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The Stranger in My Grave
Monica Graves
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Elara Hayes, a restless soul cruising westward in her '67 Mustang, Betsy, finds solace in the open road. Her carefully curated playlist and ever-shifting landscapes offer a temporary escape from the anxieties that haunt her. But a detour to a forgotten churchyard shatters her carefully constructed world. A gravestone bearing her name, her birthdate, but a death date decades before she was born, stops her in her tracks. The faded photograph reveals a woman who could be her twin – Isobel Thorne.
Drawn into the unsettling mystery, Elara abandons her nomadic life and sets up a temporary base in Havenwood, a sleepy town shrouded in secrets. Her search for answers unearths a chilling family legacy: eerie doppelgängers whose deaths mysteriously coincide with moments of fortune in the lives of their living counterparts. A sinister bargain with unseen forces seems to dictate the fate of Elara’s bloodline, one life thriving at the expense of another. With Isobel already gone, Elara realizes her own life hangs precariously in the balance.
In Havenwood's enigmatic librarian, Silas Blackwood, Elara finds an unlikely ally. Silas, a scholar of forgotten lore, recognizes the pattern as an ancient pact with entities that dwell in the shadows between life and death. As Elara and Silas delve deeper, deciphering cryptic symbols and hidden journals, they uncover a hidden chamber beneath an ancient oak, the very heart of the pact. But these entities aren’t simply malevolent forces; they are custodians of a delicate balance, and the pact is more complex than it seems.
Haunted by increasingly vivid visions of Isobel’s life, Elara pieces together her double's own desperate struggle to break the cycle. The whispers of the past reveal not a victim, but a fighter. Armed with Isobel's knowledge and Silas’s guidance, Elara confronts the entities in a climactic showdown beneath the ancient oak. She must make a choice: her life for the freedom of her descendants. But Elara, fueled by Isobel’s spirit and her own fierce independence, refuses the bargain. She proposes a new pact, a balance between life and death that doesn’t demand a terrible price.
Will Elara succeed in rewriting her family’s fate, or will she become another victim of the legacy that binds her? Discover the chilling truth in *The Stranger in My Grave: A Legacy of Shadows.*
Kundenbewertungen
paranormal mystery books, family curse novels, small town secrets, past life regression, gothic suspense, doppelganger mystery, supernatural thriller