Fractured: 3 Disturbing Tales

by Michele E. Gwynn

Genres: Paranormal; Ghost; Mystery Anthologies & Collections; Supernatural suspense; paranormal; horror; ghosts; collection

Synopsis

How do you know when you're dead? Find out in these three chilling tales that walk the line between this world...and the next!

A Slow Awakening

Premiering in this set, A Slow Awakening is a nightmare happening in real time. Frances Baker is an old woman living alone. Afraid of storms, and of the dark, she must brave both one dreary, frightful night. Hoping it soon passes, she awakens to a situation far more terrifying. Unable to move or even speak, she is trapped inside her own body with no way to call for help. As the storm rages on, the demons from her past prey upon the vulnerable woman, dragging her down into a memory buried deep, one best left forgotten. Throughout the night, her life passes before her mind's eye, taunting her and daring Frances to face up to her own mistakes all the while praying for morning to come, and for help to arrive.

Cavanaugh Road

Previously published in Guardian of Dreams from Paper Gold Publishing. "A life for a life. Someone must pay the toll."

On a stormy afternoon in 1951, tragedy strikes ending the dreams of a teenage girl along a lonely stretch of country road in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The truth hidden, twenty years later, another life meets its fate on Cavanaugh Road. Jake Williams has little time left to enjoy his freedom. The threat of the draft looms as his eighteenth birthday passes. With his older brother, and his best friend already deployed to Vietnam, each day is a gift. He has his job at the diner and his brand new, used Javelin. The only thing missing is a girlfriend. One night, Jake spies a pretty blonde outside of the diner, but before he can reach her side, she disappears without a trace. Intrigued, he decides to find out who the new girl is, but fate steps in, delivering devastating news to his family, and issuing a summons he can't ignore. Despairing and desperate, he takes off down Cavanaugh Road where a near-death car wreck changes his life. It's there, injured and shaken, that Jake comes face to face with his destiny. The beautiful girl, the one who has captured his heart, is suddenly there to save him. She promises to take him home. But things are not what they seem, and long-held secrets begin to unravel right under Jake's nose, within his own family. As his days grow shorter, the mystery deepens, and the answers lie around the bend, in an old family plot, on Cavanaugh Road.

Split

Previously published as a standalone.

A car accident left Jennifer Jones alive, but killed her parents. Survivor's guilt and grief strangles her soul while the continued abuse from her fiancé, Aaron, breaks her spirit. Without warning, she snaps. Free from the moorings that bind her to the rational world, Jennifer finds that stepping across the line, and committing cold-blooded murder means she no longer needs to follow anyone's rules but her own - but has she gone too far? Now that she's tasted the heady power of controlling her own destiny, she can't stop!

Down the rabbit hole she goes into a realm of psychotic darkness so deep, she may never find her way out again! As her world begins to spin out of control, she's haunted by her misdeeds, and pushed further over the edge. The struggle to hold it together is tearing her apart, and if she can't find her way back from the dark abyss, Jennifer will split from reality for good!

From the gray matter of Michele E. Gwynn, author of the Green Beret Series, the Checkpoint, Berlin Detective Series, and The Soldiers of PATCH-COM comes three twisted and chilling tales that will keep you up at night, lights on, covers pulled up to your chin.

18+ for Language and some Adult Situations

Release date: September 21, 2017

Publisher: M.E. Gwynn Publications

Print pages: 121

Content advisory: 18+ for Some Language