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The Cottage With No Heir: A Loughhaven Inheritance Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Three women claim to be the daughter of a woman who was told her baby died. Only one can inherit the cottage-but all three have been given a reason to believe.
When retired teacher Margaret Blake dies in the harbour town of Loughhaven, her will leaves Rosebank Cottage to Elspeth Anne Blake: the daughter official records say died five days after birth in 1973.
Within a week, three women appear.
Louise Mercer has an adoption history, a white shawl and a photograph of Margaret holding a baby. Nuala Byrne carries a foster record naming M. Blake and a close DNA connection to the family. Elaine Cross arrives from Canada with letters written by Margaret to the midwife who helped remove a child from St Brigid's Nursing Home.
Probate genealogist Anna Harland is hired to identify the rightful heir. Her search leads through altered certificates, sealed adoption files, a concealed maternity room and a respected family determined to control how the past is remembered.
But proving who inherits Rosebank will require more than finding the correct name. Anna must uncover why three women were drawn into the same story-and who still benefits from keeping them there.
The Cottage With No Heir is a clean, atmospheric British mystery about family secrets, hidden records and the courage to make a name right without erasing the people who carried it.
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