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After witnessing the execution of a seemingly willing woman at a town feast, Kady becomes hysterical and is taken to the clinic to be treated for the "fever". He escapes from his host and finds a sympathetic resident who came to the town eight years earlier and was once in the same predicament. He
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Courtney Lovett, a local woman and the daughter of his host, much to the chagrin of Caine, who is also in love with her. He also befriends Amanda, a young girl whose father was killed trying to escape from the town, and who is being held at the clinic of Dr.
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