When 16-year-old Dominic Maybre receives a school assignment to create a family tree, he expects it to be a simple project-just a collection of names, dates, and photos. But as he begins his research, Dominic stumbles upon the dark and mysterious circumstances surrounding his father Quincy Maybre's death, a topic his family has always avoided.
Dominic's father died before he was born, and his mother has always been tight-lipped about what really happened. The few details she has shared never seemed to add up, but Dominic never questioned it-until now. As he delves into old family records, newspaper clippings, and forgotten letters, Dominic starts to uncover a web of secrets that shakes the foundation of everything he thought he knew about his family.
The deeper he digs, the more unsettling the story becomes. He finds contradictions in the official narrative, whispers of Quincy's involvement with dangerous people, and strange events leading up to his disappearance. Every new discovery raises more questions-questions that his mother and the rest of his family seem unwilling to answer.
As Dominic pieces together the puzzle of his father's life and death, he begins to realize that the truth might be more dangerous than he ever imagined. Someone doesn't want him to uncover the secrets buried in his family's past, and as he gets closer to the truth, Dominic finds himself facing threats and warnings that force him to decide how far he's willing to go to uncover the mystery.
What started as a simple class project quickly spirals into an obsession that consumes Dominic. He must confront the possibility that his family is hiding something far darker than he ever expected. With each new revelation, Dominic is forced to question everything he thought he knew-not just about his father, but about his own identity and the legacy he might inherit.
When someone dies mysteriously during a Psych experiment, Rhiannon becomes enmeshed in a conspiracy that includes both the survivors and the killer.
*****
Short on cash, Rhiannon Ford signs up to take part in a social psychology experiment based on group think. But when a participant dies under mysterious circumstances, and the story surrounding that death seems mired in conflicting lies, she's quickly drawn into a web of conspiracies that merge urban legends, rivalries, and the very psychological principle the test was about. When everyone is lying, how can Rhiannon find the truth?
*****
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