The House Left To Both Of Us: 3 (Blackwater County) - Softcover

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Two strangers. One inheritance. Thirty days to uncover a lifetime of lies.

When Nora Maddox passes away, her final will contains a bizarre and binding clause: her beloved North Carolina farmhouse is left to her daughter, Clara, and a complete stranger named Wren Foster. To claim their inheritance, the two women must live together in the isolated house for thirty continuous days before any sale can proceed.

Clara, a meticulous chef accustomed to controlling her environment, is completely blindsided. Wren, an observant and guarded copy editor, arrives carrying a brass key identical to Clara's-and a desperate need for answers about her own mysterious origins.

As the autumn days tick by, the claustrophobic tension in the farmhouse mounts. Clara discovers a hidden journal concealed inside the staircase, exposing her mother's secret life running an unlicensed, underground shelter for pregnant teenagers in the 1990s. But the darkest truth is kept on a torn page that Clara hides in her coat pocket: undeniable proof of a devastating crime committed by her own father, a respected county judge who used his absolute authority to force a sixteen-year-old girl to abandon her baby.

Locked in a quiet, psychological battle of wits, the two women circle the same explosive evidence. Clara is terrified of destroying her father's fading legacy and carries the damning proof on her body every single day. Wren, who knows far more than she lets on, waits patiently for the truth to be surrendered.

As the thirty-day deadline approaches, the farmhouse that once offered sanctuary threatens to tear both of their lives apart.

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