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The Fiftieth Name
Paperback
Publisher: Todd Michael Publishing
Published: Nov 7 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Forty-nine names. One blank line. And a system waiting for someone to decide who deserves to survive.
When Naomi Chen discovers a mysterious list containing forty-nine names and an empty fiftieth line, she realizes she is not looking at a list of victims. She is looking at a ballot. The names belong to a hidden chain of identities passed from person to person across generations, carrying access to courts, hospitals, sealed records, government systems, and secrets powerful enough to rewrite lives.
Now the chain is searching for its fiftieth holder.
As Elias Vale, Camille Vale, Naomi Chen, and their allies unravel the mystery, they discover that identity itself has become a weapon. Birth records conflict. DNA points toward competing truths. Memories can be manipulated. Legal identities can outlive the people who carried them. And institutions can turn protection into ownership simply by agreeing on which version of a person should be believed.
But the greatest threat may not be the person behind the conspiracy. It may be a system that has learned how to survive everyone who tries to destroy it.
The Fiftieth Name is a high-stakes legal and political conspiracy thriller about identity, consent, institutional power, family, manipulation, and the dangerous line between protecting a person and controlling who that person is allowed to become.
Packed with hidden records, shifting identities, legal intrigue, psychological suspense, and escalating revelations, Book Three of The Grudge series challenges one final assumption:
If every official record says who you are, does the truth still belong to you?
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