Immortal Muse

✍ Scribed by Leigh, Stephen

• Book ID: 107684317
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698140066

✦ Synopsis

An immortal Muse whose very survival depends on the creativity she nurtures within her lovers...
Another immortal who feeds not on artistry but on pain and torment...
A chase through time, with two people bound together in enmity and fury...
Magic and science melded together into one, and an array of the famous and infamous, caught up unawares in an ages-long battle...

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