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The Unholy Family
The Unholy Family
The Unholy Family
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There is a saying: “Blood Is Thicker Than Water.” But at what point will this proverb become a lie? With the family business in sharp decline due to poor leadership from her mother and brother, Dr. Anastasia Machado, M.D., and her husband, Dr. Julio Machado, D.V.M., the moment has arrived for both to join forces to keep the family business from failing. But for them to do so will forever disprove the axiom. Splintering a family in the process. For Julio and Anastasia, taking that fateful step would ensue a drama will result in a husband and wife team igniting a bitter family feud. One that will pit a mother and her son against this physician and veterinarian. Yes, it is well known how power corrupts. Money even more so. However, pit a household where both money and power are at stake? The outcome creates a clan that will be forever be truly known by its signature name: The Unholy Family.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMay 18, 2022
ISBN9781665558440
The Unholy Family
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John D. Loscher

John “J.D.” Loscher holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and is a Certified Teacher. He served in the United States Air Force and is a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. His novels, Three Cheers For Father Donovan, along with the epic two-volume narrative, The Bolsheviks, put him at the forefront as an author of historical fiction. He authored the novels The Heart of the Matter, The Pontchartrain Connection, and The Maltese Messiah. He is the dramatist for a highly successful double trilogy. The first trilogy: Coming Out of the Dark, The Black Madonna, and In the Hands of the Gods. The second trilogy: To Slay a Dragon, The Unholy Family, and The Run for the Roses. Writing under the penname of J.D. Cooper, he wrote the novel Window to the Soul. He is currently hard at work researching and writing his next novel.

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