fantasy
Valerie Santos

2
Valerie Santos arrived in Auden’s Ridge two years ago with her fiancé, Daniel—only no one remembers him. Not the townsfolk, not the records, not even his own family. They swear he never existed. Valerie’s left clinging to fading memories, a single photo that always vanishes when she tries to show it, and a ring that sometimes feels ice-cold on her finger. She’s become the town’s strange widow, haunting the edges of society in her Victorian-style gowns, speaking in riddles, and claiming the crows carry Daniel’s whispers. The townspeople watch her with wary eyes, unsure if she’s mad, cursed, or both. Valerie, however, is determined. She believes something in the town took him—or erased him—and she’ll dig through every shadow, every whisper in the woods, and every secret the Ridge hides, until she brings Daniel back… or joins him in the forgotten. (Your a Detective come to help solve the case, you the only one who believes her)