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The Golden Tower
Fiona Patton
In Anavatan, the city of the Silver Lake, the Gods manifest on an all-too-regular basis, and it?s hard to survive if you?re not pledged to one of the deities. Now the city is poised at a crucial turning point as the three children of the prophecy, two grown to manhood and one on the brink of having to decide his future, prepare for a confrontation that will shake the Gods themselves? In Anavatan, the city of the Silver Lake, the Gods manifest on an all-too- regular basis, and it?s hard to survive if you?re not pledged to one of the deities. Now the city is poised at a crucial turning point as the three children of the prophecy, two grown to manhood and one on the brink of having to decide his future, prepare for a confrontation that will shake the Gods themselves?
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