Chapter One: Gone

Annabelle Darrow has never been the same since her first love Derek "Mule" Mueller went missing during a hunting trip twenty years before. As she begins to pick up the pieces of her life, she receives a shocking phone call: Derek is alive, found wandering the very forest where he disappeared. Seeing him again brings back old emotions, until his father turns up dead, and the list of suspects is narrow. Not to mention, Anabelle is now losing time, and a shadowy figure has begun to stalk her wherever she goes, leaving cryptic gifts in its wake. And Derek is beginning to act strange. Is the man who came back the same one she lost, or is there more to his return than meets the eye?