The Family Secret: 9 (O'Connells)

Raymond OConnell was the love of Iriss life-from the day she met him to the day a year later when she married him to the tragic night before she never saw him again.Some would say they had the perfect all-American life. Now eighteen years later questions arise about the night her husband disappeared leaving a bloody knife and a letter addressed to her in which he said goodbye and told her not to look for him with not even a second thought for her and their six children.The scandal when Raymond left rocked the community fueling widespread rumors from him running away with his mistress to him being dead. But through it all Iris kept her head down keeping the secret of what really happened. Although her children often wondered and her eldest thought he was protecting her from something heinous when she asked him to get rid of the knife what they didnt know was that their father wasnt who they thought he was. Making sure his secret didnt come out was the only way to keep her family together.Now Iris can no longer keep her life with Raymond OConnell buried because her adult children are asking questions. The only thing she can think to do to protect herself and them is to enlist the help of a lawyer her daughters husband fearing that once the truth starts to surface it could change everything about their lives.The secret of their father which Iris has hidden for so long now has the potential to destroy everything the OConnells have built for themselves and once the truth of who Raymond OConnell really was comes out it will put a target on all of them and their lives in peaceful Livingston Montana will never be the same.