Her Daughter's Lies

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A family party. A terrible secret. A celebration that will end in murder...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I gasp out loud as I step through the door of the beautiful country hotel. My hands fly to my mouth in shock as I see the room is filled with my friends and family my grown-up daughters and grandchildren at the centre gathered to celebrate my special birthday.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone raises their glasses to toast me. I should be enjoying the moment but I'm on edge and I can't relax. Who organised this surprise party? How did they know I was going to be here?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because I didn't come back to Burcott House to drink champagne and dance. Ten years ago someone was murdered at this hotel. Tonight after years of heartache I planned to bury the past once and for all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I look around the crowd of smiling people and my heart thuds as I see the frown on my eldest daughter's face and the way my youngest daughter is smiling widely but her eyes are puffy like she's been crying. I think about the one person who should be here who isn't...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My family's secrets and lies swirl around my mind. Can I trust anyone in this room? Can I even trust my own daughters?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was going to finish off what happened all those years ago but did someone else have the same idea? And will I survive my own birthday party...?</strong></p>