Secrets & Lies
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Last published Sat, Aug 8, 2026
Valentine's death leaves her daughters Sabrina and Maria with unanswered questions - why had she kept them separated their whole lives? If not for fate's intervention, they might not have ever found each other. For Maria, a heavy burden is lifted with her mother's passing. Then there's that nagging suspicion that maybe Valentine "found" her because she had been ill. Why had she come looking for Maria when the one she had kept by her side was Sabrina? There were far too many questions that the dead refused to answer. That is until she came upon her mother's journals.
They were the only possessions she had when she voluntarily entered the long-term care facility. She had asked them to be put into storage. Yet another secret she had kept from Maria, this long-term care facility where she lived and not the apartment they shared. If she hadn't lied, maybe she wouldn't have been desperate to find a roommate. And she never would have met Sabrina or Tony.
Valentine's journal sends Sabrina back to the Davenport brothers as she desperately searches for the truth behind her daughter's death. Maria finally has the answer to why Valentine abandoned her and then came back. Except the truth is uglier than she could have imagined. It startles and frightens her. Then she comes face to face with her niece, Sabrina's daughter, and starts to understand that some secrets and lies are born out of a desperate need to protect the ones we love.
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