The Parlor Girl's Guide

SCARLETT OHARA MEETS THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOOA hard-edged country girl enlists the living and the dead to guide her past family tragedy and forge her escape from a secluded Southern brothel. After her fathers murder and mothers abonnement a merciless landowner forces Molly Lingo to work in a rural Alabama hunting lodge that doubles as an exclusive whorehouse. Molly the feisty tough teenage daughter of a hand-to-mouth tobacco farmer employs a mysterious specter and a troubled gambler Cotton Arnold to assist her in breaking away from the unrelenting grip of the sharecropper culture. Set at the beginning of the Jazz Ages promising sweep across America Mollys story depicts both the shocking brutality of the landlord class and a young womans determination not to be treated as a second-class citizen. This energetic historical fiction offers supernatural thrills and the poignant transformation of a metaphysical coming-of-age tale.