![]() ![]() They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a flu victim. She has no doubt Helen killed the man―Dorothy’s father―in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. 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 for 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 a fashionable women’s 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 Iowa after their parents’ deaths. ![]() With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America’s last deadly flu pandemic.Ĭolorado, 1918. ![]()
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