Synopsis: The Innkeeper -- AND -- Molly's Story (working title)

THE INNKEEPER (comic fantasy)

Ginny Marie Holtzinger thought the job description sounded normal enough. WANTED: honest, hard worker able to deal with the day to day of hospitality industry and many curve balls. After the past year, Ginny thought she could deal with anything so long as it meant a job. Little did she know that ‘curve balls’ was meant in a more metaphysical than metaphorical sense.

A girl desperate for employment and needing to make a clean start of it for reasons she won’t share wouldn’t endear most people to an employer, but Daphne Ambrosia knows an honest soul when he sees one and hires Ginny on the spot to help run the ---- Inn.

Employment and housing secure Ginny just starts to relax when everything begins going wrong. Daphne promptly leaves for an indefinite amount of time leaving Ginny in charge of a hotel she’s barely even taken a tour of, with no help except for the gardener/handyman/resident pain in the ass and a cat who dispenses nothing but sarcasm and cryptic advice – a week prior and Ginny would have thought a talking cat was the weird part, but that was before she met the guests and life started getting stranger than fiction.

MOLLY'S STORY (mainstream/literary fiction)

Stephanie moved to Ann Arbor, a town she'd lived in but never thought to return to, to live in the same apartment building her sister lived in as an undergrad at the University of Michigan in order to rediscover (or reinvent) the stories of her sister's life that she missed out on during their years apart, stories that Molly is no longer around to tell.