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Here are the synopses for Tracy's thriller novel Hope House and her two screenplays. More to come soon.

All are seeking publication or production.

 

  
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   HOPE HOUSE:
91k words, 364 pages


When Gloria Hanes-Carpenter's ultrasound showed a lifeless fetus she refused to accept it. She swore she felt the baby kick. But no one would listen. Dr. Tad Boucher forcibly sedated her as her husband insisted she accept the truth. "Let it go. Our baby is dead," he had said with tears in his eyes. But she knew...Her baby was alive. After the trauma she spent time in a mental hospital, lost her husband, lost her job, and contracted an infection that left her barren.

Six years later, Gloria, healed mentally and physically and now working for a major publisher, receives a phone call from marrow donor center which reports she's a match for a five-year-old girl. She donates her marrow to the leukemia stricken girl and then discovers that the girl is near genetic match to her and  was adopted. And she looks just like Gloria!

Her old paranoia returns. Could this be her child?

She flies to Miami where the adoption agency who placed the girl is located. Gloria then begins a quest to find the truth and to prove that this is the child who was stolen from her womb. She hires private eye Kurt Malone, a man with a mysterious past, who ties the adoption agency to a New England crime family, the Puglisis. He begins to believe her far-fetched tale after a series of violent attempts on her life.

Meanwhile, in Haiti, Martine Jean-Baptiste, a native a sold into servitude as a child, struggles as one of the many young surrogates who routinely gives birth to white infants. They are in turn smuggled into the U.S. by the man they all fear: Mick Puglisi. He has a reputation for butchery and, throughout the story, kills people and threatens the girls with expulsion from the compound, Maison D'Espoir. Losing their jobs as surrogates would mean shame to the their families and often starvation and death.

In a taut climax...

Sorry, can't give away the climax. You'll have to wait and read the book.  

 
       
    TRAPPED

Women's suspense thriller, WGAW registered, 105 pages

Logline: 

Running from the façade of a perfect husband, an abducted woman becomes ensnared in "be careful what you wish for" gone awry.

 

 

  
    GARRISON HOUSE

Horror screenplay, WGAW Registered 105 pages-  

Logline: A young woman's temp job takes a grisly permanent turn when her evil elderly employers try to steal her soul.