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Book Review of Blood Roots

Blood Roots
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All her life, Olivia only wanted to be part of a large, loving family. But her mother had hated her home and fled from it. As Olivia grew into a beautiful youmg woman her mother's fits of fury trembled into madness, a brooding despair over all she had lost...Devereaux House, the grand plantation manor rising out of the evening mists...Yearning to find her roots and put the past to rest, Olivia came home at last to Devereaux House. Her grandmother lived here, the woman her mother had called evil. Yet here was Olivia's one frail hope: the family, love and acceptance she so fervently desired. BUt when the crumbling dorrs of Devereaux House swung open, Olivia walked into a poisoned web...a legacy of lust and desecration reaching down through the ages to claim her...