Chapter 17: Fire’s Blend
Barnum’s Booktuary
Aviary Road
3:22 P.M.
Barnum’s Booktuary operated as an independent store by Beverly and Beatrice Barnum, sisters from London who moved to the United States during the 2000 millennium scare and opened the bookshop in Hurricane Bay. The place felt cozy, clean, and sparked fame for the two murders and suicide that occurred there in 1998 by a Mr. Richard Black, when the store was previously called Black’s Bookshop. Black shot his wife in the back of the head, then his girlfriend, Madeline Madcar, and hung himself thereafter in the bookstore’s children’s section. The Barnum sisters had not fallen under the bookstore’s curse and were surviving as small business owners. Until today.
Neither Barnum sister knew that Margo Pagino could be labeled as
