For Nevermore Season 1

ForNevermore Season One
    EPISODES 1-6

    Copyright © 2012 by Sean Platt & David Wright. All rights reserved
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    eBook Edition - April 10, 2012
    August 27, 2012: Added New Cover
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    ForNevermore Season One: Books 1-6 (The paranormal serial begins!)

    From the writers of the groundbreaking post-apocalyptic serial Yesterday’s Gone , comes a dark new fantasy horror serial, ForNevermore .
    All 17 year old Noella Snow ever wanted was a normal life.
    But normal died with her mother, minutes after she was born. Then again when her father was murdered before her eyes on her seventh birthday. Now she spends her days in quiet misery, an outcast at school, harboring a secret crush on her best friend, Sam.
    Noella’s only happiness lies in her dreams, in a world where her father still lives and Dante, a mysterious stranger with a deadly touch, guards over her.
    Now those dreams have turned to nightmares as Noella begins hearing voices, witnessing murders she can’t possibly know of, and seeing the monsters from her sleep merging into her waking life.
    Noella doesn’t want to return to King’s Point, the psychiatric hospital where she was forced to go after an “episode” two years earlier.
    She tells herself she’s better.
    But then one night Noella sees the impossible... Dante, watching her from afar, as he has for centuries – nearly as long as he's loved her.
    Is Noella losing her mind? Or is she linked to a hidden world, destined to be normal ForNevermore?
    ForNevermore is a bold new paranormal serial, with awesome cliffhanger endings that will make you feel like you’re watching your favorite TV show right on your Kindle.
    ForNevermore Season One collects all six “episodes” in their entirety into one full-length book for the first time.

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Dedicated to the freaks, geeks, and misfits.
    This is for you.

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::EPISODE 1::
    CHAPTER ONE

    Aurora Falls, New York
    Friday, October 26
    9:50 p.m.

    On the short list of things worse than what had already happened to Noella Snow today, being murdered was definitely one of them.
    It was her 17th birthday, and was officially her worst birthday in 10 years. Considering what happened on her 7th birthday, that was saying a lot.
    She was working the counter at Keefer’s Koffee, Aurora Falls’ pathetic excuse for an echo of Starbucks, and wondering why she’d even agreed to cover Tammy’s shift. She looked at the clock for the hundredth time. Ten minutes until closing. It seemed as if the clock was conspiring to keep her from the bed she couldn’t wait to fall into, where she could pull the covers over herself, and try to forget this day ever happened.
    Noella was wrapping unsold brownies in thin sheets of ice blue cellophane so they’d be “fresh” for the morning rush, while ignoring the urge to shove one, or five, in her mouth. Sure, it would dull the day’s pain . . . for a few minutes. But once she swallowed, the dull ache would return, stronger, accompanied by her old friend guilt.
    Treat yourself, it’s your birthday, girl.
    It was her birthday, and she had grown into a slim young woman, but neither changed a childhood of name-calling, with barbs such as Thunder Thighs, Chunky Monkey, and Patti Fatty, crushing trust and reducing her confidence to crumbs.
    Noella slid the tray of brownies into the cooler with a decisive shove, just as the front door dinged and split the silence of the nearly empty coffee shop. She looked up, and felt a cold snake of terror slither across her shoulders, then down her spine.
    Noella wasn’t sure how she knew, whether it was the voices she’d taken pills to silence, or a hunch, but she