SuitabookLove versus family loyalty
Annabel and Daniel fall in love while learning that their families are linked by a violent secret.
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Caroline B. Cooney - Author
A melodramatic family mystery centred on instant love, hidden histories, political violence and revenge. Multiple young characters pursue belonging, truth or retaliation amid powerful family interests and conflict.
Only a scandal could tear them apart. She is Annabel Jayquith. The only daughter of billionaire Hollings Jayquith. Just eighteen and stunningly beautiful, she feels the world is hers. He is Daniel Madison Ransom. The only son of the assassinated Senator Madison Ransom. Incredibly good-looking and famous, he's considered one of the country's sexiest young men. They meet at a high-society party, and are instantly drawn to each other by a love so strong it threatens to overwhelm them. Annabel knows only that she loves Daniel more than any man she's ever met. But Daniel knows more: that their families are linked by a dark and violent secret. A secret so terrible it makes their love . . . forbidden.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA melodramatic family mystery centred on instant love, hidden histories, political violence and revenge. Multiple young characters pursue belonging, truth or retaliation amid powerful family interests and conflict.
Annabel and Daniel fall in love while learning that their families are linked by a violent secret.
Daniel searches for the truth about his father’s murder, while the families’ wealth and public standing shape the surrounding conflict.
Jade is described as poor and alone, angry about adoption and her relationship to Theodora, and intent on making the family pay.
Some readers may want to know that the story includes an assassination, an unsolved murder, a possible killer, kidnapping and revenge. Family rejection, adoption-related resentment and grief also feature in the described plot.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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