Secrets Where the Lost Bridge Ends 1

Water #1

by Jacie Middlemann

She’d known the boy he was, and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost.

Years later her life depends on the man he’s become.

Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery...

There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had no choice but to trust a family friend with his own share of secrets to keep them safe from a mysterious and threatening danger.

But was her heart safe from him...was it ever?

Addie might have been surprised by Tom’s unexpected arrival at her family home, but she didn’t question that he believed there was an impending threat to her life. He didn’t lie. He never had.

And she would know. They’d shared a thousand yesterdays with no promise of tomorrows.

Tom was determined to keep Addie safe. He wasn’t completely certain just yet who the enemy was but he had a pretty good idea what they’d lost and wanted back. And that Addie was their key to obtaining her father’s most closely guarded secrets.

Travel with Addie and Tom in this romantic mystery as the two of them along with family and friends unravel the secrets to the mystery of why so many people are interested in finding her.

If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with adventure, love, hope, family secrets, new and old friendships, a mystery or two to keep you guessing, and a long ago lost love rekindled...Where the Lost Bridge Ends is the series collection for you.

This is Book One of the eight-part Secrets Where the Lost Bridge Ends mystery romance short-story series.

Book 1 of 8.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 26, 2023

About the author

I fell in love with books when I was in the 4th grade and my free period was spent volunteering in the school library. I read every Nancy Drew book there was to check out, discovered collections of myths and fairy tales from around the world, Louisa May Alcott and C.S. Lewis, and decided I wanted my own library. By the end of that summer with the supplies our school librarian graciously provided me my books had due date slips, card pockets, book cards, and black electrical tape on the spine with the first three letters of the author's last name. I still have most of those books.
In the hope she could get me involved in something else my mother gave me a camera. Right around the same time my father told me I could use his typewriter when he wasn't using it. The typewriter won. We shared his typewriter but I also filled notebooks with stories scribbled before school, after school, and often when I was supposed to be asleep. Thanks to my mother, who saved just about every single one of those notebooks, I still have them as well.
Several years ago my father gave me his typewriter…the same one we shared all those summers ago. Every time I look at it I remember the young 4th grade girl who was quietly encouraged to do what she loved…and years later reminded with a box filled with notebooks crammed full of handwritten stories and dreams.
And it’s still not unheard of that I stay up way later than I should with a good book that’s just impossible to put down.

Reviews

[Cecilia Mora Jimenez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite frankly, I am going to copy and paste the same review for all 8 books because I honestly dont know how else to review the books. It is part of a collection of 8 small books that average about 37 pages each. I have no clue why the auther decided to write her story this way, when quite honestly it could have all been writen in 1 book all together. Anyways, on to the story itself. It was very interesting. A dystopian world where mutliple wars (sieges as they call them in the books) have broken out. The story follows Addie and her daughter Amelia, after their home was invaded by unknown people looking for the something Addie's deceaced father left behind. They had to escape with Tom and his son Will and go into hiding in a mysterious island with even more secrets still. Despite the story being split off into 8 small books instead of 1, the pacing is not too bad. The characters are well written and the world building was good, you can imagine everything and where everything is at ease. It was not super confusing or rushed despite it being 8 small books. I enjoyed it.

[zenith Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short

This was a very good and short story. Ed had something the government wanted and needed. I sure hope they get away.