The Crying Bridge
milissamcdaniel
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  • Reads 23,847
  • Votes 1,093
  • Parts 46
  • Time 10h 33m
milissamcdaniel
Complete, First published Dec 13, 2016
Mature
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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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Wesley Cridlin and the Devil's Daughter

5 parts Complete

A juvenile delinquent on the road to recovery is haunted by the ghost of a small town missing teen. You're only supposed to die once, but for 17 year-old Wesley Cridlin - once didn't stick. After delinquent behavior leads to a fatal car collision, his next destination is cross country to live with an aunt and uncle in rural Georgia. But a change in scenery and rules isn't the only thing Wes must adjust to. There's a girl, a dead one, and Wes is her new obsession. Picking up the pieces only gets more complicated when he meets Gabi Bolen, a girl recovering from her own tragedy and the living sister of his personal haunter. When the dead girl's manifestations intensify, Wes has no idea why he's the target, but it may have everything to do with Gabi. Desperate to keep Gabi from suffering the same fate as her fallen sister, Wes has no choice but to indulge the ghost. As the risk to his own life becomes clear, Wes knows not even he can cheat death twice.

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