Foundobjects Stories

Lucy Beringer is falling apart. And no one seems to notice. Not when she stopped trying. Not when the school called. Not even when the words that used to protect her started turning against her. So she was exiled to a windswept island with a father who hadn't looked her in the eye in months. "To help you find balance," he says. But Lucy isn't looking for balance. She just wants someone to see her before she's gone completely. Instead, she finds a ruined chapel. A spiral carved in stone. A notebook that writes in her voice when she's not holding the pen. And an overwhelming feeling that something underneath the island is listening. She's not the first to disappear here. But maybe she'll be the first to come back. A psychologically layered mystery told through dual threads of third-person narrative and cryptic journal fragments. For readers who loved Coraline, The Lie Tree, or The Secret of Nightingale Wood.

First drafts of work done at Grub Street.

**FEATURED ON WATTPAD's UNDISCOVERED GEMS** Janey Cameron's life is falling apart Caught in the middle of her parent's tragic marriage she has no one to turn to and finds herself searching the woods at the family's summer lake house looking for comfort, solace, and peace. But instead she finds a very special tree, and a mystery that spans three generations bound by love and destiny. She longs for something that offers more than what her life is made of... she longs for love that never goes away. Follow Janey as she grows up and walks the path carved out for her. Even though you may not see it. When you ask for help, never doubt you've been heard. Triggers: While not a mature themed story, this does contain occasional language, examples and depictions of alcoholism, domestic abuse and childhood trauma. First Draft