The Truth Was Never in One Book

von Green

118 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

After the death of Helena Whitmore, four members of the Holloway family return to the crumbling estate expecting an inheritance. Instead, they are given four locked wooden boxes, four diaries, and four different versions of the family's past.Victor believes his father was a heroic war general and has spent his entire life protecting the Holloway name. Genevieve trusts facts, money, and evidence, convinced that every family secret can eventually be exposed. Zachary, the charming Golden Child, discovers that even his place in the family may have been carefully constructed. And Eliza, the quiet daughter who remained at her mother's bedside for years, knows more than she has ever admitted.Helena's final testament forces each of them to confront a history that seems to change depending on which diary they read. Victor is told that he is the son of a king. Genevieve learns that her family fortune may have been built on fraud. Zachary discovers that he was used as a distraction and a tool of control. Yet none of their books contains the complete truth.As suspicion turns the siblings against one another, they begin to understand that the diaries were never simply records of the past. Helena deliberately created different narratives for each child, giving them carefully designed identities-hero, skeptic, golden child, observer-and manipulating them into seeing one another as enemies. The books were matches, and she wanted to see who would catch fire first.The deeper they investigate, the darker the secret becomes. Helena did not build a family in the way they believed. She constructed a narrative around damaged children, erased their origins, and kept them dependent on the identities she had written for them. Even Eliza, who thought her knowledge gave her power, realizes that remaining silent only turned her into another ghost inside the house.But the four siblings eventually face the most important revelation: the truth cannot be found by choosing one diary over another. They must stop allowing their dead mother's voice to define who they are. They burn the books, reject the identities imposed upon them, and choose to investigate their origins together. What once divided them becomes the foundation of a shared future.Dark, atmospheric, and psychologically intense, The Truth Was Never in One Book is a gothic mystery about family manipulation, buried identities, inherited lies, and the difficult freedom of writing your own story.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9798330307494
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: JEAN GREEN