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The Last Will Was Written Twice
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Series: Blackwater County, Book 9
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Publisher: Knox Harrow
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Every family keeps a ledger. The columns never balance.
Grace Holloway has spent her life balancing other people's books. As a forensic accountant in Raleigh, she thrives on precision, order, and the undeniable truth of numbers. It's a carefully constructed life that keeps her far away from the suffocating heat of Blackwater County, North Carolina, and the tragic loss of her mother decades ago.
But when her father dies, Grace returns home expecting a standard estate settlement. Instead, the family attorney presents two identical wills, signed minutes apart. The first leaves Grace a $1.4 million inheritance. The second strips her of everything, demanding she repay every dime her father ever gave her.
To determine which will governs the estate, Grace and her brother, Dean, must answer one devastating question: Who closed the gate at the lake on the afternoon of July 19, 1996?
That afternoon, thirty years ago, a nine-year-old boy drowned on their property. It was ruled a tragic accident. But Virgil Holloway's final legal trap reveals a labyrinth of hidden trust funds, secret paternity, and a decades-long demand for justice.
Forced to audit her own family's past, Grace must confront the lies her brother told, the stepmother who waited years for her revenge, and the chilling reality of what she herself did when she was just eight years old.
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