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The Bargainer, Book 1

by Laura Thalassa

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appears in Fantasy Romance, Romance, and Fantasy.

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you n...

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appears in Fantasy Romance, Romance, and Fantasy.

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