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In 1952, a young newspaper reporter believes her father is dying of an unexplained illness.
The doctors have no answers. His sudden collapse defies diagnosis. Yet in moments of delirium, he speaks of events from fifty years earlier -- of a precise date, of people long dead, of a past he has never revealed.
As his condition worsens, she begins to investigate the one thing her father always avoided: his early life.
What begins as a desperate search for medical explanations turns into a journey across history and geography -- from postwar Virginia to the Caribbean -- uncovering a forgotten catastrophe that erased an entire city in minutes. The deeper she digs, the clearer the facts become -- and the more fragile conventional explanations appear.
The evidence points backward in time.
The implications point somewhere far less comfortable.
Grounded in a real historical disaster and told through the lens of a determined journalist, The Secret of Life is a gripping novel of investigation, survival, and buried truth. It explores how memory, trauma, and identity can persist in ways reason alone cannot fully explain -- without asking the reader to abandon reason itself.
This is not a story about belief.
It is a story about what happens when belief is no longer optional.
Elegant, suspenseful, and quietly provocative, The Secret of Life will appeal to readers of historical fiction and literary mysteries who are drawn to novels that challenge assumptions and linger long after the final page.
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