The Lakes Chill
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Gwenn Blackmen was a gifted horror writer, having produced two best selling books within a five year time span. No one knew the horror in her stories weren't actually fiction, she had lived them. Now her editor is pressuring her for another book and with her worsening mental health he sends her to a huge cottage in a small town. Where the darkness holds more than the color black.
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