Dessie Prater

Scandalmongers Dessie Prater

With this book, one may read two compelling stories. Each about a young woman who is ridiculed by a scandalmonger. In the first, Tom becomes a scandalmonger: before his rich father dies, he changes his will, turning the ranch and all it's holdings over to Madison, his hospice nurse. Although Madison tries to tell Tom that she will eventually turn the ranch back over to him. Tom convinces the ranch hands, many of whom who had been born and raised on the ranch, that Madison is going to sell the ranch, and if she does, they will all lose their homes as well as their jobs. In the second story, my younger, beautiful sister, Sylvie, becomes convinced that I am the reason that an older couple had changed their minds and have backed out of selling a house to Sylvie and her fiance. So Sylvie becomes a scandalmonger when she tells her future father-in-law that I am lazy, that I run around all night, then lay around all day, forcing her to do all the house and yard work. Because of Sylvie's lies, I become homeless, and I am forced to seek refuge in an old, abandoned farmhouse, and not realizing at the time that it is "haunted".