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When Diana Greene leaves her hometown for a new life, she thinks she has left the past behind: her sisters disappearance, her mothers illness, and the visions Diana used to see ... a clearing in the woods ... a moonlit night ... and human bones buried in the ground. And her past remains dormant until the day a mysterious woman appears on Dianas doorstep, promising Diana something she cant resist. If you help me find my missing daughter, Ill tell you what happened to your sister. Soon Diana is digging into the past, uncovering secrets the town has long since buried, secrets that the powerful wish would stay hidden. But when another girl disappears and the visions return to Diana with a vengeance, she knows she is on the brink of solving more than just a few missing persons cases. She is on the brink of discovering the dark and violent covenant that the town itself was founded upon--Publishers description.
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The Girl In The Woods
David Jack Bell
Digital Edition
August 2009
Published by:
Darkside Digital
P.O. Box 338
North Webster, IN 46555
sales@deliriumbooks.com
www.deliriumbooks.com
The Girl In The Woods copyright 2009 by David Jack Bell
Cover Artwork copyright 2009 by Mike Bohatch
All Rights Reserved.
Copy Editors: David Marty and Steve Souza
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
To Molly, of course.
And in memory of absent friends:
John Johnson and Matt Malay.
John Johnson and Matt Malay.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Shane Staley and Greg Gifune for their faith, honesty, and willingness to answer questions above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks to Mike Bohatch for the cover and the book trailer. Thanks to Molly, who read the manuscript in our cold house. For guidance and inspiration, thanks go to: Tom and Elizabeth Monteleone, Ed Gorman, David Morrell, Dallas Mayr, Terry Wright, Gary Braunbeck, Scott Nicholson, Robert Dunbar, Jonathan Maberry, Brian Keene, John Marco, James Reasoner, Bill Crider, and Ron Bayes. And to all my friends, family, and readers: Many, many thanks.
Part One: Disappearances
CHAPTER ONE
The visions, as Diana liked to think of them, mostly stopped coming when she left her hometown of Westwood, institutionalized her mother, and moved to New Cambridge to start her life over.
She remembered one of the last ones clearly, the one that scared her so much she decided it was time to change her life and start over someplace new, far from the hold that the recent past had over her. It was a rainy afternoon, two years after her sister disappeared, and a particularly intense vision had come upon her while she was driving, erasing the present moment of traffic and stoplights in front of her and transporting her to that other place, the one she saw so often and knew so well but couldn't understand.
The clearing in the woods...the tall trees...the moonlit night...the dark, rich earth and the secrets it held...
By the grace of whatever god or power that watched over hopeless cases like herself, she managed to navigate the car to the side of the road, apparently coasting to a stop and narrowly missing not only another parked vehicle but also two pedestrians, one of whom turned out to be an off-duty paramedic. It was this man who pulled her door open and was leaning inside the car when Diana came back to reality.
"Are you okay, ma'am?" he said. "Are you okay?"
Diana knew what had happened. After two years of the visions, she intimately knew the signs. A pain at the base of her skull. A rapid heart rate. And a fatigue, a deep fatigue that crept into her bones and made her feel as though she hadn't slept in weeks.
"I'm okay," she said. "I just...sometimes I just..."
"Are they seizures, ma'am? Are you on medication?"
Diana focused on the man's face. Young, freshly shaven. Strong. Then she looked beyond him. Moving cars, falling rain. People on the sidewalk living their lives, but some taking the time to stop and stare at the young woman who clearly had something wrong with her. The rain came in the open car, fell against her arm, sending shivers to her spine.
"I'm okay," Diana said. "Really. I just need to move on."
She gently but insistently pushed against the man with her left hand, urging him to go. He moved back but kept talking.
"Ma'am, if it's seizures, you need to see a doctor. You might not want to drive."
Diana dropped the car into reverseshe didn't know how it got into neutraland started backing away. The man moved back farther, stepped out of the way of the car. The door swung shut. She pulled into traffic, the wipers doing their work across the windshield.
"I'm okay," she said to herself in the car.
But she didn't believe a word of it.
And for the past two years, even as the outward trappings of her life had improved, Diana still had not been able to completely convince herself that she was okay, that she had moved on and slipped free of the past.
The visions had mostly stopped, yes. Her mother was, some days, stable.
But her sister was still gone. And Diana knew that the past was always there, waiting to come back and intrude.
And that is what happened the day she met the woman in the parking lot.
Kay Todd.
* * *
Diana was running a little late.
She knew enough about herself to know that her tardiness was a defense mechanism, a childish way to delay the inevitablefacing her mother and her mother's condition. Diana had quit her job and hadn't found a new one, so she had nothing to fill her time before going to the hospital except avoidance. And she was good at that, practically a master.
She scrambled to shower and dress, then paused to check herself in the mirror. She had lost a few pounds over the past couple of months, and she thought her face was starting to look too thin. Her brown hair had grown to her shoulders and needed to be trimmed before the ends began to split. Summer was ending, but she still looked pale, so she took the time to apply a small amount of make-up. If her mother was having a coherent daymore and more of a rarityDiana wanted to look nice. She grabbed a light jacket since they kept the hospital cool, perhaps an added form of sedation for the patients whose brains were already in deep freeze. And she was out the door of her apartment and turning to lock it when she remembered the candy bars.
As her mother descended deeper and deeper into the ravages of Alzheimer's, she became more and more like a child. She refused to eat much of the timehad, in fact, lost about thirty-five pounds off an already slender frame. But she did eat sweets. So Diana never showed up without a handful of candy bars, which the nurses kept in a locked drawer at their station and doled out to her mother on a daily basis. She went back inside, grabbed the candy barsHershey's, dark chocolateoff the counter, and then left, locking the door behind her.
Later, when Diana looked back at the series of events that had been set in motion that day, she remembered the candy bars and wondered if everything would have been different if she hadn't gone back for them. She might have made it to the car a few minutes sooner, and Kay Todd might never have found her.
But Diana knew this was not the case. This was simply another attempt at avoidance.
Kay Todd was determined to find her.
They would have met one way or another.
CHAPTER TWO
Diana saw the woman approaching from across the parking lot. She looked unsteady on her feet, wobbly like a drunk, and Diana hoped to avoid her, to slip into her car and be on her way. It was a warm mid-September day, one that had started cool, with frost on the pumpkin, and was heading toward a blazing red sunset. The clouds were just beginning to flame along their tips when the woman said Diana's name.
"Officer Greene?"
She was an older woman with the heavily lined face of a lifelong smoker. She wore a maroon windbreaker, its tail fluttering up as she walked, pink polyester slacks and white tennis shoes that were scuffed and worn. Her hair was thinning and gray and cut short like a man's, and when she spoke again, Diana saw a row of discolored teeth.
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