The House of the Broken Hands

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.