The Secret Journal
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A life that has been kept a secret. A family divided. A journal that holds the key to the past and a man who will stop at nothing to make sure that the past stays buried.
Rosemary Harrison, a twenty year old Boston Socialite, searches for adventure and freedom from the restrictions of high society where a woman's only purpose is to get married and have children. Her father orders her to marry Simon Hastings, a business associate that she hadn't even heard of until that night and when Rosemary refused advocating for her teaching job in Anderson Corner, Texas, she is given a choice, marry Simon or take the job and be cut off from her family. Torn, Rosemary seeks solace in the only place that has offered her peace in the past, the attic. Only this time she doesn't just find dusty old furnishings, hidden in a corner she discovers the journal of her Aunt, who like Rosemary was a teacher and dreamed of adventure outside the confines of society. Hidden between the aged pages, Rosemary discovers a secret so thrilling and so horrifying it jostles her reserve to go to Anderson Corner, Texas and to mend the broken pieces of the past even if it meant saying good bye to her family forever.
A scorned suitor, Simon Hastings is determined to have Rosemary for his bride and is willing to do everything in his power to find her and bring her back to Boston.
Rosemary is thrown into a world that she knows nothing about, she learns about love, hate, revenge and pain. Will she be able to mend the past and bring her family back together?
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