Golden Leaves
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Last published Thu, Dec 29, 2016
Anastasia Vilhjalmsson is desperate to fit in her new life in New York. Ever since she's moved there from Iceland, she's made two friends and plenty of other acquaintances, which is pretty cool in her book.
Then, it all changes when she starts seeing this confusing message everywhere; "Turn the lights off." She dismisses it the first time, but after that, she gets more and more curious. What's going on?
Then, she finds an extremely old looking book. The title is the message that's been haunting her for the past few days, Turn The Lights Off.
She buys it and starts reading it , noticing that the messages have stopped.
Then, a glow comes from under her bed, and she's pulled into a world that she never believed in and there's no chance of going back.
What will she do when danger approaches while Anastasia is still adjusting to her new world?
(Novel for NaNoWriMo 2015)
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