The Bloodstained Secrets of Sterling Shores

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Parts 3
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What happens when a trio once deemed inseparable by everyone they came into contact with splits up and decides to renew their friendship eight years later? Elementary school teacher Rayne Adler, rising music star Mae Peterson, and news anchor Amadeus Barlowe would love to find out. 


Desperate to rekindle the fellowship and camaraderie lost years ago Amadeus invites the other two for a short trip to his parents' beach house on the coast of Stirling Shores, the place they spent every summer together. Things seem to be going well until their reminiscing uncovers a blank spot in each person's memory. Something about Sterling Shores begins to seem not quite right and the three are determined to get to the bottom of it.


All that's left to puzzle out is why so many of their fond memories are hazy around the edges and what about the name Edmund Livingston makes the air run cold.All Rights Reserved

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