The Forgotten Girl: Tormented, #1

By Bjorn J. P. Peeters

For some souls there is no rest

Chihiro returns to the castle that was once her home. High on the walls the Daimo's men stand guard, but they mustn't see her! Entering the castle through a secret passageway the young woman follows a path of tears and blood while she looks for redemption.

How many lives will it cost, and will she find it in the end?

The Forgotten Girl is the first installment in the Bjorn J. P. Peeters Half-hour Dark Fantasy & Horror series Tormented. If you're looking for a chilling story about being haunted by your tormented past and returning to a state of peace and innocence that was once lost, give 'The Forgotten Girl' a try!

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TORMENTED is a Dark Fantasy & Horror series of standalone short stories. In each installment one or sometimes many souls, living or dead, find themselves in a tormenting and twisted situation from which they cannot easily escape, if at all. Sometimes the stories have a (relatively) happy ending where peace or at least acceptance is found. At other times, the end foretells more torment to come. You can read the stories in any order you like. Check out the bundles, too!

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Half-hour Dark Fantasy & Horror stories are the perfect format for a break at work, a boring wait at the dentist's office, your commute, or just whenever you want to relax and have fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tales Of Peeters
• Release date: Jul 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201024451

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CONTENTS

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The Forgotten Girl

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

SNEAK PEEK: The Third Hour

Chapter 1

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THE FORGOTTEN GIRL

Tormented #1

Chapter 1

Chihiro followed the winding path along the mountainside.

As she walked, the breeze started to die down, and then it stopped. A silence fell over the trail that felt like a harbinger of deeply-felt sadness. Chihiro stopped by a boulder that was more than twice her height and looked at the castle in the distance. The place she had once called home. Somewhere behind the high stone walls where the guards patrolled, in one of the towers, had been her room.

The sun had just set. The castle was almost entirely swallowed by darkness.

Only the light from the fire baskets at the guard towers gave it away in the dark, but Chihiro would’ve been able to find the castle even without those to guide her. It was and would always be part of her. She would always be able to find it again. Neither the treacherous mountain trails nor the dark woods down below could keep her away from it.

Nothing could.

As she gazed upon the dark castle, Chihiro felt a pang of pain in her heart. It was unlike what she had ever felt before. A horrible, strange sort of pain that was born both out of sadness and of intense joy at seeing her home again. She felt like she had never missed her old home more than she