The Shadows of The Past (Cook's Cove Women's Fiction Mystery Novels Book 5) by Judy Leslie

Author:Judy Leslie [Leslie, Judy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Judy Leslie
Published: 2024-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Whitney stands in the door frame. Every night at midnight, the typewriter comes to life, clattering away, typing the same letter crying out for help. She can’t shake the feeling, a sense of déjà vu that dredges up memories she’d rather forget.

Her breath hitches as she recalls the night her mother was taken. She awoke to the sound of a man’s voice and got out of bed. Her stepfather was away on business, so she didn’t know who her mother was talking to this late at night. She was nine years old, peering through the gap in her bedroom door. It was dark, the only light casting shadows from the other end of the house. Her mother was moving quickly down the hall.

A figure emerged from the darkness. Whitney’s heart pounded in her chest as she watched, frozen in place. The figure grabbed her mother. A muffled scream echoed through the house, a haunting sound that Whitney would never forget. Her mother struggled, but it was over in seconds. The figure dragged her mother outside, the door slammed shut behind them, and they drove off.

Her hands covered her mouth. She wanted to scream, to run after them, but her voice was trapped in her throat, and her legs refused to cooperate. She peered out the window. The darkness swallowed her mother, leaving Whitney alone with the silence and the terrible, paralyzing fear.

She ran to the phone and called 911. When the police arrived, she was scared and confused. A strange woman asked her questions, but she couldn’t answer them. She had no idea who the person who took her mother was.

Now, years later, that same fear wraps around her heart, squeezing tighter with each passing second. The clock strikes midnight, and the typewriter springs to life, keys clattering with a frenetic energy.

Whitney steps closer, her hands trembling. As the letter begins, each word is a reminder of this woman’s fate. Her fear is suffocating, but she can’t look away. The memory of her mother’s abduction haunts her, a reminder of the darkness that lurks in the world. She feels a connection to Jane, a shared terror that binds the three of them across time and space.

As the typewriter finishes its nightly ritual, Whitney reads the letter, her heart pounding in her chest. The words are the same, yet they carry a new weight, a plea for help that echoes her own silent screams from all those years ago. She knows she must uncover the truth, not just for this woman, but for her mother and herself, to finally confront the shadows from the past.

That night, Whitney drops off to sleep thinking about her house, when a strange dream begins to take shape.

The wind howls across the waters of the cove, carrying with it an icy chill that seeps through the cracks of a vacant house. Inside, the air is damp, and moss eats at the faded wallpaper. Frayed and moth-eaten curtains flutter, casting eerie shadows around the room. Shards of glass litter the floor like frozen teardrops in the pale moonlight.

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