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Francoise Descoteaux is a wealthy French businessman in the 1930's. He purchases a large mansion in the Paris metropolitan area and packs all of his family with him. However, when a prized possession is stolen there is only one woman he could go to:
Mlle. Charbonneau,
Vérène Charbonneau, Private eye...
(I'll try my hardest to be historically accurate and feel free to help me out.)
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Camille Ellison had six sisters, but each one died. One after another, each on the full moon of the first six months of that year. She believed the first was accidental, the second, third, and fourth could be passed as coincidence; But as the deaths kept coming, it lead Camille to believe her family was cursed with something more than bad luck. As the last sister before Camille disappeared, she begins to count down the years, until it's time for her year, the one that will erase the Ellison sisters. But then she meets a strange man, and gets a strange letter. Camille begins to wonder if maybe she could find the reasoning behind her sisters' deaths. That is if she can escape the fog threatening to crowd her own mind. ** This is a thriller mystery short story fiction lol. Please don't expect it to be long because it wont be!! I have a full-length novel that I am working on currently though!
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