The Musician's Secret

Weve all pretended to be something were not. But Rupen Najarian an eighty-three-year-old musician living in Glendale California has built his whole existence on a lie. The day his village in Turkey was torched by soldiers seven-year-old Rupen became the last survivor of his family. Bearing a terrible secret he joined the Armenian Trail of Tears into the Syrian Desert. Now in 1992 Maestro Rupen is rich and famous with the trappings of high-class Armenian living thanks to his talent on the duduk an ancient shepherds flute. As he performs at his birthday tribute an earthquake-literal and figurative-rattles his world. Because if you have a secret everything can be undone by a single person who knows the truth. Meet Haik a twenty-year-old Armenian immigrant who becomes stalker blackmailer and Rupens personal Lucifer. But even as this young man gains control of the Maestros life he soon realizes hes in over his head. For Rupen is more than just the master of the duduk... From the wastes of the Syrian Desert to the streets of Beirut from the canals of Venice to the sprawl of contemporary Los Angeles The Musicians Secret is a compelling tale of hidden identities intricate mysteries and the tantalizing possibility of redemption.