Results for Stories About Characters With Unknown Or Mysterious Backstories
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A man returns to New Hampshire after years of hiding from his past to handle his dead father's affairs. When he encounters an old friend-turned-enemy and a local girl goes missing, the past he tried to run away from comes to light in a heart-racing turn of events.
In an alternative reality where crimes are punished with memory erasure, a man must settle back into the old life he does not remember as he tries to piece together what crime he committed.
After spending his adult life under the shadow of his father, a former NSA whistleblower, a man comes to terms with his complicated family history and what he wants for his own future.
Version 1. A woman periodically travels back in time, only returning to her present timeline when she dies. In a present-day trip to a museum, she finds her histories rewritten through the male lens. Version 2. A woman time-traveler who periodically and involuntarily lives a whole other life in the past struggles to adapt to the present. Along with an eroding friendship and marriage, she becomes fixated with the erasure of women—and veracity—in our telling of history.
After a chance encounter with a mysterious teenage girl, a lonely woman gets pulled into the girl's sinister family drama.
A local detective investigates the murder of a businessman who returned to town after years of being away. The detective holds a conflict of interest in the case: his sister was swindled years ago by the victim.
After years of running with dangerous crowds, a man gets his life together — but one night, driving home to his wife with his infant son in the backseat, the man encounters someone from his past to whom he owes money.
A thirty-year-old deputy in rural Ohio finds the body of a drug dealer hidden off the side of the road. He finds a way to frame his criminal father and brother for the crime—unable as he is to arrest them for the plethora of other crimes they have committed—all without leaving any trace of his involvement.
Four years after being fired from her secret-agent job training killers, a woman has built a new life for herself as a high school principle but retains old enemies. After an attempt on her life one morning, she learns the school's baseball coach has a similar past, and the two put their old skills to use in their new, mundane lives.
A shattered family grieves their missing infant boy's unsolved abduction, and are haunted decades following the crime.
