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I Left My Husband for the Null Forest

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Jemina Ellengarde should have been living a fairytale. She was beautiful, noble, and married to the most powerful man in the empire—the cold and untouchable Duke Noctellis Ellengarde, the hero revered across the continent. People envied her. They whispered that the duke loved her so deeply he kept her hidden from society itself. The truth was far less romantic. After years of mistaking indifference for devotion, Jemina finally realizes something devastating: Her husband never truly loved her at all. She runs away into the most dangerous place in the empire: The Null Forest. But surviving the Null Forest is only the beginning. What starts as a desperate escape slowly becomes something far bigger than Jemina ever intended. A hidden lodge in the trees. A sanctuary for women with nowhere else to go. A growing family made up of lamias, monsters, mercenaries, emotionally troubled girls, and one increasingly overworked duchess who somehow became responsible for all of them. Now Jemina must learn how to survive deadly creatures, protect the people under her care, and manage the absolute chaos of life inside the Null Forest— All while her dangerously complicated husband slowly makes his way into the very forest she ran to escape.
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