A Family Affair (Truth In Lies) - Softcover

Campisi, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985777338 ISBN 13: 9780985777333

Publisher: Mary Campisi, 2013

Synopsis

Real families aren't always the ones you know about...

A Family Affair is where it all began...Heartache, Betrayal, Forgiveness, Redemption...all wrapped up in the people you will love to love, and those you will love to hate?

When Christine Blacksworth's larger-than-life father is killed on an icy road in Magdalena, New York, a hundred miles from the 'getaway' cabin he visited every month, she discovers a secret that threatens everything she's always held to be true. Her father has another family which includes a mistress and a daughter.

Determined to uncover the truth behind her father's secret life, Christine heads to Magdalena, prepared to hate the people who have caused her to question everything she thought she knew about her father. But what she finds is a woman who understands her, a half sister who cherishes her, and a man who could love her if she'll let him. The longer she's around them, the more she questions which family is the real one. . .

Note: This book contains sexual content and profanity. While the author believes these situations are handled in good taste, she acknowledges some readers will choose to pass on this book.

Truth In Lies Series:
Book One: A Family Affair
Book Two: A Family Affair: Spring
Book Three: A Family Affair: Summer
Book Four: A Family Affair: Fall
Book Five: A Family Affair: Christmas, a novella
Book Six: A Family Affair: Winter
Book Seven: A Family Affair: The Promise
Book Eight: A Family Affair: The Secret
Book Nine: A Family Affair: The Wish
Book Ten: A Family Affair: The Gift
Book Eleven: A Family Affair: The Weddings, a novella
Book Twelve: A Family Affair: The Cabin, a novella
Book Thirteen: A Family Affair: The Return
Book Fourteen: A Family Affair: The Choice
Book Fifteen: A Family Affair: The Proposal
Book Sixteen: A Family Affair: Bonus Scenes
Book Seventeen: A Family Affair: The Homecoming
Book Eighteen: A Family Affair: The Decision
Meals From Magdalena, A Family Affair Cookbook

If you love to read about second chances, don’t miss:That Second Chance Series:
Book One: Pulling Home – (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Promise)
Book Two: The Way They Were – (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Secret)
Book Three: Simple Riches – (Also prequel to A Family Affair: Winter)
Book Four: Paradise Found - (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Wish)
Book Five: Not Your Everyday Housewife - (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Gift)
Book Six: The Butterfly Garden - (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Return)
KEY THEMES: Enemies to lovers, opposites attract, secret family, secret baby, sisters, Catskills, small town life

About this title

About the Author

Mary Campisi writes emotion-packed books about second chances. Whether contemporary romances, women's fiction, or Regency historicals, her books all center on belief in the beauty of that second chance. Her small town romances center around family life, friendship, and forgiveness as they explore the issues of today's contemporary women.

Mary should have known she'd become a writer when at age thirteen she began changing the ending to all the books she read. It took several years and a number of jobs, including registered nurse, receptionist in a swanky hair salon, accounts payable clerk, and practice manager in an OB/GYN office, for her to rediscover writing. Enter a mouse-less computer, a floppy disk, and a dream large enough to fill a zip drive. The rest of the story lives on in every book she writes.

When she's not working on her craft or following the lives of five adult children, Mary's digging in the dirt with her flowers and herbs, cooking, reading, walking her rescue lab mix, Cooper, or, on the perfect day, riding off into the sunset with her very own hero/husband on his Harley Ultra Limited.

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Mary has published with Kensington, Carina Press, and The Wild Rose Press and she is currently working on the next book in her very popular Truth in Lies series, the A Family Affair books. This family saga is filled with heartache, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption in a small town setting.

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From the Inside Flap

In another week or so he'd be able to get back to his own place, back to seclusion, where the loudest noise at night was a flip between a screech owl and a log crackling on the fire. Just the way he liked it. The majority of the human species was nothing but an annoying intrusion on his state of mind and other than the times when he had to interact with them, he preferred to be alone. Of course, family didn't fit into that category, just everyone else. His mother said he was afraid to open up after what happened three years ago. She was wrong; he didn't care about Patrice anymore, didn't even think about her, not since the day the sheriff delivered the divorce papers. Nate heard she was remarried to some bank president in Palm Springs, drove a Lexus now. Probably silver; she'd always had a fondness for silver.

The doorbell rang again, twice, rapid staccato. "Hold on, hold on." Damn intrusive busy bodies. He reached the front door, preparing the same speech he told all the well-wishers. My mother's fine . . . needs her rest . . . she'll be in touch when she's up to it. She'd be furious if she had an inkling that he was blowing off people like Father Reisanski and Judge Tommichelli, but hell, did she have to be best friends with half the town?

He opened the door.

It was her.

"Hello. I'm looking for . . ."

Her voice was softer than he'd imagined, more breathy . . .

". . .this is a bit awkward . . . "

Her eyes were bluer than her picture . . .

"Lily Desantro. Is she here?"

That brought him around fast. "Who are you?" Stupid question, but damn if he'd let on he knew who she was.

She hesitated, a split second extra air exchange. "Christine Blacksworth. I'm . . . are you Nate Desantro?" He said nothing. Let her squirm.

"Is Lily here?"

"No."

"May I come in?" She tried to look around him, into the house, into their lives.

He blocked the door. "I don't think that's a good idea."

Edition details

• Publisher: Mary Campisi
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985777338
• ISBN 13: 9780985777333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268