A Lethal Legacy

Seductions, deceptions, and twisted roots in one family tree rooted uneasily in crumbling dirt. A fascinating study of human expectations, failings, and redemption.

A Lethal Legacy takes the reader on a journey through Ed Townsend's twisted family legacy. He complicates the familial connection even more when he falls prey to the siren of his much younger second cousin Kristina, who is beyond saving as she plots to get her fair share of the Townsend family legacy. Ed's best friend and cousin, Gary, struggles as he marries two women who he doesn't love all because he knows his father will never accept his homosexuality. It takes divorce, disease, and murder for Ed to realize that acceptance only comes from within once faces the truth about his own culpability.

The troubled souls that haunt and torment all they touch.

Kristina-devious, depraved, and desperate. She'll do anything to find love.

Gary-imprisoned by his need to find love at all costs...until it's too late.

Ed-sometimes the hero, sometimes the villain. He's easy to love and hate as he seeks happiness in all the wrong places.

A Lethal Legacy-part psychological thriller, part family saga-takes the reader on an odyssey through the secret lives of one family burdened by the social constraints of the 1950s and '60s as boundaries begin to crumble yet still leave scars on the vulnerable.

Buy your copy of A Lethal Legacy to lose yourself in the story of one family's tortured journey through the land mines of parental expectations as the children struggle and fail to live up to the rigid and impossible standards of the time.viral