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Sometimes the most shattered souls make the fiercest protectors.When a virus decimates civilization, those remaining must survive in an unrecognizable world.Elle awakes from her fever forever changed. Her touch is lethal and power courses through her veins like liquid fire. With four orphaned children depending on her, Elle is terrified…

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1 author picked The Darkest Winter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book one of The Savage North Chronicles, is a great read.

I enjoy Lindsey Pogue’s books because she has a talent for creating flawed, sympathetic characters whose personal challenges compound the disastrous state of the world.

This book also incorporates a slightly supernatural element I found refreshing. I felt the frigid temperatures and life-threatening weather they faced, the moral dilemmas, and the struggle to adapt to a radically altered reality.

Surprising plot twists and a colorful and memorable cast of characters will suck you right there with them, wondering how you’d survive and which surprising psychic ability you’d end…

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The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

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