Ramona, a battered wife, plans to kill her husband and make it look like an accident. After his death, while going through his belongings, she finds papers he has written that make no sense. When her mama commits suicide, she finds her mama’s diaries. The diaries begin just before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Ramona is amazed at what she learns about her mama, the sheriff, and the whole town of Addison, Georgia, where she lives.
Ramona is falling in love with the sheriff, but is terrified he will discover that her husband’s death wasn’t an accident. The town’s wealthiest man wants to buy the shack that Ramona and her husband, Jake, lived in, and is willing to pay double what it’s worth. The doctor that Ramona works for is trying to get her to leave town. Her landlord is found snooping in Ramona’s apartment. She doesn’t know who she can trust.
Focus. Focus!
And murder hornets invade her small town! And Ramona’s murdered husband rises from the grave as a Revenant, seeking revenge! And a patient at the doctor’s office is really an alien! And..and…there’s an Old West gold mine beneath the shack AND her apartment..and they find Jimmy Hoffa in there!!
This stream of consciousness is more like a dribble of the unconscious.
Is this an excerpt from those papers Ramona’s husband wrote?
Ramona’s sister, Hester, from Arizona, hasn’t known her since she lost her on a trip to Verona. She tried to phone her, but Ramona’d outgrown her, so she could only get through to Dr Rita Magruder, the local sharpshooter, who’d showed her a note from Dan, a man with a van delivering fruit to the local Hooters, saying how Ramona was now persona non grata. Impressed by Hester, Dan ran to doctor Victor Proctor to explain that a pain in her brain had made her insane, and that if left unchecked they’d expect her to become a defector after dumping Jake in the lake and making her escape to settle in a shtetl in Lviv, there to live day and night with her knight in shining armour: a charming llama farmer called [etc.]
And then?