Laurie Ezpeleta

Buried Mistakes: a Cry for Justice from Beyond the Grave Laurie Ezpeleta

Publisher Marketing: Buried Mistakes, a tragic ghost story of forbidden love and betrayal, based on true stories of women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. Buried Mistakes is a story of two women that spans the century and the globe, from the Pacific Northwest to Asia, revealing tales of love and war. After the break-up of her marriage, Meg Evans moves to an island in the Pacific Northwest with her kids to start a new life. Soon strange things begin to happen. She has violent nightmares, hears voices, and has intense physical reactions to the sinister tree that looms tall in her yard. She soon discovers that she shares her home with a previous occupant, the restless, earth-bound spirit of a young Korean girl named Kimiko. Meg is anxious to begin her new life but finds she must first set Kimiko free. With the help of a Spirit Releasement Therapist, Meg uncovers the girl's brutal past as a Comfort Woman and reveals the atrocities she suffered at the hands of the Japanese military. During WWII the Empire of Japan set up a system for sex slavery. Thousands of women in Asia were forced into prostitution. Buried Mistakes is a fictional tale based on the real-life stories told by the last surviving Comfort women.