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Book Review of Birthright

Birthright
Birthright
Author: Nora Roberts
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Romance
Book Type: Hardcover
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On ahot July afternoon, a worker at an Antietam Creek construction site drives the blade of his backhoe into a layer of soil-and strikes a 5,000 year old human skull. The discovery draws plenty of attention and a lot of controversy. It also changes the life of one woman in ays she never epected....

As an archaeolgist, Callie Dunbrook knows a lot about the past. But her own past is about to be called into question. Recruited for her expertise on the Antietam Creek dig, she encounters danger-as a cloud of death ad misfortune hangs over the project, and rumors fly that the site is cursed. She finds a passion that feels equally dangerous, as she joins forces in her work with her irritating, but irresistible, ex-husband, Jake. And when a strange woman approaches her, claiming to know a secret about Callie's priveldged Boston childhood, some startling and unsettling questions are raised about her very identity.

Searching for answers, trying to rebuild, Callie finds that there are deceptions and sorrows that refuse to stay buried. And as she struggles to ut the pieces back together, she discovers the healing process comes with consequences-and that there are people who will do anything to make sure the truth is never revealed.