Lie by Lie

<p><em>Three generations bound by secrets. Two mysteries uncovered by DNA. One past that won't stay hidden. </em></p><p></p><p>Adam and Heather weren't related - or so they were told - but they didn't believe what their adoptive parents said. Growing up in a small town they knew instinctively they were brother and sister. Thirty years later a DNA test confirmed they were right.</p><p></p><p>With time on their hands in 2020 the siblings hire genealogist Karen Copperfield to unravel the mystery that has shaped their lives: the identity of their birth parents. Nothing they have found out themselves adds up. </p><p></p><p>Because so much they'd been told about the past was a lie. A lie that began in 1970 with a pregnant teenager whose parents wouldn't let her keep the baby. Or maybe earlier when a respected and respectable teacher survived the worst floods to hit Britain in the twentieth century only to make the first of many bad decisions.</p><p></p><p>When the truth starts to emerge so do the reasons it was hidden. And one of those reasons could hurt them. Badly.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Lie by Lie</em> is the second in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield investigative genealogist as she helps families come to terms with the sometimes dark truths revealed by DNA tests. </strong></p><p></p><p>Spanning seventy years and three generations <em>this</em> is a gripping emotionally charged mystery about love and identity shame and greed. The secrets they didn't know they kept and the crimes other people committed.</p>