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Fran Seen
DollyWOOD: I don’t understand. I don’t understand why you don’t want to meet me. You chat with me every single day. Why wouldn’t you want to talk to me in person?
Blackbird: I love chatting with you. But my life is different from yours in ways you can’t possibly understand. People expect certain things of me, and if I do what I want, I disappoint them. If I do what they want, I disappoint you. It’s a lose-lose scenario.
DollyWOOD: I ‘couldn’t possibly understand’? You can’t be serious. You’re my best friend. What am I to you?
Blackbird: What it boils down to is: this friendship cannot leave this chat box.
Six years ago, I met Blackbird on an internet forum, drawn in by our shared interest: cemetery porn. We chatted every single day, until Blackbird vanished, leaving no indication he ever existed at all.
Armed with only a name and mailing address, I journey to Cherokee, North Carolina, home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, to discover if Blackbird is alive. What I uncover in the land of blue smoke is beyond anything I imagined, and the faceless stranger on the other side of my computer screen is a harborer of puzzling secrets and unsavory truths.
Should I sever our connection for good?
Or should I stay and weave my way through Cherokee culture and tradition, in hopes of unearthing the man behind the keyboard?
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At 40K words, this novella is part of Fran Seen's Online Romance series and can be read as a stand-alone.
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