Village of Tears

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Trafford Publishing, 2014 - Fiction - 180 pages

In a sleepy town in rural northern New Jersey, a secret signed in blood has been locked away since the Civil War... When brother fought brother, a young slave, Franklin Carver, made a desperate and arduous journey to find freedom in the North. But when he finally reached pastoral Promise, New Jersey, he was tragically betrayed. Almost 150 years later, an apathetic patent lawyer, Caleb Magellan, stumbles into the midst of Promise's eerily exclusive community of wealthy residents. The ghosts of their ancestors provide the first clues that lead Caleb along Franklin Carver's dark and twisted path to a truth that threatens to shatter a nation's very conscience. That is, unless the "good" people of Promise, along with their powerful patriarch, Maximillian McCoy, who have everything to lose, get to Caleb first.

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Section 1
11
Section 2
21
Section 3
34
Section 4
37
Section 5
56
Section 6
64
Section 7
71
Section 8
81
Section 14
118
Section 15
124
Section 16
128
Section 17
131
Section 18
137
Section 19
151
Section 20
155
Section 21
165

Section 9
89
Section 10
93
Section 11
98
Section 12
105
Section 13
115
Section 22
169
Section 23
173
Section 24
176
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