House of the Broken Hands

Who was Narciste Duprey and why did he build a mansion on Poverty Ridgein 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 thepeople and the lives they lived in this mansion, and what happenedto them. Set in Sacramento in the 1990s, a journalist who lives in theneighborhood becomes curious about the old house with no signs of life.She is determined to learn its history, and aft er hearing the bare bonesof the story from an old woman who grew up in the neighborhood, she iscompelled to dig deeper into the houses past.