Bloodline
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Book One · The Garnet Shield

The mountains keep their dead close.

Bear attack. That’s what they said over the phone. Judah Sands came home expecting a tragedy he could bury. His father had not died with the rest of the expedition. He had not come home either.

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Bloodline · Book One · Filed 2026
Spirits of the SmokiesA serial by Mason Rok

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The Voices at Lover’s Leap

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