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He Who Weaves Dreams | #ONC2023

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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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A HAPPY FAMILY.

Avery willows was an average teenage girl who had lost her parents and had no relatives to live with, and to survive she started living on her own and got a part time job, of course money wasn't enough and she barely made ends meet but she managed, till she got hired to be a maid for the Gonzalez family which paid her an even larger amount of money than at her part time job, of course she couldn't refuse till she figured out about their secrets. "if I were you, I'd be careful. yeah they pay a huge amount of cash but there are rumors about them..." one of her co workers warned. "what rumors...?" Avery asked curiously. her co worker dropped the dishes she was washing in the sink and glanced at Avery. "every maid they hired would always quit and they were never seen again, of course the police investigated this but the Gonzalez are a pretty influential family sooo... be careful" she explained. Avery nodded but couldn't forget her co worker's words- at that time, if she had known what was going to happen to her she would've rejected the offer and even moved cities but she didn't, which led her to lots of crazy circumstances. . . . what was going on in the Gonzalez's house? why and how did their previous maids disappear? were they the happy family everyone knew them to be? read the story of Avery willows to see what happens and the mysterious secrets she discovers in the Gonzalez's family house.