Last updated on April 10, 2022
๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐๐, ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐-๐๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐ฌ๐๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ.
Fresh off the reviews of her book, Author Isobel Fields decides to go on a week long retreat to a cabin in the mountains.
It’s the best place to complete the follow up to her hit debut novel. It’s quiet. It’s Isolated. It’s homey. She’s excited to be all on her own. Undisturbed…
Or so she thinks.
What happens when you are thousands of miles away from home with no cell service?
What happens when the cabin you are staying in has a dark history?
What happens when you are not the only one scheduled to stay in that cabin?
Most importantly, what lengths would you go to for the perfect story?
In her quest to find inspiration, Isobel may get more than she bargained for.
*๐๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐จ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐๐๐ค๐ก๐ค๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ง๐จ.*

๐๐๐ซ๐’๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ!!!
๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐!
***I am still giving out eARCs for those interesting in reading and reviewing***
Could hearts cry? If they could, mine would weep.
I draw in his scent, looking up into those storm grey eyes as he strokes my hair.
โThank you,โ I whisper.
โYouโre welcome,โ he answers.
He takes my hands and wraps it around the handle of the weapon.
Tears stream down my face as he raises it high enough to bring it down hard.
I feel the blade slice into my stomach. It is seamless. As if a hot knife were sliding through a brick of butter.
She told me this would happen. She told me I was making a mistake falling in love with the wrong person.
It was too late now, I stare into the eyes of the man I loved and let my tears fall freely as the blood begins to pour out of my stomach.
I stumble away from him. My skin immediately feels lost at the disappearance of his touch. โI-I need toโฆโ
He nods. โGo.โ
I try to walk, but thereโs no way that I can. Collapsing in a bloody heap, I drag myself across the floor. The blood helps me slide towards the laptop.
There is just the ending left. I need to finish that last paragraph. The paragraph where it all made sense. I could taste the best-selling spot already.
I need to be quick about it, I need to write that ending. This is it. This is the masterpiece I had been searching for.
At any moment, heโs going to come down with that fatal blow. That was our deal after all. After I told his story, I was no longer aloud to live. I knew too much.
I clutch my stomach, the squishing sound of my palm landing on my bloody bare flesh echoes in the room. I ignore the pain and continue sliding to the couch. I canโt sit up, and I know he wonโt help me.
I lift my upper body even as I feel the damage that I am doing to it. I reach up and my bloody fingers touch the keyboard. I sigh in triumph.
My fingers tap away at the keys, slipping on the blood covering the letters on the keyboard completely. My vision is hazy and Iโm sure Iโm about to succumb to my injuries within a few minutes. My eyes close against my will and try to open them again.
You can do this, come on! the voice echoes in my head.
For many days, the voice was silent as I wrote, he kept it at bay. Now though, I had no strength to keep up my walls. I tapped away for what seemed like hours but was a few minutes or so. I was just one paragraph away from completing the book.
I could do this. The voice was right, I could.
Thereโs a bang at the door and I look up sluggishly.
Someone is here, you donโt have much time, ISOBEL!!!
I sigh. โL-let me finishโฆโ
โGood guys finish last, Isobel,โ Abel laughs sadly as he reaches down and digs his fingers into my wound. โAnd despite what you tell yourself, I am not the good guy.โ
I scream and feel my arms being pulled away from the keyboard, but not before I hit send on the email. I watch as one of the many oil lanterns we had all around the cabin, crashes and bursts into pieces. The oil creating a trail of flames along the wooden floor.
I grin, my mouth full of blood as I look up at the hazy figure above me.
โThe end.โ
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