Chapter 1

Annabella woke up in a cold sweat in her room. "It's okay," she told herself, "it was just a bad dream." She had that nightmare again; the one that woke her up day after day, haunting her. Shivering, she got out of bed to get a drink of water.

Annabella lives alone in the Jones Manor, and she has been for quite a while now. The floorboards creak, and the lights flicker; if she hadn't grown up here, she would have thought this house was haunted. However, she knows every nook and cranny in this house. She can tell you if someone is in the house by just listening from her room. Nothing catches her off guard in her own home.

On the way to the kitchen, she passed the family tapestry. It's like a family tree engraved into the walls in gold. She paused by where her mother's name should have been, and sighed. They only names that are legible on the tapestry are Annabella Marie Jones and Martin Scott Williams.

Annabella doesn't know who Martin Scott Williams is or where he is, but she does know, he is her last living relative. Annabella and Martin are the last hope for the Jones's family legacy; and she must find him, soon.

Seeing Martin's name still on the tapestry is reassuring to Annabella, because the tapestry is magical, and once someone dies, their name disappears. Seeing Martin's name tells her that he is still alive, for now. Annabella sighed and decided to crawl back to bed, hoping she'll conjure up some thought of how to find Martin in the morning.