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The Damnable Legacy
The Damnable Legacy
The Damnable Legacy
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Lynn Van Swol still regrets the decision she made thirty years ago to place her daughter for adoption so she could climb the highest mountains of the world. Frankie Rizzoni is the troubled biological granddaughter Lynn has never known. And Beth Mahoney is a minister's wife with terminal cancer--and the only one who knows the relationship between the two. She designs a plan upon her deathbed to bring Lynn and Frankie together, but now, narrating from the afterlife, she must helplessly watch as her legacy threatens to unravel.

 

The Damnable Legacy is a story about both love and survival, exploring the importance of attachment, place, and faith, and asking how far we should go to achieve our goals⎯and at what cost.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 2, 2014
ISBN9780996103848
The Damnable Legacy
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G. Elizabeth Kretchmer

G. Elizabeth Kretchmer is the author of The Damnable Legacy of A Minister's Wife, an exciting new novel about love and survival that straddles between the worlds of literary and women's fiction. Her short fiction, essays, and freelance work have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times, High Desert Journal, Silk Road Review, SLAB, and other publications. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. When she’s not writing, she's facilitating therapeutic and wellness writing workshops or spending time in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three sons, and a Labradoodle named Lani. Visit her website at www.gekretchmer.com.

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