The Wrong Excuse

In the winter of 1960, small-town piano teacher Lucy Lay enters the Rich family, believing she has come for a simple tutoring job. She soon discovers the position is only a façade, and with no way out, she is pressed into the family’s arrangement to disguise herself as a princess from a mysterious nation and marry the family heir. Inside the hush of that vast winter manor, desire gathers like heat beneath ice. The secret she uncovers binds them in ways neither can escape. What begins as confinement becomes a dangerous pull that reshapes the course of her life.

While fighting for survival in the wilds of the Northeast, a drifter unites with a mysterious veteran to expose the truth of America’s demise.

A funeral director who moonlights as a stand-up comedian must manage four ghostly hecklers who sabotage his daily life and performances.