This is a little flashback for all of you to recall what happened and where are we now in the story, so we all could move further easily. Since, this is a thriller, recall your suspects and proofs. I tried my best to make this interesting.

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In prologue, we are introduced to our lead characters, Samara and her childhood friend/bully, Rodwin. His two best friends, Logan and Davis helps him by (jokingly) kidnapping her just so he could get his good luck kiss before leaving for war. Just like everytime, Samara fights back with words and pushes his love away. He takes his kiss anyway.

Now that Good luck kiss was required because the army of Kingdom of Walderstone is leaving to fight a war with Burnsley Kingdom in an abandoned village that falls between the borders of both nations,, and it goes by the name Sherfield--the ghost town.

After more than fortnight goes by, the army returns. Their own village which has the largest share of army-men celebrates Victory  in the  war and return of their successful warriors. But it is not very much of a celebration since many soldiers and reputed Warriors came back as dead bodies too.

Samara observes as her own father is alright but he has returned with her very injured brother, who was stabbed by seven-eight arrows. They immediately take him to the seer for his treatment. Samara's long-time love interest, Nathaniel who is also the son of Lord Commandant, is not much injured except for a wound on the leg that'll be healed soon. But he has lost his two of the best friends - Kent and Brody and mourns over it.

Samara's best friend, Violet also watches as her father is safe too. They both observes other childhood friends that have returned alive such as Rodwin's best mates, Logan who is not very much injured and Davis who is brutally injured that he is unconscious. Jeffrey, who is bestfriend of Samara's brother, Samuel is also fine. Rodwin is also alive and fine.

Now, with treatments and mourning and burying of the dead going on in the village, the environment is quite serious. The next morning, things turn worse as a body of man is found, ripped brutally near the well that is at the centre of the village. Terror spreads around the village and news reaches the King. He orders for the search party because the village is quite precious to him because of his army and also that his castle is near the village only.

Two ordinary brothers, Evos and Erasmus, go to the woods curiously to look for this animal who tortured the men that way. They hunt for it, but Evos ends up losing his own life. His brothers, Erasmus witnesses the whole kill and now, knows what the creature actually is.

On one side, Samara is moving ahead in her relationship with Nathaniel as he comes to see Samuel if he has recovered. They also get along well when woods and other products are distributed by the king. Rodwin is obviously jealous. Logan and Violet too get along well. Davis is still unconscious.

Now, Samara visits the seer often because of her brother's medicines and randomly, seer tells her about the danger that lurks around their village. She basically hints her about the Soldier of sins that is hiding. Samara is quite shocked but again, she is distracted by other happenings.

Now, Samuel is recovering and joins back the training sessions. He gets back with his mate, Jeffery and finds out that the posts are to be given to the soldiers who did well in the war. On the other side, Erasmus reaches the castle to inform the King about the creature that killed his brother. The word 'werewolf' roams around the army and some of the soldiers are behaving strange about it. For example, Samuel behaves mysteriously in his own home, giving weird answers to Samara's curious questions.

The King organises a function to reward fhe achievers in the war on the nigh of full moon knowingly so they could catch the werewolf hiding in the soldiers. All the soldiers reach the castle, even Davis who is now awake and recovering. Samuel behaves weirdly, quite similar to the traits the seer had mentioned to Samara.

The posts are awarded to the deserving candidates. It looks like that Samuel who was given the archery post, is not happy with it. Since, he needed more.

Nathaniel is angry too because he is jealous of Rodwin who took the post of advisor which was the most reputed. Consequently, he doesn't behave well with Samara, ends up pushing her.

For the first time, Davis shows a hint of his liking towards Samara by asking her for dance and she accepts. Though, the main highlight of the function becomes the Prince story and his dance offer to Samara. He convinces her to give some attention to Rodwin. Samara does as he says and it all ends up in the beginning of Samara and Rodwin's love.

But On the other hand, Violet and  Logan finds out the claw marks. Things get messy as Logan tell the king about it and guests are trapped in the hall. The ten soldiers of the story helps each other by not letting the King doubt the three soldiers who were out of the hall when the growls were heard.

Reaching home, Samara is horrified because Nathaniel, Samuel and Jeffery, all three who stayed out of the hall weren't well. Nathaniel had gotten fever even. At night, Rodwin comes to see her in her room since Samara had almost lost her life if hadn't been Violet saving her from the beast.

In the morning, Samara returns from the lane after an argument with Rodwin and finds her brother being taken by the Warriors. He is been summoned to the castle and her neighbors all around watches the scene.

Her own father is hurt and disappointed at Samuel being one of the suspects. At night, Lord Lester beats her door, begging her to help him find Rodwin who has disappeared. He tells her that he was seen going towards the woods and they both follows. At Forest, they find Nathaniel ready with his knife, torch and goat meet. Before they can even doubt him, they hear growls.

Nathaniel doesn't forget to show his hatred towards Samara's new bonding with Rodwin. It came out that Logan and Erasmus werr assigned the duty to search the beast that night. They were prepared to kill him. But hearing the growls, they end up founding an unconscious Rodwin whose stomach is scratched by claws and Samuel sitting beside him.

Samuel explains that he was being taken to the castle when the beast attacked the men and he too ran away, saving his own life when all of a sudden he found Rodwin. Logan also find Rodwin's sword that was bloodied too.

He runs towards the village and find Samara, Lord Lester and Nathaniel. The scenes ends up in them bringing Rodwin home. The seer treats him while Samuel and Nathaniel doubts each other. Logan and Erasmus are still confused as who to doubt. Samara is heartbroken at seeing Rodwin's health.

Next morning, Samara's brother is taken again by the Warriors. Samuel fights the allegations and his own father's lack of support too. But when Nathaniel entered the scene to convince the villagers that Samuel truly could be the beast, Samara burst out in tears. A broken Samuel doesn't speak and goes willingly with the warriors to the castle.

Samara faces glares and stares while filling water from the well when Rodwin helps her through it and taunts her father that he needs to believe in his son. The taunt affects perfectly when Lord Hampton (her father) goes to the castle.

Rodwin is provided two days holidays to rest his wounds. While Violet and Samara plans to meet Logan, so they could discuss about the scene that happened on 'Thirteenth day of war'. In short, the story that Prince had narrated in the function. They revise it. The ten soldiers according to them are— Rodwin, Nathaniel, Logan, Samuel, Jeffery, Preston, Davis, Earl, Lori and Brody. They have concluded that the beaten solder was none other than her brother, Samuel.

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Please discuss here if I left something. It will help the other readers to revise.

I will delete this part after updating at least two chapters. We have reached the half of the story. What else?

Ah yes! Don't forget to mention your own theories or suspects here.

Will be updating very soon.

Love,
Nikki ❤