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Natalie Randall had it all. A dream home in Bethesda Maryland. A rich husband who was a prominent lawyer in one of the biggest law firms in D.C. Two beautiful children and all the cars and clothes that money could buy. But amidst all the glamour and all the power, an all too familiar horror lays hidden behind the gates of Magnolia Lane. Once exposed, she seeks to find absolution and regain a sense of who she used to be. As she begins to reset her life, the unspeakable happens, her husband is found dead in his office with his throat slashed. A seasoned homicide detective is hot on the trail and believes Natalie to be the killer. In an attempt to prove her innocence, she seeks to find the killer herself, staying 10 steps ahead of the investigation. In her search for innocence, she discovers a secret about her husband that shakes her to the core and chills her to the bone.****THE WIDOW OF MAGNOLIA LANE IS CURRENTLY ON THE READING LIST OF WATTPAD'S PUBLISHING DIRECTOR (Deanna McFadden)********THE WIDOW OF MAGNOLIA LANE IS CURRENTLY ON THE READING LIST OF WATTPAD'S DIRECTOR OF CREATOR DEVELOPMENT****…

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This is a short story submitted for Wattpad's Mystery Contest. He thought of his talent as a curse. Aloof and fragmented, it was more bothersome than special. He tried to compress and bury it like a childhood memory but it only grew stronger, gaining strength within the shadows of his mind. When his fiancee is kidnapped, he must race against time to rescue her. Will the one thing that tormented him in the past be the one thing that saves the one woman he loves in the future?…

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There were many things that my mother and grandmother have told me throughout my life that I never understood in my youth. Words that seemed to dissipate like dandelion seeds in a gentle wind, only to find their way back at me as an adult. And now as I ponder over decisions, choose between right or wrong, or simply live to be the best that I can, their words embed my mind and soul. I could only tell it the way they have told me. Tell it the way I have told my children. Tell it like it is. Their advice is sacred. Their advice hurts. Their advice is the truth. Their advice is love.…