Cracks in the Veil
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Last published Thu, Sep 29, 2016
She's on the run, she has no clue where she's headed, and she's seeing strange things her rational brain can't possibly comprehend...but the problems don't end there. After the recent passing of her beloved mother, the only person keeping her tied to a run-down little town in the middle of nowhere, Daniella Romanus feels she has no choice but to escape the oppressive hold of her emotionally berating step-father and family. She's leaving everyone and everything she's ever known in pursuit of living a normal...maybe even happy life. But her problems seem to follow her like well-trained Rottweilers no matter how far she runs.
Still she drives...as far away as she can get...as fast as she can get there. She doesn't know what else to do, until she meets a strange man who seems to know more than he's telling her. The farther they run together, the more she realizes he's hiding things from her...things that have to do with the bizarre monsters she's been seeing in broad daylight. She thought she was cracking...finally losing what was left of her frail sanity. But is she really going insane? Or is she just beginning to see through the cracks in the veil...
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