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    The Christmas Bell: Rachel's Story
    The Christmas Bell: Rachel's Story
    The Christmas Bell: Rachel's Story
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    The Christmas Bell: Rachel's Story

    By L.A. Detwiler

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    Even wretched, evil girls have stories to tell.

     

    From the USA Today Bestselling author L.A. Detwiler comes the prequel to the horror novel The Christmas Bell.

     

    When Rachel's family decides that she's too broken to fix, they abandon her at the Redwood Asylum. Tormented and tortured by an evil man disguised in a doctor's coat, Rachel realizes there are some horrors worse than death. But when a girl who understands her mental struggles shows up, Rachel will be lead down another equally dangerous path. 

     

    Will Rachel's thirst for revenge for her twin sister's betrayal lead her to redemption or down a dark, winding path full of evil?

     

    Every villain has a story. Grab this short story prequel to The Christmas Bell to see where the horrific fate of the Mills family began.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Detwiler
    Release dateDec 17, 2020
    ISBN9781393448273
    The Christmas Bell: Rachel's Story
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    L.A. Detwiler

    L.A. Detwiler is an author and high school English teacher from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. During her final year at Mount Aloysius College, she started writing her first fiction novel, which was published in 2015. She has also written articles that have appeared in several women’s publications and websites. L.A. Detwiler lives in her hometown with her husband, Chad. They have five cats and a mastiff named Henry.

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      The Christmas Bell - L.A. Detwiler

      Chapter One

      1955

      The sun shining in a contradiction to the grayness inside of her, Rachel settled on a single truth that she would clutch for the rest of her days: she should have killed herself rather than let them bring her back to the demented place.

      Rachel pressed her nose up against the glass in the car window, her dad stoic as he drove through the iron gate into the dark forest surrounding Redwood Asylum. She’d been there once and swore she’d never let them bring her back. She’d do whatever she had to do to stay away from the malevolent stone walls that had suffocated her last time. Yet, there she was, the car driving up the winding path as the silence of the place crept into her bones. Most forests touted wildlife, a serenity. The forest surrounding Redwood reeked of death and sounded like decay to Rachel.

      She thought about running away. She could jump out of her door and be lost in the thick forestry before Dad had time to react. She should have run when she had the chance back at home. Still, she’d thought it would be different. She thought that maybe, just maybe, her mother, her sister could learn to love her. To see her. She thought it could be different.

      Where there used to be hope, now hatred and hurt manifested instead. She now dreamed about her sister squirming under the end of a butcher knife, her mother hacked to pieces in a

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