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Rope of Sand
by C. F. Dunn
Book 3 in the The Secret of the Journal series.
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Emma D’Eresby returns to Maine at Christmas knowing the truth about Matthew Lynes’s extraordinary lifespan. Meeting his family reveals the practical and emotional consequences of that secret: descendants appear older than he does, old relationships remain legally and morally unresolved, and some members of the household regard Emma as a threat to an order they have spent generations protecting.
Hostility within the family intensifies as Emma tries to understand Matthew’s seventeenth-century origins and the choices that followed them. A legal conflict and the return of dangerous figures from the earlier investigation place the family’s secrecy under pressure. Emma must judge which versions of Matthew’s past are trustworthy before she can decide what commitment to him will require.
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