SummaryThe powerful Quintrell family of New Mexico has spent
decades in the public eye. Now the recent death of the
clan's patriarch, a former U.S. senator, has placed his son,
Governor Josh Quintrell, squarely in the spotlight as he
prepares his run for the highest political office in the
land. It is not a good time to be rattling skeletons in the
family's closets.
Researching personal histories isn't just Carolina "Carly"
May's profession, it's her passion. When the governor's
eccentric Aunt Winifred invites Carly into the Quintrells'
private Taos compound to compile a genealogical record of
the illustrious residents, she can hardly believe her good
luck. But digging into the past is raising troubling
questions about the would-be president's private life, his
late father and catatonic mother, and the grisly street
crime that left his notorious drug-addicted sister dead. And
it soon becomes frighteningly apparent that the motivation
of the dotty old woman who hired Carly might be something
more akin to revenge—and that someone is determined to
remove the inquisitive genealogist from the picture by any
means necessary.
As a dark world of twisted passions and depraved crimes
slowly opens up before Carly, she realizes that there is no
one whom she dares to trust—perhaps least of all Dan
Duran, a dangerous and haunted mystery man who's somehow
tied to the Quintrells' past. But she will need an ally to
survive the terrible secrets a father carried to the grave
and an even more devastating evil that lurks among the
living—because following the bloodlines of the wealthy
and power-hungry can be a bloody business ... and some dead
secrets can kill.
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