meanings to her fiancé, Cotton O’Dell, but then Cotton vanishes without explanation on their wedding day forcing Livie to learn the language of desolation. Heartbroken, she buries her wedding gown beneath a garden pond and resolves to move on, but there are nights when she slips . . . into a sequined red dress and a pair of stiletto heels, a stranger’s bed, a little anonymous oblivion that is not without consequence. Still, she recovers a semblance of ordinary life and imagines she is content. But then, six years later, Cotton returns and her carefully constructed world shatters. The old questions bite like flies. Questions that Cotton O’Dell prays he can answer. He prays that Livie, whom he has never stopped loving, will be moved to forgive him. But there is more than Livie to be concerned about. There is Cotton’s act of cowardice that caused him to become a fugitive in the first place . . . that crime he committed for which the legal clock is still ticking. That thing he did that will shock Livie to her core once she learns of it. Livie is desperate to trust Cotton, but then he goes missing again. Time telescopes, avenues of escape close, and as lives hang in the balance, choice dithers between mercy and revenge. And a decision that will take only a moment will carry the consequences of a lifetime.

THE NINTH STEP is a story of redemption, of being brought to your knees in the sober light of day to face a monstrous error and yet somehow finding the strength to stand up, to try and make it right. Even if that decision breaks your heart, endangers your freedom and ultimately threatens your life.

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Hunting for Sparrows

by Beatrice Gerard

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In the middle of the night, Thelma Hardy gets a 10 second call from her father: her mother’s dead. She must fly to Palm Beach. The company jet is waiting.
Thelma has little time for sorrow. The stock of Wise Woman Inc. is plummeting, and the eyes of the financial world are watching and waiting. Her father has appointed a male CEO, Steve, breaking with the firm’s tradition of female leadership and enraging the members of the board.
To make matters worse, Thelma’s best friend Lauren manages to miss the funeral, and her longtime friend Cindy decides this is a good time to confess her love for her.
Lauren, an MIT computer wizard, has in fact been there all along. Hours after her mother’s death, there is a mysterious hacking of the company’s firewall. The source is untraceable and the timing dangerous. The firm’s main rival is suspect, and Lauren has come to help identify the attacker.
As Thelma becomes more involved in the business, she finds hints that her father and Steve may be part of a scheme to rob her of her inheritance, and that her mother may not have died of natural causes. Steve realizes Thelma is onto more than he expected and has her followed.
When Thelma mistakenly kills and innocent man, jeopardizing the firms future, Steve decides to take care of the cover-up, and of Thelma as well: he sends her to oversee some factories in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, from where she is not meant to return. She tricks her way out of the trap and returns to Palm Beach, determined to discover the truth about her mother’s death and save her legacy.
With her wits, which many think she is losing, as her only guide, Thelma ventures into a maze of dark family lies and financial intrigue. As she searches for a way out, she will revisit her mother’s struggle for empowerment, transform her idle socialite toys into weapons, and take ownership of her life.

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