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Burn the Diaries and Run

Kate Flora

Heartbroken and betrayed, college senior Jenny Cates returns home for spring break, seeking solace in her family. Instead, she stumbles upon her mother, a prominent lawyer, brutally attacked in her office. With her last breath before slipping into a coma, her mother utters a desperate plea: Run, Jen. Burn the diaries and run.

As Jenny grapples with the cryptic message, she receives a mysterious package from her mother's best friend, which she believes contains the diaries. But before she can delve into their secrets, Jenny's world is upended by a shocking revelation: the man she's always known as her father isn't. Her real father is a powerful politician, now running for president, who will stop at nothing to keep his past buried-including silencing Jenny.

With one man determined to destroy her and another eager to exploit her for political gain, Jenny is thrust into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Armed with only her wits and the resilience honed by years of playing college soccer, Jenny goes on the run, pursued by two powerful forces with everything to lose.

As she evades capture, Jenny begins reading her mother's diaries, uncovering the truth about her mother's past, her first law job, and a passionate affair with the attorney general-her real father. But as she forms a deep connection with the mother who may never wake up, Jenny realizes that to survive, she must destroy the diaries before they fall into the wrong hands.

In a final desperate move, Jenny escapes back to Maine to confront the man who fathered her, expose the truth, and unravel the campaigns of two ruthless men.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Encircle Publications, LLC
  • Publish Date: Oct 23rd, 2024
  • Pages: 332
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.74in - 1.07lb
  • EAN: 9781645995708
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Cozy - AnimalsMystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

About the Author

Flora, Kate: - The author of twenty-four books and many short stories, Maine native Kate Flora has been a finalist for the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Derringer awards. She won the Public Safety Writers Association award for nonfiction and twice won the Maine Literary Award for crime fiction. Encircle published her domestic thriller, Teach Her a Lesson, in May 2023, and will release her new political suspense thriller, The Senator's Daughter, in October 2024. Flora is a founding member of the New England Crime Bake and the Maine Crime Wave and runs the blog Maine Crime Writers at mainecrimewriters.com. Her nonfiction focuses on aspects of the public safety officers' experience. She divides her time between Massachusetts and Maine, where she gardens and cooks and watches the clouds when she's not imagining her character's dark deeds.