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    Mephisto Part 1
    Mephisto Part 1
    Mephisto Part 1
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    Mephisto Part 1

    By Stephen Shypitka

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    Once touched taken. Never to be the same.
    The legend of château Boutavant its siren butcher and his troubled and tragic loves.
    A faerie story to make the brothers Grimm proud.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Shypitka
    Release dateApr 7, 2021
    ISBN9781005794613
    Mephisto Part 1
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    Stephen Shypitka

    Stephen's eBooks have sold across 4 continents in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Switzerland the UK and the US. His online success has allowed his work to be noticed, read and savoured with his fiction for our times that turns heads, crosses genres and connects us all. Stephen was born in British Columbia, Canada an alumnus of USC film school in Los Angeles, he has taught the craft and loves to travel.

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      Mephisto Part 1 - Stephen Shypitka

      Mephisto

      By Stephen Shypitka

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      © 2021 Stephen Shypitka

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      Dedication

      Pour août where I fell in love

      under its iron la tour

      CONTENTS PART I

      A Faerie Tale

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      About The Author

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      Mephisto

      A Faerie Tale

      He lay bare-chested and like his name, Amadour suggested, he was lovely. Naked in twisted sheets. Lost in the sweat of a golden fire. The flames off his lips. He whispered.

      Once touched. Taken.

      Wrapped together in each other's arms. His lips caressing.

      Never to be the same. Amadour continued and it was all true. Once his body had you, your life was altered, your world was forevermore, changed.

      It was hidden des Bois de Belleau north of the Seine-et-Marne département, the Chateau de

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