Tribulation
by Jaydeep Shah
(Cops Planet #1)
Publication date: June 15th 2020
Genres: Adult, Suspense, Thriller
Synopsis:
When a couple celebrates their eleventh marriage anniversary at their old mansion far from the city of Naples, Florida, they begin experiencing paranormal events. While trying to find out the truth of what’s happening, they encounter a girl wandering in the mansion.
She is the girl whom the couple never wanted to see again in their life.
Surrounded by their sinful past and the girl’s deathly traps, the couple tries hard to escape the mansion. But they are stuck. There is no way out of the mansion. Every second, they approach their end.
There are many secrets buried in the mansion—about the girl, about the couple, and about their past.
Tribulation is a masterpiece of suspense, a thriller with some mild elements of horror from the imagination of Jaydeep Shah.
Excerpt:
As
the car passed through the open fields approaching the mansion, Casie’s heart
throbbed faster and faster. She was quaking with fear and worry, incredible
thoughts drifting through her head. If she’s returned, I’ll kill her. I’ll
take vengeance on Alex’s death. She can’t kill me. With every thought, the
blood boiled harder inside her, and her beautiful face turned pale, eyes red with
fury.
The
rain had stopped, yet the lightning was still rolling over the dark clouds, roaring
its thunder. Within a few minutes though, beautiful, cotton-like clouds
appeared, surrounded by clear blue sky. It was already late afternoon when
Casie saw the mansion up ahead.
Seeing
Casie’s car racing toward the mansion, the athletic security guard standing at
the twelve-foot-high gate opened the barrier in a rush, and Casie flashed past him,
squealing up the mansion’s circular brick driveway.
From
afar, the mansion looked small, its true beauty concealed. But now, right up
close, the mansion was entrancing—on a reserved eleven-acre parcel of land,
surrounded by gorgeous, towering trees and an array of small plants in the
garden.
As
Casie accelerated up the drive, she almost lost control, narrowly avoiding crashing
into the fountain—as the afternoon faded, the fountain’s own lights switched
on, casting colorful ribbons across the wall of the mansion.
When
Casie finally braked in front of the mansion’s door, the tires blew out,
screeching savagely against the driveway. The sound scared everyone present:
the security guard at the gate, some servants inside the mansion, and a man
with a burned face hiding behind the window curtains in one of the rooms on the
second floor, peeking outside at the car, holding the slightly parted fabric in
his fingers.
Casie
exited the car, her gaze fixed on the mansion’s front door and only there,
never shifting to anything around. But the man in the room swiftly ducked away
from the window anyway, just in case.
She
dashed into the mansion, pushing the door open hard, and looked around,
panting. As she took a few more steps into the foyer, a vision of her last
visit to the mansion flashed through her head.
Almost
everything was the same in the room as it had been then. Two tables, each with unlit
lamps, stood quiet to either side of the entrance door. A beautiful Fresco
painting hung on the wall to her right. A gleaming chandelier sparkled from the
ceiling in the center of the room, and below it, a beautiful white wool sofa
set rested, facing the TV on the wall beside her, next to the front doors. Behind
the sofa, a set of stairs led up to the second floor, their shadows reminding
her, again as vivid as if it were playing in front of her: a girl rolling down to
the floor, screaming for help.
The
only difference between now and six years ago was that then, the floor had been
stained with someone’s blood, while in the present, it was covered with
beautiful flowers. Last time, the room had been suffused with the awful iron
scent of that gore. Now, the fragrance of beautiful red and pink roses filled
the air, wiping out all other scents.
She
was sweating profusely in trepidation. The man who called me; he’ll appear
and lead me to Alex’s dead body. If she’s returned though, if she actually has,
she might pop out of nowhere and kill me, too, the same way she killed my
lifeline.
“Alex!”
shouted Casie, finally burying her fright. She stood near the stairs, holding
the edge of the railing. “If this is some kind of joke, believe me, it’s not
funny.” She looked around, but not even a servant had appeared in her sight
since her arrival. Investigating carefully once more, she saw a man’s
silhouette on the second floor; he appeared to be trying to hide behind a
pillar.
“Who’s
there?” shouted Casie, staring at the silhouette while tightening her grip on
the railing.
The
silhouette didn’t react; the man remained steady. Perhaps he wasn’t trying to
hide at all.
Casie’s
heart throbbed as she walked up the stairs slowly and carefully, her vision
shifting rapidly from the pillar to the silhouette and back to the pillar.
Suddenly,
the stocky man popped out from behind the column, screaming. Casie screamed and
stumbled backward, closing her eyes to avoid looking at the man’s burned face.
The man rushed down the stairs, catching up to her quickly and grabbing her by
the shoulders.
AUTHOR BIO:
Jaydeep Shah is the author of gripping romance, horror, and thriller stories. He also writes non-fiction pieces about inspirational topics related to social issues. He is the author of more than half a dozen books.
In addition to those books, Jaydeep releases young adult fiction stories under a pen name, JD Shah. The Shape-Shifting Serpents' Choice is his first young adult flash fiction written under that pseudo name and published online by Scarlet Leaf Review in their July 2019 issue.
When Shah is not writing, he wanders around Jersey City, spends quality time with friends and family, and cooks delicious food.
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