The Veiled Lady
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Months after The "Scullabogue Massacre" a new evil has risen during the beginning of a cold winter in 1798. A series of mysterious murders around a small town in Country Wexford Ireland has begun, the chatter around town has struck the Irish again. A young widowed women is rushing to leave the country with her wealthy Lover a Noblemen who is on the run after refusing to take on the estate of his recently deceased father.
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