Well folks, I realize it's been AGES since I last posted on this board, but I still drop in and read the threads. Anyway, I am working on a story and wanted opinions and advice on it.
It's about a young woman who finds a mysterious cotton dress which she plans on using for a figure skating costume. It looks like it is from the 1950s, but what she finds out is that the dress has been altered over the years, but never destroyed. The dress is actually from 1918, and was worn by an Imperial Russian skating star. My plan is that the dress is cursed, it transports the heroine to 1918 and events in the skater's life, and as she finds out more about her, she wonders who could have killed her. There are several possibilities, several people could have motives to kill her. What is eventually discovered is that the skater's husband had something to do with the telegram that gave the order to execute the Imperial Family... Another twist on this is that Liza's brother was, in fact, the Officer (I know he was a fictitious creation by the Bolsheviks but in the story I think I can take a little artistic license) and she decides to warn him, but her husband finds out, thus giving him reason to be the one who actually kills her. So the heroine Kaitlyn finds all this out in an effort to save herself from the same fate that Liza had. There is a MAJOR twist in the end that I cannot give away for the sake of those who want to read it, but I've said basically all that needs to be said.
It's probably a pretty sloppy plotline, but that's what I am thinking so far for it. Any questions, comments, advice is welcome.
