
Starlight and Shadows
A Sapphic Cozy Fantasy Romance
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Vera Winters

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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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AI written and narrated
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By: Vera Winters
Great characters
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Virtual Voice is killing me!
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At least it was discounted
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Lack of intonation
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Loved the book, HATED the narration
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wish they paid an actual narrator
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The story line was pretty good in general
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Good story, bad voice
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The AI voice
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depth of characters was great and plot was good but virtual voice took away imagination.
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