The White Halls
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Set during late Victorian England, Ethel is forced to marry the insufferable and obnoxious Harold Meriwether as by her father's wishes to uphold her family social ranking.
However, Ethel plans of running abroad and stumbles across the forsaken Myrtle castle, where she meets the most uncanny lover.
Nevertheless she falls in love with the striking and pleasant apparition named George. Harold soon becomes suspicious of Ethel's unforseen vanishing to her secret whereabouts.
Is Ethel's love for George forbidden by the barricade between the living and the dead?
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