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Kori Omoide owns a cafe with her best friend, Phecda. The catch? They live in a technologically advanced city that constantly boasts about its brilliant minds. In the year 2025, a mysterious toxin spreads through this new city, killing thousands of people. The blame falls on a mysterious masked boy by the name of Phantom, who happens to lead ten percent of the city´s population. But was it really Phantom who murdered two thousand people? What does Kori´s older brother have to do with the accusation? What exactly is this toxin? Kori goes undercover to find out, though what she finds could change her relationship with Phecda and the fate of everyone who works at their cafe forever...

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Julia Blackmore is an author and high-school student. Ten Percent is her first novel, but she has had a short story titled Vessel published in the Young Writers of Canada anthology, Summer Mornings. Born in Guelph, Ontario, she currently lives with her family in St. John´s, NL.

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