THE SHADOW BRIDE
He’s the only one I’ve ever truly loved in that house.
When Camille drowned in Lake Orion five weeks before her wedding, the family was shattered. But according to some old Appalachian tradition Camille’s fiancé’s family believes in, the wedding couldn’t be canceled. Not if the bride died. They said the spirits had to be appeased. The groom had to marry someone from her bloodline—or else misfortune would curse both families. That’s when Jim came to my job, eyes bloodshot, hands shaking. He begged me to step in.
“Do you take Elias Maddox to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for as long as you both shall live?”
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