The Broken Shade

An old Denver home holds the shade of a haunted past.

It’s 1986 and waitress Freja O’Connell is remodeling a century-old house in a seedy part of Denver known as Five Points. Dead broke and needing money to restore the old Victorian charmer, she elects to take a job slinging cocktails at a local men’s club, marking the beginning of her other-worldly adventures.

“Back in the sixties, when I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a successful interior designer, hosting fabulous cocktail parties...