A Powerful Secret
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Last published Sun, Jul 1, 2018
Lucy is an orphan, who as lived her life inside a protective shell. Her Grandpa was her only living relative and only escape. He showed her things from all over the world, an elephant tusk from Africa, a valuable gemstone from France, paintings from Italy and a jewelry from India. He only really owned one thing from London - a small leather green book. Lucy was never allowed to speak of it or even touch it but on the night her grandfather dies, it arrives through the postbox of the orphanage. All its pages, completely empty.
She doesn't understand why police are bothering so much, what could her Grandpa have done?
Soon she realises the man she knew was very different to the man her father knew. Very very different.
Alexander Riley had only one redemption in Lucy, and in his elderly life. He died a monster in most people's eyes but can Lucy change their perpective with her own actions? Or will the blood she shares with her Grandpa never relent?
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