Lilith is a 22 year old young woman from a small coastal town, Hagwater, who has always lived in the shadows of her best friend, Frannie. All is well until Lili meets Mac, who has a few secrets of his own. Suddenly Frannie isn't the center of attention and their friendship slowly shifts. Frannie begins going out on her own, making a whole list of dangerous friends, until one night she doesn't come home. Lili and Mac, armed with Lili's witchy ways, Mac's motorcycle, and a journal found stuffed under Frannie's mattress, begin the search for her in the dark underworld of Hagwater; a town named after the witches that drowned off of that coast, and the very bloodline that runs through Lili's veins.
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This is my first time seriously writing anything that wasn't a school assignment. I'm putting this out there to get some feedback, I hope you all like it. Will update with Chapter 2 soon!
And yes, it does not yet have a title, still working on that.
Frankenstein's Guide (Book 1, the LiteraTours Cozy Mystery Series)
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This story will become free again on 3 March 2025. It will be removed from Wattpad at some point in the not too distant future.
Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists.
Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats.
With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists.
To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . .
"Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series".
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