O Is For Opportunity and...

O is for opportunity and Orchestrated Murders. Presented with an opportunity, Leona Augustine is ready to travel to America. She had no choice but to accept. Her mother had sold her into servitude as an indentured servant, a seamstress, to Kevin Kratz the owner of, what she would discover, a hoarder's museum. The House On Rime Falls was like none other she had ever seen. She was to repair and refresh the clothing of the animated mannequins in every exhibit.

Leona's real mission was to find her sister, Alka, who had been indentured under the same family in order to provide money for the heart surgery Leona so desperately needed to save her life. Leona was to repay that debt and bring Alka home to Poland before their mother succumbed to the Black Lung disease that took their coal miner father's life years before.

What Leona discovers is she is a prisoner. All the exhibits and her quarters are locked. She is locked into her rooms let out only to work on the exhibits which are also under lock and key. She is allowed to go by chauffeured limousine, to a fabric shop to get the yard goods she needs to do her job with the exhibits.

When she finds her sister, the mystery of her disappearance is an opportunity ad a horror Leona could never have anticipated in her wildest nightmare.

All is not as it seems at The House On Rime Falls in Orchestrated Murders. Release date, November 1, 2012.

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