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The Photo No One Should Have
Newsletter of Action, Fantasy and Adventure!The Photo No One Should Have Michelle Cruise stopped short the moment she saw it. An envelope lay on her dressing‑room table, neatly placed beside her makeup kit. The paper was thick — the kind used for royal decrees or invitations to events that ended in scandal. Her name was written in ink, the color of old wine, with elegant, unfamiliar handwriting. No return address. No sender. Just a wax seal stamped with a lion’s head. She turned it over in her hands, brows lifting. Whoever sent it knew how to get past studio security — and how to get her attention. She broke the seal with her thumbs. Inside was a black‑and‑white photograph. Old. Grainy. Faintly smelling of dust and silver nitrate. The image showed a carving on a rock face, half‑submerged in water. A symbol she recognized instantly — a crude compass rose with a slash through the north point. She’d seen it once in an old bushranger article, a fringe theory claiming it marked the route to a hidden cache of stolen gold. A treasure map, if you believed the legends. A death omen, if you believed the ghost stories. She had suggested an investigation. Her producers had laughed it off. Michelle stared at the photo, her breath catching. The carving in the picture doesn’t exist. Not anymore. The 1912 flood along the Nerang River had destroyed the last of those markings. So how did someone manage to take a photograph of it? A soft knock sounded at her door. “Michelle? Two minutes.” She glanced at the clock. Two minutes until she went live on Secrets of World History. She slipped the photo back into the envelope and dropped it into her handbag, pulse hammering. Someone wants her to investigate it. Will she? ...to be continued... Here are some of my recommendations. ✨Get these books fast!
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