โ Scribed by S. A. Prentiss
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In a small, suburban town, the murder of a local high school student rocks one woman's family to its core --and threatens to expose her deepest, darkest secrets in the process.
After a lifetime of hardship, Jessica Thornton finally has the life she's dreamed of: a new marriage to a realtor with burgeoning success; a daughter whose athleticism has won her a scholarship to college; and a freshly-secured grant from her bank to finally complete her own higher education.
Her life today is a complete reversal from the not-too-distant past, when the death of her first husband left her penniless and desperate to provide for her then-newborn child. But after the murder of her children's high school classmate, a series of disturbances brings Jessica to question whether her dreams ever actually came true, or whether they've just been delusions all along . . .
In the days after the murder, suspicion creeps in at every corner, beginning with...
Murder -- Fiction
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