The Crying Bridge
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Del Granger moves from Chicago to a small rural Illinois town after a painful divorce. She meets a young man, Evan Drake, with who she shares an almost instant mutual attraction and begins to enjoy the promise of her new life. As she settles into her new home, however, she begins to hear the eerie sound of a crying baby late at night. Del soon discovers her property was the scene of a horrible tragedy years ago and becomes consumed with solving the mystery of the crying baby. As her romance grows, Evan also becomes involved in the quest for answers.
This is an excerpt of a longer story, a novel in the making. The genre could be classified as both romance and paranormal or supernatural.
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