ꜰ ᴀ ᴄ ᴇ  ᴏ ꜰ  ᴛ ʜ ᴇ  ᴘ ᴀ ꜱ ᴛ

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'Well, if it wasn't you, who was it?'

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In her eyes, there was only before and after the fire. At the tender age of nine, her woodland home alit in flames from a stovetop accident. Along with their livelihood, her parents were lost in the destruction.

Since the housefire, Lottie Whitley and her brother, Eliott, were taken into custody by Aunt Rena. While he was accepted and loved, she grew hard from the neglect.

Three years after moving away, her life was finally falling into place. As fate would have it, though, trouble caught up to her when her neighbor, Penny, discovered some eerie sightings: foreign footsteps and a muddy handprint.

ʜ ɪ ꜱ  ʟ ᴀ ꜱ ᴛ  ꜱ ᴍ ɪ ʟ ᴇ

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Amora Kinley wanted him to notice her and it was her last chance. Bridger was a senior who would graduate in two weeks, so she put a note in his locker, yearning for the day that he would look her way; for the day that he would smile back.

This would be the best decision of her life, but, more importantly, it would also be her worst. 

Five years later, at twenty-three, she would still be haunted by the consequences. Life was going by all-too-quickly, but could she catch up? Could she ever forgive herself and move on? 

ꜰ ɪ x ᴀ ᴛ ɪ ᴏ ɴ

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In a life-changing decision, Brielle Nelson packs her bags and moves off-grid with her boyfriend into a log cabin. Though determined to settle in, it becomes difficult when a strange man warns her to leave before certain secrets are revealed. On top of this, her sister Ainsley begs her to return home because of an eerie feeling.

She's left dumbfounded, unsure of who to trust. To her sister, he's a man of malicious intent; to her boyfriend, she's a mother hen, stopping her from living life. 

 As the months tick by, Brielle continues to be warned of an awaiting evil, but little do they know, she's more similar to him than they realize.