Sunday, August 7, 2016

Field Mouse: The Price of Innocence







Field Mouse: The Price of Innocence
By
A. E. Lawrence


Taffeta Moonrose is born a bastard child and raised in captivity like an animal after her mother is killed.  Suddenly set free when her captor, Charles Willoughby, dies of a heart attack, she is left to fend for herself in a hostile world and begins stealing food from the towns folks.  It is by her cunning and the secluded farm to which she can retreat that allows her to evade capture for so long. 
However, when Matt and Toby Claybourne arrive in the area on vacation and learn of the wild girl, Toby becomes determined to find and adopt her.  When they finally do find her and gain her trust, their relationship changes their lives in ways unforeseen.
Desperate for an ally in their quest to adopt Taffeta, the Claybournes seek the help of a police officer, John Hiller.  However, they are not aware that he had raped Taffeta’s mother, Nancy, and is the girl’s biological father.  But the truth is revealed during the first meeting between Hiller and Taffeta.  He is shocked when he realizes that the girl is his daughter, and when Toby accuses him of rape, he panics, pulls his gun and accidently shoots the girl. 
Taffeta survives the wound, and the Claybournes are finally granted custody of her.
Hiller is sent to prison but is determined to break out and track down the girl.  In his twisted mind he feels that he has a right to claim her as his daughter, and he is willing to do anything to have her.
Although Taffeta wants to fit in with new life and rules she has never known, there are those who would ostracize her because she is a social misfit.  As she struggles with the restrictions placed on her by society, her naivety makes her easy prey for boys who take advantage of her innocence and abuse her sexually.  

Although Matt and Toby do their best to guide Taffeta through her most trying times, they can only hope for the best as their daughter’s life spirals out of control.



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The Stairway to Never






The Stairway to Never
By
A. E. Lawrence

 Josef Barrington becomes a wealthy man because he takes heed of the voice in the night.  When he obeys the command to build a special stairway in his mansion, he thinks the stairway is another step toward his destiny.  However, it soon becomes apparent that the stairs have become the device of his destruction. 
On a trip to Cleveland, Ohio, Peter White is flying his airplane over East Ridgeville when he spots an old, ill-kept mansion.  When he makes inquiries about the property, he learns that it’s known as the Barrington Haunted Castle.  Thinking he might purchase the property, he takes his girlfriend, Claire Whitley, to East Ridgeville to see the realtor.  There, they hear that Josef Barrington had killed his wife and three children almost a hundred years ago and was duly hanged.   
Peter and Claire go out to inspect the mansion and discover a strange stairway in the living room.  Although they think of the stairs as just a whim of a crazy old man, they are forced to change their minds one stormy night when the stairway becomes a gateway to the bizarre.
        They soon realize that Josef Barrington did not kill his family.  The stairway and what lay beyond were instrumental in their disappearance.  And Peter and Claire are about to meet the same fate. 

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The Angry Spirit of Never Moore






The Angry Spirit of Never Moore

    By

A.   E. Lawrence

Phillip Everette Moore is a wealthy man who loses his wife and two daughters in a tragic accident in 1846.  He becomes a recluse and loses his will to live.  However, he leaves his entire estate, including his mansion, Ever Moore, to a compassionate psychiatrist who operates a small insane asylum.  Dr. Dinston turns Ever Moore into a state-of-the-art asylum that treats its inmates humanely. 
As time passes, new administrators operate Ever Moore according to Dr. Dinston’s tenets.  However, when Dr. Willison takes the reins, the quality of care deteriorates drastically when he begins misappropriating the operating funds.  And the new staff he hires are nothing more than sadistic thugs who enjoy beating the inmates.  Eventually, the asylum becomes known as Never Moore by the despairing inmates.  And when the collective anguish of the inmates radiates out through the walls into the night, the spirit of Phillip Moore rises from his grave to exact retribution on those who would desecrate his beloved Ever Moor.
Marly Manchester is a fifteen-year-old girl who has been brought to Ever Moore by her uncle, Dr. Willison, after her family is killed in an accident.  The doctor wants to dispose of the girl and gain control of her sizable inheritance.  His plans are working until Marly commits a murder so bizarre that Inspector Markus Mackenzie can’t bring himself to bring charges against her.  And to complicate his investigation, several more inexplicable killings take place in at the asylum in a matter of days.
      Markus and his wife, Stella, become enmeshed in a struggle to solve the mysterious murders while trying to find a way to absolve Marly of murder.  But they have no way of knowing that they are dealing with the angry spirit of Never Moore. 



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