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He Who Weaves Dreams | #ONC2023

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Parts 12
Time 1h 51m

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[Complete] An old mansion. A stranger with a gift. And a mysterious disappearance of a family.

***An Open Novella Contest 2023 Shortlister***
***2nd Place Best Cover at The Massive Awards***
***Bronze Winner at the Throne of Awards***
***Third Place at Glorious - Awards***

Ten years ago, all the four members of the Belmonte family, the most illustrious family in the town of Sta. Barbara, suddenly disappeared, leaving their mansion and all their belongings behind. Time passed and still the mystery of their disappearance could not be solved.

In the same town, Claire Mendoza wanted nothing but to go to college and be able to help her family.  That was why she immediately took the offer to be an assistant caretaker of the empty ancestral home of the Belmontes. By taking the job, she was given a salary enough to someday send her to college and to even give some to her family.

Fueled by her mysterious dreams, Claire's stay in the mansion soon opened her curiosity to the questions hanging around the abode, demanding to be answered.

What happened to the Belmonte family ten years ago? How and why did they suddenly disappear? And why did the caretaker's handsome and attractive son, Jonathan Del Monte, suddenly appear and claim to be a Dreamweaver, trying to begin a cult in their school?

Claire must find the answers to them all.

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Sandrine is reluctant to take the job as a ghost hunter, despite her ancestral gift. And when she meets her boss and future partners, every fibre of her being tells her to quit-but she needs the money. How hard can it be to dispel the ghost of a bird? Soon, she finds herself fighting the advances of a medieval playboy, targeted by a flock of ectoplasmic ravens, and trying to solve the puzzle of the cottage in the lake. With disaster waiting around the corner, she truly has no time for a budding romance, right? ~ ~ ~ My entry for the open novella contest 2021. Prompts: No 5: There is a terrible drought ravaging the land, but when the waters recede from the local lake/reservoir, they reveal something no one expected to find. No 64. What should have been a simple task for a trio of ghost hunters quickly becomes something for which the term 'Worst Case Scenario' is the mother of all understatement. No 61. I would've lived longer if it weren't for Lorraine. There's only one issue... who's Lorraine? Words according to Wattpad: Chapter 1 - 1495 Chapter 2 - 1455 - milestone 1 reached Chapter 3 - 1469 Chapter 4 - 1552 Chapter 5 - 1563 Chapter 6 - 1620 - milestone 2 reached Chapter 7 - 1564 Chapter 8 - 1700 Chapter 9 - 1637 Chapter 10 - 1797 Chapter 11 - 1605 Chapter 12 - 1561 Chapter 13 - 1690 - milestone 3 reached Chapter 14 - 1842 Chapter 15 - 1762 Epilogue - 233 Total words published: 24545