Janeal's True Identity

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Janeal is the daughter of a traveling gypsy and a gaje, an outsider. Accepted among neither of them, she dreams of running away to the outside world. After meeting a raven-haired man, who claims to be her father’s ‘friend’, Janeal learns something that puts her whole family in danger. When her family is attacked because she did not do what was asked of her, something happens. A fire where she had to make a dire choice, save herself and live or save her friend and potentially die. She makes her choice and ends up living the life she wants. Both of them. Many years after the incident, Janeal’s tormenter is finally captured and put in a hospital. While hiding her true identity from the rest of the world, she soon comes to find that there were

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