Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" is a literary classic that leaves many readers with a single, lingering question: what happened to Ned Hale? Join friends Edward Rochester, Blanche Ingram, Horatio, Starbuck, Billy Bibbit, and Simon and Noah Eastman on their quest to find what really happened to their friend. "The Search for Ned Hale" is a fun, fresh adventure that explores all of your favorite literary characters and their roles in the modern world. Their timeless journey of friendship and the search for closure will leave you wanting more, and wishing that maybe you had actually read the books when Mrs. Stops told you to. Note: this is a story I wrote for a final project for in English. It is an alternate universe story with crossover characters from Jane Eyre, Hamlet, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Moby Dick, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Ethan Frome.