Showing results for "a legacy of secrets" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Kate Earnshaw’s father’s suicide has left many unanswered questions. The police declared it a suicide, but she can't bring herself to believe it. The more she discovers, however, the more Kate wonders whether she ever really knew him. Her father never explained why he let his childhood home in eastern Colorado fall into ruin or why he kept the property a secret. And he never told Kate about his close friendship with Evan Hastings, the handsome and somewhat puzzling man who lives on the property near the abandoned house.

Vivian Rose thought she burned her family’s dirty little secret the day she laid her father to rest. Only years later, when her brother is found murdered, it seems that secret might have been the very thing that got her brother killed. Now, Vivian finds herself in the middle of an internet game that she doesn’t understand and the target of a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to make her his.

In present-day Cambridge, Abi, a recently ordained priest of the Church of England, is appointed to a notoriously difficult parish. The priest in charge is the charismatic but fundamentalist Kier. He objects to her mysticism, her practice of healing in particular. When she sees a vision of a congregation in an old church, Kier accuses her of witchcraft, but Abi soon sees more visions; an entire Roman family history dark with betrayal and a promise of bloody revenge.

WHEN ANNE HANSON'S DAD FIRST ASKED her to investigate the secret past of his parents, little did she know what she was getting into. For two decades, despite all her digging, she failed to unearth even the tiniest speck of evidence that the families of her grandparents, Frank and Ida Hanson, had ever existed. If her quest were a detective novel, its title would have been, "The Case of the Missing Ancestors."

Ich wurde getäuscht. Mit jeder kleinen Lüge, mit jedem kleinen Geheimnis. Die Nachricht, dass ihre biologische Mutter, die sie nie kennengelernt hat, ihr ein großes Vermögen vererbt, trifft Julie Penn vollkommen unvorbereitet. Um das Erbe antreten zu können, muss sie allerdings Teil des einflussreichen Familienunternehmens ihrer Mutter werden - eine Entscheidung, die ihr ganzes Leben verändert.

"Die Welt ist eine einzige Lüge. Tut mir leid, dass du es so erfahren musstest." Julie Penn weiß nicht mehr, wem sie glauben oder vertrauen kann. Seit sie vorübergehend ein Teil des einflussreichen Familienunternehmens ihrer verstorbenen Mutter geworden ist, wurde ihr Leben vollkommen auf den Kopf gestellt. Und als sie auf Caleb Bonham traf - attraktiv, arrogant und ebenfalls Erbe des Unternehmens -, wurden auch ihre Gefühle ins Chaos gestürzt.