Playing Dead – A deeply rooted Texas girl finds herself linked to a horrific past: (Paperback)

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Playing Dead begins with a letter that arrives at the wrong moment and refuses to be ignored. In the wake of her father’s death, Tommie is told that the life she remembers may not be the one she was born into. A stranger claims she is a stolen child, taken decades earlier and erased from another family’s history.

Before Tommie can make sense of the accusation, a journalist appears, hinting that her past is already public property. His interest feels intrusive, possibly dangerous, and his version of events shifts just enough to keep her off balance. Truth becomes something slippery, shaped by who controls the story.

As Tommie starts to pull at the threads of her identity, long buried secrets begin to surface. The search for answers grows increasingly fraught, raising the unsettling possibility that someone wants the past to stay buried, and that uncovering it may come at a very real cost.