Surviving Extraordinary
When we meet our protagonist, Sandra (Sandy) Tillman, while reading “Mirror Mirror – Halloween Party of the Century”, ordinary was an accurate description of who she was, until an extraordinary series of uninvited events invade her ordinary life. As the tale develops, one might ask: Is Ordinary Even Compatible With Extraordinary?
That’s an odd question for certain, but it’s spot on for Sandy, a boringly ordinary 32-year-old real estate agent living under life’s radar, unseen, boring, and struggling to live as an uncomplicated soul by design as she healed from an abusive past.
Everything changed in her life when, during a scouting party to investigate the rundown, haunted-looking Hawthorne House estate for a kick-butt Halloween Party, extraordinary things began to happen. The house on the estate was inherited by Sandy’s best friend, Melissa Merriweather, when her grandfather, Marcus T. Hawthorne III, the most recent resident, passed away almost three years earlier under suspicious circumstances and unkind rumors.
They braved exploring the house, which had been unoccupied while the estate cleared probate, to confirm it was the best location for the party. The house looked haunted, and her grandfather’s eccentricities and rumors of his death were enough to make both women uncomfortable just being there. Things got worse when Sandy discovered an ancient leather-bound tome on a dusty shelf while exploring the library. The book had a thick, weathered leather binding with a faded, gold-leaf title in flowing calligraphy: “Mirror Mirror”.
When Sandy opened the book and read the handwritten encryption in the same calligraphy, ordinary departed, leaving her alone in the library of the rundown Hawthorne House. Did I mention Sandy was ordinary? The terrifying consequences she was drawn into by opening that book were quite extraordinary.
This tale will answer the question: Will ordinary survive extraordinary? Sandy had no clue that possessing a book that actually possessed her would require otherworldly help that went well beyond the extraordinary.
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