Cryptic
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Last published Sat, Nov 30, 2019
Francesca Blackwood is the daughter of the most notorious man in society today. A world of crime and counterfeit lies bare at her doorstep, yet she has lived a sheltered life, and her safety has never once been challenged before.
That is until the death of her father, her sole protector, places Francesca as the next target of an organisation determined to disintegrate the last of the Blackwood empire and to reap its bloody fortune.
Her fate depends on a series of cryptic clues left behind by her father - the key to restarting a new life and eventually claiming her due inheritance. However, when she begins to forge real relationships for the first time in her life, she will soon learn that not all puzzles can be so easily solved.
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