The Moon Lies in Wait
“What is remembered is what becomes reality.” -Patricia Hampl
Title | The Moon Lies in Wait
Genre | horror/fantasy
POV/Tense | 3rd person limited, past tense
Status | second draft
Emily Lyn was only seven years old the night her parents were murdered. Torn from her home by the very creatures responsible for their deaths, she is kidnapped to a world inhabited by monsters–intelligent, soulless beings born of sin and chaos, destined to plague mankind until the end of time. For years she is subjected to unspeakable cruelties and violence, enslaved by these monsters and forced to adopt their ways in order to survive. Now twenty-one, she is as hostile and heartless as the creatures who abducted her, and has given up all hopes of living a normal life…
…until a chance run-in with a bizarre stranger sets her on a path she never knew existed. Soon Emily finds herself on the run with this strange man, one who claims to have ties to her past, to a life she’s long since forgotten. With the monsters at her heels and an unlikely ally offering aid behind the scenes, she must uncover the truth of who she really is, and confront long-buried questions crucial to her survival, including why she alone was left alive, and whether her parents’ deaths were simply a tragic accident…or the result of something far more sinister than she could have ever imagined.
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