The House of the Broken Hands
| Author | : Barbara O’Donnell |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 2011-04-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781462014859 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1462014852 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (852 Downloads) |
Download or read book The House of the Broken Hands written by Barbara O’Donnell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Narciste Duprey and why did he build a mansion on Poverty Ridge in Sacramento, California? Why did his beauti ful wife, Velvulott a Gomez, hate him so much? Why did the children born into this house have broken, shatt ered fi ngers? Why, to this day, does the old mansion sit dark and empty? The House of the Broken Hands is a frightening ghost story about the people and the lives they lived in this mansion, and what happened to them. Set in Sacramento in the 1990s, a journalist who lives in the neighborhood becomes curious about the old house with no signs of life. She is determined to learn its history, and aft er hearing the bare bones of the story from an old woman who grew up in the neighborhood, she is compelled to dig deeper into the houses past.
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