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THREADS OF THE DAMNED

Chapter 4 The Initial Evening

Word Count: 593 | Released on: 28/03/2025

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oking at the gown, her lips compressed into a

wled. "What do yo

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e more, though the atmosphere had changed-dull, h

k, I get the history lesson, but I don't think in curses

deep sigh. "There is.

ed her arm

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n to her knees and gras

away. "Abso

old woman warned,

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. and the dress st

se she nodded solemnly. "You're already tainted

the feel of the air in this shop being off. But journalist's instincts made her think t

out. "Okay.

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Mrs. Holloway

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“Some love stories never end. Some curses never die. As Emily Gray enters the tiny, abandoned town of Durnham Hollow to research the estate she's inherited from a distant, deceased relative she's never met, she has no idea she's entering a life she's already lived. centuries ago. Within the crumbling walls of Blackwood Estate is a cursed wedding dress, a stubborn mirror that will not share the moment, and a veil that breathes out forgotten vows. While Emily works to uncover the mystery of a dead bride, Isabella Blackwood, she finds herself receiving visions, memories. and someone else's feelings. For Emily is more than a guest to this haunted house-she is Isabella, reincarnate. And he-the unloosening groom-has waited. Tied by a blood oath and a love that overcame death, the ghost of the groom has waited for centuries, observing, waiting for the soul of his beloved to return so their incomplete wedding can at last be completed... even if it means pulling Emily into death to make it so. Now Emily is forced to confront a terror worse than her worst nightmares: to escape is to lose a part of herself, but to surrender is to seal her fate for eternity. To shatter the curse, she will need to uncover what actually occurred on that fateful wedding night... and confront the ghost of a love that will not die. Will she cut the threads of the cursed-or be woven into them once more?”