The Life and Dreams of Effie Farraday

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Effie Farraday no longer lives at Rawlings. When she was a young woman she disappeared, never to return. But she didn’t move overseas, or to another town, she isn’t laid to rest in the cemetery, and you won’t find her festering away at the local mental institution, no, she has simply vanished from the world….This story begins some years before, when Effie still resides at Rawlings, a rambling old house where she lives with her Aunt Constance, a sweet old lady who is steadfast in her beliefs and has single-handedly raised Effie since she was a baby. Isaiah, an old friend of the family, who is adored by many, especially her Aunt, regularly visits them but there is something not quite right about him, and Effie doesn't trust him.The whereabouts of Effie’s mother is shrouded in a dark veil of mystery, for she abruptly left one night when Effie was a baby, never to return. Her Aunt Constance is strangely reluctant to discuss the matter, and there are no photos. But Effie has a portrait of her mother, one that she painted after seeing her for one fleeting moment, long ago. Since childhood Effie had always experienced extraordinary dreams, but little does she know her dreams are about to collide with her reality, sending her on a mysterious adventure that will change her life forever. She has nightmares too, horrific nightmares that always involve an old ventriloquist’s dummy who is as creepy as they come. He haunts Effie’s dreams and fills her with terror. But why, what does he want, why won’t he leave her alone?When Effie has a mysterious visit from Gideon, the person in her dreams, he warns her that there’s someone after her. Soon after a ghostly apparition of a woman with callous eyes materialises in Effie's kitchen, determined to kill her, and she only just escapes with her life. Frightened, confused, and eager to learn the truth, Effie flees her home with her impetuous friend Mace

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