Parallel
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Last published Tue, Jun 17, 2014
Ollie Grosen's father is dead, her sister is semi-annoying, and her mom is still in pain from the death of her father. Her new home at Cedar Creek is vacant, lonely, and quiet. But what happens when the dark past of Cedar Creek mixes in with the vacant present? Old ghosts, haunted antiques, blood-filled lies, and secrets about herself that not even she knows. And what will happen when a portal is crossed into a second world filled with horror and things the first world had never even thought of? Now Ollie must save Cedar Creek, her family, her new friends, and hopefully, herself.
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