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found money
p a young woman finds 200 000 in cash in a cardboard box delivered to her door . a man inherits a fortune from a father who died penniless . amy parkens and ryan duffy have never met but they are about to as each discovers that found money can be a godsend or a nightmare . p amy parkens is a struggling single mother forced to abandon a career in astronomy for a practical computer job . she feels condemned to long hours low pay and no time to spend with her daughter . then an unmarked package arrives . theres no card no note no return address . someone has simply sent her a small fortune . amy has no idea who or why . she only knows her dead end life has changed forever . p though she longs to keep the cash amy fears a mistake a setup or even a possible connection to her mothers mysterious suicide twenty years earlier . she has to find the source . but when she tries to look her gift horse in the mouth someone snatches the money away quickly violently . p ryan duffy is a decent responsible man a small town physician from the plains of southeastern colorado . like amy ryan has recently found unexpected wealth . his fathers estate is worth more than ryan could ever have imagined millions more . truth is dad was a hardworking electrician for forty years . but in his attic he hid a fortune . the duffy family has been guarding this secret . was it extortion burglary or some other shocking crime and now that ryan has the money what should he do p painful as it is ryan is drawn to his fathers dark past . amy on the same desperate quest for answers soon crosses ryans path . their search takes them through a labyrinth of deception and blackmail leading to a man of unfathomable power . p yet the past is not what it appears . heinous crimes touched their families years ago . amy and ryan must solve a treacherous puzzle to learn why the true victims never came forward why the real wrongdoers went unpunished and why certain people would kill to keep their secrets .
paperback avon books 2000 isbn 0061097624
abridged n isbn 13 9780061097621 number of pages 465 publisher harpercollins release date 62135769600000