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Counterfeit Braid
Werewolf romance, urban supernatural, enemies-to-lovers, fake-bond · English · Being written now
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Nadia Quispe-Halloran makes forged mate-bonds in a back-room lab on the floor of Tessarine, a city built inside a canyon where a registered bond decides who gets a home, a lease and a future. Wolves can smell every lie, but never her. When the Registry's most incorruptible auditor lands on her doorstep with a bond that was forged using her formula, she has to fake the one thing she swore never to make: a real one.
belonging as a rationed resourceforgery vs authenticity in lovechosen versus assigned bondsclass and altitudethe cost of being unreadablelies and the people who tell them kindly
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