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The Empty Room
by Sarah J. Clemens
Rain soaked and
dreary, it was a 1901 abandoned Victorian that newlyweds Dean and Elizabeth
Montgomery hoped would fulfill their dreams of a new start in life, even if the
town of Eastbrook, Maine was nestled under a constant blanket of fog.
The first neighbor
the couple meets dashes those hopes when he raises a bizarre question: what
happened to the last person who lived in their house? A cryptic question, but
nothing to worry about. At least not until the couple looked under the
floorboards inside the house.
Under mounting
pressure from the residents of Eastbrook to stop questioning the past, Dean and
Elizabeth are driven deeper into the history of the house, the town, and their
neighbors. When the couple discovers what happened in Eastbrook, keeping the
secret could save their lives, but uncovering the truth might be worth the
risk.
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Dean
made his way to the end of the hall, but found the smile on his face slide off
when he turned to find Elizabeth standing motionless at the opposite end of the
hallway.
“Honey?”
he questioned, still panting from the recent marathon. “What is it?”
Trying
to catch his breath, he walked toward the room where Elizabeth stood. It was as
if she was frozen in time just outside the last room on the right. Dean joked,
“Don’t tell me. It’s floral wallpaper, isn’t it? I knew this home was too good
to be true.”
But
Elizabeth did not respond.
He
took a deep sigh in a final attempt to catch his breath, and stood to the left
of Elizabeth looking for some indication for her silence, but no clues found
their way. “Hey, if I wanted to be ignored I’d call your mother,” he teased. “What’s
going on?”
He
stepped in front of Elizabeth to see what it was that had caused his wife to
lose any grasp of the English language, but was confused at what he saw. The
room she was staring at, one of four bedrooms throughout the house, was empty.
Under
any other circumstances, an empty room was nothing but evidence to the fact
that the house was unoccupied, but in this home, where the kitchen still had
year-old leftovers, an empty room was anything but ordinary.
He
stood beside her in the doorway for several moments. Elizabeth stepped forward,
only permitting a few steps past the door frame. “Why only one room?” she said
half to herself. “Was this the only room he packed when he left?”
Dean
followed her lead into the room. “I don’t think so. The realtor said that no
one had seen him moving, just that he’d left.”
One
of the smaller rooms in comparison to the rest of the house, the only item in
the room was a sheer white curtain that hung in front of the window adjacent to
the door. Snagged in the wooden frame of the window on a piece of flaking white
paint was a small red ribbon that had caught a weak breeze from a draft in the
window. To the left were two white doors to the closet, and aside from a few
spiders that had staked their claim, it was the only room not bombarded with
belongings.
Dean
nudged Elizabeth gently and persistently with his elbow as he looked up and
down the room. “This is fascinating and all, Liz, but remember when we were
looking for the master bedroom in our new home? That was fun, wasn’t it?” he
said.
Sarah J. Clemens
is the author of the debut mystery novel, The Empty Room. She started writing
The Empty Room in 2008 and formed her own imprint in 2016 called Off the Page
Publishing.
She started out
her professional career working as a news assistant for her local newspaper
before finding a passion for the law and pursued an education in criminal
justice. In addition to writing fiction, she is also a legal assistant with an
Associate of Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with an
emphasis in Human Services.
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I have been looking around for a good psychological thriller. This one sounds like its going to be really good!
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ReplyDeleteIt would be my guess a murder to place there.
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