Little Souls [Audiobook]

Description

Sandra Dallass Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver mid Americas last deadly flu pandemic. Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but its the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denvers schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Ohio after their parents death. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at Neusteters department store, share a small, neat house and each finds a local beau - for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring the womans small daughter, Dorothy. Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. She has no doubt Helen killed the man--Dorothys father--in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a victim of the flu. Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiance over there. As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from the murder investigation and the flu. Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar, Little Souls is a compelling tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martins Press