Starting Over Ser. Starting over: Bitter Luck by JayWood Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5335-1969-6, ISBN: 1-5335-1969-2
"When Alaric is given the order to leave the country, he returns to the city of his youth, Verge, where he left everyone behind some four years ago. Set in a fantastical world on the cusp of modernization, old prejudges die hard even when out-paced by the technological advances made possible by Glow, a newly refined magic. What follows are the first steps on the road to discovering he's not the only one keeping secrets. Reunited with his ..."
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