Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring the woman's small daughter, Dorothy. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at Neusteter's department store, share a small, neat house and each finds a local beau – for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Ohio after their parents' death. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver's schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. World War I is raging overseas, but it's the home front battling for survival. Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar, Little Souls is a compelling tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most.Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America's last deadly flu pandemicĬolorado, 1918.

As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from the murder investigation and the flu.

Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiance 'over there'. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a victim of the flu. She has no doubt Helen killed the man-Dorothy's father-in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America's last deadly flu pandemicĬolorado, 1918.

Little Souls by Sandra Dallas