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What Lies Beneath The Clearing

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At just 7 years old, Lennox Rosewood suffers the most tragic experience possible - losing her mother. A day of exploring the mysterious Evergreen Forest turned out to be the last time Evelyn Rosewood would ever be seen again. After 9 years of following in her mother's footsteps, Lennox, now 16, has become notorious for her adventures into the unknown around her town, until she stumbles across a manor house hidden deep within Evergreen's bounds that traps her into a trance that ends her adventurous curiosity for good. Enchanted by its alluring energy, she and her friends make the mistake of returning time and time again, only to find themselves locked into a game they are forced to play to protect themselves from unseen dark forces living within the manor's walls.

When the lives of her friends are threatened by the manor, Lennox has no choice but to try and discover the truth about the stories and legends surrounding the forest, but the supernatural energy pulling her deeper into its clutches make it impossible for her to differentiate between reality and fantasy. Amongst the riddles, visions, and voices echoing in her mind, a memory from Lennox's childhood surfaces as a dream that hints at the involvement of the manor in her mother's sudden disappearance - if a disappearance is all it was. After years of believing her mother was gone for good, Lennox is thrown into a world of puzzling mysteries that, if she can maintain her sanity, will help her discover the truth about what happened to her mother, the strange connection between the manor house and her family, and if there is a way she can protect her friends from forces she never knew could exist.


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A Spiritual Mystery by summer_sumi

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Beyond the Pain - Book #1 Evergreen Series by DoodleBerry4012

"You are safe." She paused for a moment, her gaze fixed to the wall in front of her. "But you're not free." AFTER LILY JONES LOSES EVERYTHING she holds dear, she does everything in her power to forget her pain. She breaks all ties and moves across the country. But when she is forcefully taken to Evergreen, a breathtaking but mysterious mansion where she is ordered to work as a maid for its equally enigmatic inhabitants, she is robbed of the only thing she had left: her freedom. There, she encounters two groups of people. Those who, like herself, have been ripped of their independence and forced into servitude, and their young, rich and austere captors, the Evergreen people. As she gets familiar with life in her peculiar prison, memories that she kept buried try to resurface and she starts to suspect that the secrets kept within the walls of Evergreen might be more unnatural and dangerous than she could ever imagine. Will she be able to save herself and her new family from the storm that threatens to break on Evergreen or will her repressed guilt and fears cause her to lose the people she cares about once again?

Rosewood and the legend of the Unicorn by Jade154

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The Awakening

At 37, Cambry Keller has spent her entire life feeling as if something was just a bit... off. Her job, her relationships, her home-all perfectly ordinary, yet there was always a nagging feeling deep within her that she was meant for something more, something extraordinary. But nothing ever changed, and soon, she resigned herself to the quiet monotony of her life. Until the fall after she turned 37. In the span of a single autumn, everything Cambry thought she knew about herself-and the world around her-was turned upside down. Strange dreams begin to haunt her nights, filled with forgotten symbols and places she's never been, yet feels intimately familiar. Her body begins to change in subtle, unexplainable ways: heightened senses, a newfound connection to the natural world, and the inexplicable ability to influence the elements. As the leaves fall, Cambry uncovers long-buried family secrets that reveal her true heritage: a powerful bloodline with ties to an ancient mystical order. The dormant magic within her awakens, and Emily finds herself thrust into a world of enchantment, danger, and ancient forces vying for control. Her journey of self-discovery leads her to allies and enemies, both human and supernatural, as she grapples with the powerful abilities she never knew she possessed. But as her powers grow, so too does a looming threat. Cambry must learn to control the magic that now courses through her veins, or risk not only her life, but the fate of the world. In this transformative season, Cambry will come to understand that she is not just different-she is extraordinary. And the time for her true purpose has finally come.