Fractured Promises - Seven Twists of Love Fear and the Games We Cannot Escape

M.D. Thorn

Sinopse

Every vow, every game, every secret comes with a cost. This collection brings together seven stories where the lines between devotion, deception, and destiny blur—each pushing its characters to the edge of what they can endure.
 
A bride discovers that the man she thought she married may be hiding a darker truth than love can cover. A craftsman’s dolls whisper of debts unpaid, where each creation carries the memory of a soul unwilling to rest. A paradise crafted in circuits begins to tremble under the weight of its own fail-safe, paradise on the brink of collapse.
 
In the underworld of finance and betrayal, three keys unlock not fortune but destruction, when loyalty collides with greed. Beyond the stars, a lonely outpost refuses to release its crew, wrapping them in a silence that cuts deeper than space itself. In the ring, a fighter’s final round ends not with glory but with a truth too dangerous to strike. And on the icy edge of perfection, a young prodigy discovers that medals gleam brightest when they are cursed with secrets no one dares to confess.
 
Romance and suspicion, horror and betrayal, ambition and sacrifice—all collide in tales where nothing is certain, and everything is at stake.
 
When the vows break, the machines glitch, and the truth demands a price—who will stand, and who will fall?

Disponível desde: 18/08/2025.

Comprimento de impressão: 435 páginas.

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