''Mystery of Collinsworth Manor''

By Victoria Rose

The author was born and raised in a small West Virginia town among the hills and mountains she so loves. Her family tree, however, has very deeply planted roots in the Carolinas of the South.

Her Great Grandmother lived to be over ninety years old, but never left the small city where she raised her family in Northern North Carolina.

Her Grandmother moved to Western West Virginia in the roaring 20s and settled down in a small town near the Kentucky border, where the author was latter born, and remains to this day.

She has been afforded the opportunity of raising three wonderful children, who all have left the area, other than one son, who remains.

The two female children have provided her with three marvelous grandchildren. One of the Grandaughters has now brought two wonderfull children into the authors life - one is a Great-Grandaughter and the other a Great-Grandson and loves both dearly.

The author lives with her husband of fifty-two years, and looks forward to completing their lifetime together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469158341

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See this he said, as he opened a panel in the closet that looked just like a wall and slid the panel back ever so carefully as it slowly begin to expose a hidden passageway

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Elizabeth suddenly had the strangest felling she was being watched by someone. She looked all around her and determined that no, there is not a trace of anyone around her inside the house or outside either that she could make out. She then concluded it was just her imagination

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She was in front of her parents room, when right at that precise moment, the door opened and a stranger she didn’t know dressed in all black with a black sweat shirt came running out of her parent’s room and ran right past her and then down the big stair case

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There may come a time in someone’s life when they know that all of the events in their life have led them to a place and a single moment in time—and they can just tell that their life will forever be altered—their life will always be defined by this moment—everything which has occurred before this moment versus everything that occurs after this moment. Surely, in Nellie life, THIS IS THAT PLACE AND THIS IS THAT TIME!

CHAPTER

ONE

The telephone starting ringing at the front desk and the secretary answered it with great excitement, and then she smiled at the couple that was standing in front of her; congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Collinsworth, the home is yours now.

They smiled at each other and was very happy because this was the type of home they had always’ wanted. Now all they had to do was move their belonging into their new home. Although they have only one child she will be able to grow up in the new home.

The Collinsworth proceed to the new home and look it all over now that it was really theirs. John Collinsworth, father, Elizabeth Collinsworth, mother, Nellie Daughter, that is the extent of their small family, oh yes not to forget their sheep dog, her name is Daisy. She is meant to be a companion and a playmate for Nellie. The way it has turned out it will be nice on such a large piece of property, 400 acres to be exact. It is so far from town and neighbors except for one neighbor that lives at the foot of their property where the road starts. They are a nice man and his wife, his name is Mack, and her name is Millie. Other than that couple they have no other neighbors.

Although they have hired a care taker for their land, he won’t be arriving for about a week. His name is Jake. There is a small guest house on the property, which is where Jake will be staying. That way he will be on the property when needed.

Their young family arrived at the property and started to settle in. The property became theirs on Friday, the next day they started moving their thing’s into the house.

The moving truck was supposed to be at the new house with all of their belonging at two in the afternoon, which would give them time to stop in the small town from their house and have some breakfast and let the family see their new town.

They are from Indiana themselves and only about 30 miles from their previous residence. They had lived in a small rented house, but now they have their own home with a lot of land and all the niceties of life, this is going to be a whole new experience for them.

They had a nice breakfast and they loved their town because it was everything that they had hoped it would be. They were very anxious to get their things in and start enjoying their new life and future.

They headed straight to the home of their dreams that they had just purchased. Mr. Collingsworth wondered how anything bad could ever happen in such a nice place where everyone was so friendly. As they drove up the road they had to think about how most people would think it strange to have only one way in and one way out. However, to them, they thought, how much more intriguing that made it.

They all waved at the neighbors at the foot of the hill. They were sitting on their front porch; they had the look that was their favorite place to be. The Collinsworth thought how thankful they were that the real estate company had already told them their names because that would make it easier to introduce themselves to them later.

They were sure that their new neighbors knew who they were because the real-estate lady told them they would be moving in today, and were sure they had already noticed the moving truck go by because they were supposed to arrive about twelve thirty. They timed it that way, so it would arrive about the same time they would.

CHAPTER

TWO

As they approached the top of the hill, sure enough, the truck was in front of the house. The movers were unloading the furniture from the truck and getting ready to carry it inside the house.

Mr. Collinsworth looked at the movers and remarked that he had unlocked the front door so they could carry their belongings inside. While he was with the movers, Mrs. Collinsworth was holding their daughter’s hand, since Nellie was only two years old, she felt it was a good idea to hold onto Nellie’s hand until she was a little bit older, and got used to her new home.

But of course the first thing Nellie wanted to find out was which room belonged to her. She had plenty to choose from out of the fifteen rooms, however, her mother was sure she could persuade her to pick one close to theirs, and after all they were all beautiful. Elizabeth knew, in the event of a thunder storm, Nellie would always be afraid and would want to get in bed with her.

Nellie and her mother proceed to look for Nellie’s bedroom of her choice. Just as her mother had hoped for she found one just across the hall from hers and her husband.

Just as they entered the second floor where the bedrooms were located, Elisabeth showed Nellie the bedroom that her and her father would use. They had picked it out the first day they looked at the house and fell in love with it.

Nellie told her Mother that she would be close to them in case of a bad storm. You are right said her Mother, with such tack in her voice, that would surely please my young daughter. It was a beautiful room she had chosen, and also had an adjoining room with it. Nellie informed her Mother that one would make her a beautiful playroom to put all her lovely things which she had a large amount of, including a caracial with two ponies her Father brought her home from a business trip he had taken last summer.

Now that all of the important things had been taken care of, Elizabeth knew her husband should just about be finished with the movers. She was sure he had showed them all the rooms that the things were to go into, the rest would be up to them when the movers were gone to decide were everything was to go, that was the fun part.

Elizabeth knew they were going to work on the guest house tomorrow because they wanted it to be ready when Jake the care taker arrived because that was going to be his place of residence.

CHAPTER

THREE

The first day of the week has arrived. They had spent the whole weekend arranging their things just the way they wanted them, including the