Blood And Secrets

Synopsis

When my sister Leticia Barnett was fourteen, she was adopted by the richest family in Criamore—the powerful Morrow family. Overnight, a poor village girl became the beloved daughter of a wealthy household. The first year after she left, she secretly mailed me a letter along with a stack of books. In the letter, she told me to study hard, to find a way out of the mountains and come join her. She said the world beyond these hills was full of wonders, that life with the Morrow family was good, and I didn't need to worry about her. But that was the last I ever heard from her. No more letters. She disappeared from my life like a dream. Years later, I got into a university in Criamore and went searching for her—only to find out the Morrow family never had an adopted daughter. Later, I started dating a guy named Preston Morrow—the Morrow family's only son, spoiled and adored. One night, after too much to drink, he let a secret slip: he once had an older brother. The boy died young, and after that, his parents brought home a girl whose birth chart matched his, to keep their dead son company in the afterlife.