Natalie Grey
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Bellatrix (Frank Kurns Stories of the UnknownWorld, #3)
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Challenges (Frank Kurns Stories of the UnknownWorld, #4)
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Risk Be Damned (Trials and Tribulations, #1)
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Damned to Hell (Trials and Tribulations, #2)
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Vigilante (The Vigilante Chronicles, #1)
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8 editions
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2018
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Sentinel (The Vigilante Chronicles, #2)
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7 editions
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2018
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You Need a Bigger Sword (Metamorphosis Online, #1)
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5 editions
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2019
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Warden (The Vigilante Chronicles, #3)
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6 editions
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2018
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Paladin (The Vigilante Chronicles, #4)
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2018
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To Hell and Back (Trials and Tribulations, #3)
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“Now, I’m not sure how familiar you are with basic morality, but it is considered very, very immoral to stand by while a sociopath abducts families, tortures them, and forces them to kill one another.” “But—” one of the men spluttered. “It was just a job!” another one insisted. “Wrong answer.” Tabitha shook her head at them, and then considered. “Of course, there wasn’t actually a right one.”
― Trials and Tribulations
― Trials and Tribulations
“subsistence living was often the norm. One learned to expect lean times and to jump at work when it was offered, and so people were especially vulnerable to those who, pretending to be reasonable, preyed upon the natural instinct to provide for one’s family. And those people, she had told him, were brutal. They controlled through unpredictable violence and fear, and left one choice: obey and be richly rewarded, or disobey and be killed painfully. No matter how much they might, on some level, realize that they could be in the line of fire at any time, people kept their heads down out of instinct. They told themselves that everyone did whatever they needed to do to survive. They told themselves that they and their families had to be their first priority. Even”
― Challenges
― Challenges
“certainty is very seductive. Extremism, for instance, takes hold even when there has been no chemical conditioning like there is in this case. “What does that mean?” Barnabas asked wearily. “He means that to be certain of your worldview is something people desire,” Gar said unexpectedly. “The world is uncertain, and people want it to not be. They’ll subscribe to ridiculous beliefs just so they can feel more secure.” “Precisely,” Gil said with a nod to Gar. “The Luvendi is quite correct. What makes this belief even more damaging is that it used…well, torture, to render the victim vulnerable before feeding them the information about who to obey.” Barnabas shook his head. “Those worldviews fall apart when they’re tested,” he said. “Not always, but they do.”
― The Vigilante Chronicles Omnibus
― The Vigilante Chronicles Omnibus
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