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Merlin's Keep
Madeleine Brent
Raised in Tibet by a British soldier, a young woman returns to England where prophecy and a mysterious man await.
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A young English woman, raised in a remote Tibetan village by an A.W.O.L. British soldier, returns to England, where a mysterious man begins to fulfill the discomfitting prophecy of the High Lama of her village
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