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Dark Inheritance
Carola Salisbury
A young woman travels from Cornwall to Venice, hunted by her proud family's deadly secret.
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Here is the spellbinding tale of a lovely young woman pursued by a proud family's shameful past...from a Cornwall mansion to the fabled Crystal Palace in London to glittering Venice...and coming ever closer to the terrible menace of her Dark Inheritance.
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