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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. This book adopts a similar approach, intertwining the story of two children. What is more, innocence and experience, represented in the lives of chevaliers characters and what happens to some of them, form the overarching theme of burning bright. From the author of the international bestseller girl with a pearl earring and at the edge of the orchard, comes a stirri.
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