Cruel Awakening

The place where Valerie was being held wasn't Ravencrest Manor. It was a lonely wooden cabin tucked away in the deep mountains, far from Cresthaven, surrounded by endless corn fields.

Mountains rose on all sides, with corn plants covering the slopes in endless layers. When the weather turned bad, mist and clouds would cling to the peaks all day long.

There was no way to get any signal out here, no