witheredprayer
Inspired by "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
In the mist-shrouded coastal town of Elsinor Bay, shadows linger longer than they should-especially near the ruins of the LaRue estate.
Seventeen-year-old Elian Drey has never escaped the ghost of Annabelle "Belle" LaRue-the girl with sea-glass eyes and saltwater in her veins. Once, they were wild and inseparable, bound by secrets and starlight. Then came the storm. The night she vanished. The night everything changed.
They said she died of illness. Others whispered of a curse stitched into her bloodline.
But Elian has always known: death doesn't always mean gone.
Each twilight, he returns to the crumbling cliffs and the broken gate of her ancestral home, chasing echoes of her voice in the wind and the phantom touch of her fingers on his skin. As fog rolls in thicker, stranger things stir-birds fall from the sky, bells toll in the dead of night, and visions of Belle begin to bleed into waking life.
Drawn into a web of family secrets, ancient legends, and love that refuses to die, Elian must unravel the truth behind Belle's disappearance...
Before the sea claims him, too.