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Fifty years ago, a girl walked into the woods with only matches to guide her and then disappeared. No one could find her despite the exhaustive search until days later when her body came out without her heart. Upon her skin was written a dare:

"Come into the woods and find my still beating heart."

It’s a silly urban legend, or at least, it’s supposed to be. Over the years, many have followed the dare and many of the same have disappeared or come out just as dead, prompting the city to declare the woods off-limits.

Not that off-limits ever stops would-be urban legend debunkers...

When highschooler Felix Graves agrees to help his classmates, Vivian and Charlie debunk the urban legend of the Devil in the Woods once and for all, he doesn’t believe there’s anything to it. 

Well… until something finds him in the dark.

THE DEVIL IN THE WOODS is a 40,000 word contemporary paranormal novella set during  October and features: 

• Disaster teens making terrible decisions
• Urban legend might actually be real
• Cult that played with fire
• Woods that don't quite feel real
• Multiple POVs feat. Felix, Charlie, Vivian, & fellow classmate, Jaden

This is the compiled version of The Devil in the Woods serialized on my website. This version features updated text with tighter edits and updated chapter headings and images.

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Content Warnings: May not be appropriate for all ages. Contains blood and gore, brief mention of sexual assault, and references to alcohol and drugs.

If you have any issues with the files or the size of the images when reading on certain devices, please e-mail me at: earlronove@gmail.com.

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