A Death in the Family

<p class=ql-align-justify>A death in the family can result in profound and enduring impacts on the future of those left behind. Tom O'Brien a journalist has lost his wife Laura to cancer. Katie his college aged daughter and Katie's older brother Brian no longer have a mother. In an attempt to mend a strained family relationship father and daughter agree to jointly write a journal the content of which will focus on their investigation into the brutal murder of a local political operative.</p><p>Their efforts will trigger a chain of tragic events some planned others seemingly fortuitous. They will uncover a pattern of sexual harassment and assaults in a Congressional office which will lead in one way or another to the deaths of Brian's fiancé the convicted murderer the father of Katie's best friend and a United States Senator. Each of these deaths beginning with the passing of Laura O'Brien will expose hidden secrets and personal vulnerabilities that will require father and daughter to recognize the existence of an inextinguishable familial light before they can escape a period of intense darkness.</p>