The Perils of Marie Louise

Deloris Forbes. Five Star (ME), $26.95 (232pp) ISBN 978-1-59414-083-9

A contemporary fairy tale by DeLoris Stanton Forbes (One Man Died on Base), in which beautiful Mary Louise on her 13th birthday dons the Snodgrass Girdle, a gift from Grandmere, matriarch of the Snodgrass clan; bizarre and fatal consequences soon follow.

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