Original Sins

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When Joanne Marshall’s adoptive mother dies, she breaks a promise and begins searching for her birth parents. She has always felt apart from other people, even her family, and the absence of a personal history has become a kind of black hole, something only the truth might fill.

What she uncovers is more disturbing than she expected. Her birth father was imprisoned for murder, and he is still alive. Forced to confront the possibility that the darkness she fears in herself may have come from him, Joanne decides she must make contact, hoping it will quiet the questions about her own nature.

Instead, she finds a strange connection. As their relationship deepens, Joanne does not see how vulnerable she has become, or how dangerous he may still be. The truth she wanted has opened a door, and closing it may not be simple.