By. Emma Michaels
In my debut novel ‘The Thirteenth Chime’ there is a prison mentioned and an attempted escape by two prisoners. One of whom we are led to believe actually made it off the island and is back for his revenge. As the clock chimes thirteen times attacks seem to keep happening but before the attacks, there was his escape. The story behind his escape seems near impossible. It used to be that well behaved prisoners could work carving wood or making furniture that would be sold by the prison and upon their release they would be given the money for their hard work.
Only in The Thirteenth Chime two prisoners have another idea. Working tediously a prisoner made a grandfather clock, only instead of it telling the time it had an entirely new story to tell because inside was a hiding place where he was planning to escape with the help of a friend. Only this friend learned of a betrayal that had yet to have happen just a bit too early and let’s just say that it caused the escape to truly be a mystery.
Seems impossible right?
Except for that it is based very loosely off of a ghost story down in Steilacoom about McNeil Island, a prison island named after the ship captain William Henry McNeill. There was a prisoner on the island who was not only rumored to have escaped but to have been seen in three different places in one night, all of them impossible and two of those places, off of the prison island.
So while the story might seem impossible you will just have to find out if it truly was. Did he make it off the island alive or was it only his hatred and revenge that made it ashore leaving him in the oceans depths?
There are ghost stories that have existed for as long as we can remember and in book two in the “A Sense of Truth” series. You just might get to be a part of one of them. If you enjoyed The Thirteenth Chime I can hardly wait to see what you will think of book two and while I cannot release the name just yet. I can tell you that I will me making an announcement sometime in the next few months so feel free to hop i n!
The Thirteenth Chime by Emma Michaels Publisher: Bokheim Publishing (August 13th, 2010) Reading Level: Young Adult Paperback: 246 pages Series: Sense of Truth, book #1 No one knew of its existence until it was removed from the attic upstairs.
In a beautiful house that overlooks the sea, an antique clock has the power to change the course of their lives.
The power the clock resonates will not only force Destiny and ex-boyfriend David on a journey into the depths of one man's mind long dead, but into the mind of a man filled with hatred and bent on revenge.
With the only clues to the nature of the clock having disappeared into the sea, Destiny and David must retrace the steps the man had taken into the darkness, before they fall prey to the trap he had set in motion over half a century ago.
Hatred never dies.
- Thank you so much Emma for sharing your story with us!
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