title: Winter's Siren: A Dark Reimagining of Swan Lake
author:  Krystal Jane Ruin 
description: Krystal is the author of supernatural and paranormal fiction, living in the Tennessee Valley with a collection of swords and daggers. When she's not hoarding stuffed pandas, hourglasses, and Hello Kitty replicas, she can be found in YouTube hole or blogging about books, writing, and random things at KrystalSquared.net.
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  25 CHAPTERS SCANNED & OCR : complete. Minor mistakes throughout ebook.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EPILOGUE
  
  October 27, 1805
  
  "Oh, Serafina, it's beautiful!" Els cried, following her through the first
  floor of the yellow villa. "No wonder we never sec- you at court anymore.
  You've made a little paradise here!"
  
  Serafina grinned and brushed a curl behind her ear, beck oning her best friend
  into the dining room. "Look at the fresco." She pointed at the ceiling, where
  the rich colons of the Baroque painting had been carefully restored. Mars and
  Ven u s were caught in their golden net and looked not a whit sorry for it.
  
  Els laughed, marveling. "Reminds me of a couple I know
  
  Serafina chuckled. "Come, I'll show you the morning room. It gets such
  wonderful light that I have half a citrus orchard growing in there."
  
  The completion of the repairs and remodeling of the house had coincided with
  the end of the threat of war that had hung over the ki