Patrolling for Indiana Ku Klux Klan's Last Ghost
Book 1 of 3
After the Great War of 1914-1918 and the return of America’s Military from combat, along with battle casualties and the deadly Spanish Flu Pandemic, came stateside a great fear that Huns, Immigrants, Reds, Catholics, Jews, Blacks, Socialists, Bolshevists and Union Leaders would destroy American Life.
To prevent Indiana from being dominated and culturally changed by immigrants, in 1920, the Ku Klux Klan sent recruiters to Hoosier towns and cities, klansmen ultimately marching under cover of masks and hoods and burning crosses. Into this festering anger, enter immigrants Pat Dun and three sisters, Agnes, Ann and Colleen Booley. A catastrophic house fire in 1926 takes the lives of two sisters, Pat Dun able only to recover Agnes’ and Ann’s bodies from cremation. Pat and Colleen marry in 1927 and bring five children to grow up near Prairie, a town of intolerance, Dun family acceptance only in 1955, when, while saving from fire the life of Saw Mill owner Mr. Sevelege, Pat is killed by shrapnel from an exploding gasolene tank, Colleen succumbing to shock and a fatal heart attack.
Daughter Mary Dun, nineteen, newly licensed Registered Nurse, isn’t long employed at Stone Nursing Home when an elderly resident embraces her, calling her ‘Colleen, you come back,’ then revealing, at Klan order, he set the occupied house fire that took the lives of two of the three Booley sisters.
With the backing of Head Nurse Ginger, Mary and brother Mark, age thirteen, initiate an investigation into a very cold case of arson murder. As evidence grows, Mary calls for help from her three older brothers, all former U. S. Army soldiers to patrol the town of Prairie for Ku Klux Klan’s Last Ghost.