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The Marchington Inheritance 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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It was the children who, innocently, started
the train of events that was to have such a
devastating climax. Every day, in a newly
opened primaryschool next door to the
Marchington home, the pupils would create
a minor uproar under the elder Miss
Marchington swindow and disrupt her cus-
tomary afternoon nap. So her great-nieec,
the young painter, Avril Marchington, went
over to the school to see if she could persuade
the teachers to keep the children more quick
It all seemed so simple
As simple and uncomplicated as the
fact that the same day, Avril s cstranged sister
and her husband and two children arrived
back in the States after years abroad and
came to stay in the tall brownstone on New
York s blast Side. Yet these two events were
linked in a way that Avril could not have
imagined in hcr wildest nightmare. Any
more than she could imagine the real and
crucial role played by her old enemy, Julian
Demarest, young partner of her tyralmical
late fathcr, and, she believed, fellow-
conspirator in her own unhappiness.
But if Avril was now haunted by the
ghost of a child that had been takcn from her,
Julian had his own, tragedies and fears to
contend with. That a chain of terror linked
the school, Avril, her family, and Julian
together--and that a shattering cuhnination
The Marchington Inheritance 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书