Fiction | Ghosts | Romance | Scary Stories

Grave Secrets: A Spooky Romance Novella (Chapter 1 of 7)

It’s 1935 … a sweet, unexpected romance … and frightening events from beyond the grave …

Liberty Forrest
16 min readOct 13, 2024

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Book cover, Grave Secrets by Liberty Forrest
Author’s photo: Book cover by Elizabeth Mackey Graphics

Until that morning, Robert Montgomery would never have believed in ghosts. Until that morning, he was a man of science, a recent graduate of medical school who dealt in facts.

But that morning, as fear gripped his heart and his blood ran cold, everything changed.

It was 1935. Wednesday, the 15th of May, to be exact, when the young man was meant to be on his way to Tennessee to start a new life as a country doctor and general surgeon.

But with the bizarre events of that morning, Robert didn’t know which was worse: questioning his sanity, or discovering that something otherworldly had invaded his life.

It had all started as he was preparing to leave the one-room apartment that he had been renting in Albany, New York. He was due to board the 9:20 a.m. bus for Nashville, near a small town where his sister, Sandy, lived. Missing her kid brother, she had made some inquiries and found that the local doctor’s office had an opening for him.

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Liberty Forrest
Liberty Forrest

Written by Liberty Forrest

Creator of “Witchy” cartoon. Award-Winning Author. Dedicated Pizza Lover. Follow my budding novel career: The Novelist's Journey (Personal Pub)

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