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Read an extract from Charlotte B. Plumb’s Reap & Sow

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The opening chapter from Charlotte B. Plumb’s atmospheric romantasy debut, Reap & Sow

The penniless in Blackbridge have only two choices: sell your body or sell your soul. And thanks to Eda Shaw, business is booming.

Indentured to a capricious demon known as Mr Black, Eda and her brothers arrange illicit Pacts on his behalf, luring the city’s most desperate into trading years of their lives for their deepest desires.

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