14,935 words. This is Part 1 of The Bride of Raynor
After finding out that her husband's been cheating on her, and that she doesn't feel the anger she should feel for it or having the willpower to do anything about it, Mary reluctantly decides to follow a strange man into the woods. She puts aside the fear, the uncertainty and the paranoia and gives in to something more within her that she hasn't felt in years.
Shortly after going in the woods, the man hands her a gun. From there, she's thrown into a world of darkness and confusion that probes at what she's willing to sacrifice to find out what she's been missing in life and what can take it all away.
A fabled African monster asking for her hand in marriage?
An FBI agent that wants to hang the monster?
Or the strange Marionette...a woman with insidious ambitions that both haunt and chase her.
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