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The year is 1972. Nothing ever happens in the middle of nowhere town called Plainfield, but when Freddy Heddy Hardcrumble misses her shift at the rundown bowling alley one night, the whole town is shaken. No one could have imagined the strange place in which Freddy Heddy Hardcrumble found herself when she woke up.

This is not a happy story or a romance filled with love. This is the bitter tale of a desolate existence that straddled the threshold between psychosis and evil and then fell over. Within this solemn audiobook rest the final accounts of Birdie Nook.

Fleeing an abusive home in famine-scarred Ireland, a desperate young girl ventures alone across the ocean — chasing the fragile hope of finding her only remaining family (an estranged Uncle) and a future she'd only been allowed to imagine. America is meant to be her salvation, but when she finds her Uncle's mansion, it becomes a gilded cage. The girl learns that wealth can hide rot, as she finds herself trapped under the watchful control of the house's volatile master: a man whose charm masks a growing darkness.

Part 2: 1970's: After Freddy Heddy Hardcrumble goes missing in the little, middle of nowhere town called Plainfield, Orlow, a cop from the big city gets forced on the case and faces losing everything in order to find Freddy.