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A. J. Vrana is a Serbian-Canadian academic and writer from Toronto, Canada. She lives with her rescue cats, Moonstone and Peanut Butter, who nest in her window-side bookshelf and cast judgmental stares at nearby pigeons. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and her doctoral research examines the supernatural in Japanese and former Yugoslavian literature and its relationship to modern nation-building and historiography. A. J. Vrana's published works include the Indie Author Project-winning Chaos Cycle Duology: The Hollow Gods (2020) and The Echoed Realm (2021), the companion novel Wildblood (2024) from Parliament House Press, and the romantic short story collection, Stray Feathers: Extras from The Chaos Cycle (2022). Her short fic ...more

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	The Hollow Gods (The Chaos Cycle Duology, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 1,318 ratings — published 2020 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Echoed Realm (The Chaos Cycle Duology, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wildblood 4.15 avg rating — 333 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stray Feathers: Extras from The Chaos Cycle 4.70 avg rating — 43 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Fresh Hell by Katya de Becerra (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Narrelle M. Harris (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wayward: A Wildblood Compendium 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Crows Year Two by Alex Khlopenko (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Olivia Hofer (Editor), Clayton Snyder 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Once upon a time, when the earth was formless and empty, and darkness stretched over the surface of the deep, we plunged one another into the abyss, and the world has trembled ever since.”
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“Cut the seams of reality, and chaos is bound to spill out.”
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“Do you believe in fate?” Miya asked when the crickets got too loud, knocking around the inside of her skull. Kai’s brows slowly knotted together. “Don’t care—don’t really think about it,” he said gruffly. “Really?” She turned to him. “You never think about whether things were meant to happen? Or if it’s all just coincidence?” “Nope.” He shrugged. “Don’t see the point. Even if you knew, so what? Fate’s just a nice way of saying you’re a hamster on a wheel. Nothing you do matters. And if everything’s coincidence, that leaves you with about as much control as fate.” This”
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