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Starlight and Shadows
- A Sapphic Cozy Fantasy Romance
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's summary
A scholar’s dream. A pirate’s curse. Only one can be saved.
Illyria’s dream shop is becoming a nightmare. Abandoning her safe but stifling career teaching magic to the elite, the enterprising half-elf sets sail to open her own alchemy store. Illyria yearns to make her shop a bastion of magic for all, but she invokes the wrath of the local crime syndicate and awakens an ancient curse.
Briar knows all about curses. The pirate half-giant’s family has suffered under one for generations. She’s on the hunt for a Celestial Prism, a rare artifact powerful enough to lift her affliction. Yet the infuriating–and alluring–Illyria is after the same Prism, just as Briar’s time is running out.
Briar and Illyria form an uneasy alliance as sinister forces surround them both. But as Illlyria’s grand opening looms, will she save the store of her dreams, or the woman after her own heart?
Starlight and Shadows is the enchanting first standalone book in the Starlight Sanctum cozy fantasy LGBTQ romance series. If you like heartfelt adventures, new beginnings, and an engrossing F/F romance with a touch of heat, then you’ll love Vera Winters’s captivating adventure. Buy Starlight and Shadows to be enchanted today!
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- 05-24-24
Great characters
Love the story line! Overall great only downside was the narration!! Hope to see more from this author
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- 05-06-24
The AI voice
The AI voice killed the book for me. I was excited at first but my ADHD brain kept on zoning it out.
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