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Caera Thornton has released three novels under her author name C.E. Thornton, and records and performs music under the name Era Thorne. After growing up in Seattle and then San Antonio, Caera currently calls the DFW-Metroplex home, where she lives in a cozy hobbit hole with her cats.

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	Shadowchild 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 4 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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After weeks of grappling with all the online distributors, we have FINALLY got the entire trilogy up on all major retailers in all formats! All that remains is to upload Shenyeh to BookShare and to get Operation Audiobook back on track--soon! Please visit the Books tab for more information, and stay tuned for future updates regarding the trilogy as well as other projects I am planning. Read more of this blog post »

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