Truth of The Thicket
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On the night of August 9th, 2014, a body of 19 year old Marceline D. Benavidez is found in a small thick just beside a suburbs street in small town New Basurto, Texas.
The witnesses/suspects of the crime state that while driving down the street at 9:30 pm at around 45 miles an hour a young woman had run infront of the car- causing the witness to steer straight into the side of the road. Worried they may have killed the woman, they called the town's sherif to help investigate and try to find any injured victim in the area, only to discover the body of Marcy.
The thing is, that young woman they had encountered was Marceline. She saw everything.
This story entails a young woman's journey to finding her memories and recollecting her mind to solve her murder, with help of course.
[The tags to the story (the mature warning, more specifically) will not pretain to sexual writing, the story itself is a mystery novel- the warning is there for language, and mature themes such as murder and various other crimes.]
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