Myanna Moore: Haunted by the Truth Episode Six - "Darque Designs"

By Shannon Muir

Myanna begins to learn more about the "Darque Designs" behind her experiences as she searches to uncover what is really going on. This is backed with the novelette, "Mirror of Truth," featuring her mother Firinne "Truth" Knox as she continues to find herself and what bigger plan she is a pawn in. Continue to learn more about the origin of the young woman who will become Willowbrook's premier private investigator in THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shannon Muir
• Release date: Jul 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005600693

Shannon Muir

SHANNON MUIR's short stories include suspense and mystery elements such as those found in her first full-length story from Pro Se Press, CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALLY IN "THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER". Additionally, she's written short stories for Pro Se Press such as “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, "Pretty as a Picture" in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS, “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” a short story offered in electronic format only from Pro Se Press.From her personal self-published projects, her best known titles in this area include the rural crime series THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.In other genres, Shannon's published short stories include “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT and "Cover Story" in ARIA KALSAN: MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE.Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension. Currently, she is working on a Masters of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.She is a member of Sisters in Crime (national, Guppies, and Los Angeles, where she also served on the Los Angeles board for a two terms beginning in 2018), as well as the Toastmasters4Writers Chapter of Toastmasters International (where she serves as chapter Secretary), Women in Animation, and a Professional member of ASIFA-Hollywood.

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COPYRIGHT

A MYANNA MOORE: HAUNTED BY THE TRUTH Serial

EPISODE SIX – Darque Designs

A THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF Web Serial Compilation

By Shannon Muir

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2021 Shannon Muir.

Includes never before released novelette MIRROR OF TRUTH Copyright 2021 Shannon Muir.

First Smashwords publication July 2021.

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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX - AUTHOR’S NOTE

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER ONE

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER TWO

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER THREE

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER FOUR

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER FIVE

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER SIX

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER SEVEN

MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX – CHAPTER EIGHT

MIRROR OF TRUTH – DEDICATION

MIRROR OF TRUTH – AUTHOR’S NOTE

MIRROR OF TRUTH - PROLOGUE

MIRROR OF TRUTH – CHAPTER ONE

MIRROR OF TRUTH – CHAPTER TWO

MIRROR OF TRUTH – CHAPTER THREE

MIRROR OF TRUTH – CHAPTER FOUR

MIRROR OF TRUTH – CHAPTER FIVE

MIRROR OF TRUTH - EPILOGUE

ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR – MYANNA MOORE: HAUNTED BY THE TRUTH EPISODE ONE

ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR – THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA: THROUGH THE GENERATIONS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX - AUTHOR’S NOTE

I also just wanted to clarify what I meant when I talked about not releasing the MYANNA MOORE: HAUNTED BY THE TRUTH serial as a compilation. That specifically meant as a compilation along with the backing stories combined. Buying these volumes will be the only way for those interested in the Truth Knox backing tale to finish that storyline. Publishing is very fluid and changing, and so I’m learning I can’t be hard and fast on everything. There are goals for Myanna to be part of some of my larger writing after this point of my life is over, and it may serve to republish some or all of her serial story as part of that.

Also, thanks for your patience with the delay of the series. A big theme of Myanna (and Truth’s story) is the identity of motherhood and what defines mother, as it was even in the first draft of Episode Six. My own mother passed away in 2019 and it caused me to take a step back on these last few installments of Truth’s portion of the story and look at them with fresh eyes which took a little time. My heart was no longer in the story unless I revised it, and since nothing remaining in the Truth series had previously been published, I was free to do that so long as I stayed true to what I’d already released for both Myanna and Truth.

After taking a long hard look, I realized the remaining two portions were too long, and have removed part of what would have been the next manuscript as a novelette bundled with this installment, as there was a natural cut point in the storyline that lent itself to doing so.

My hope at this point is to publish the remaining two portions bundled with Part Seven and a never before released Epilogue to the Myanna series.

Thank you for understanding.

Shannon Muir

Glendale, CA

July 2021

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MYANNA MOORE EPISODE SIX - CHAPTER ONE

After she heard everything they had to tell her, Myanna still felt information to be missing.

There's one more resource I want to call on before we go forward. I am willing to vouch for this person with my heart and soul.

Who might this be? Branwen asked. We at the Order have a wealth of information on Darque, and yourself.

I need to reach out to my old mentor, the one who gave me the agency when he retired. He must have done a background check on me. He might have picked up something all of us missed. Right now, it’s crucial that we don’t make a mistake.

After a bit more of