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Upon His Death Bed
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Historical Fiction
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN-10: 1432776010
Type: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781432776015
Price: $6.99 (eBook)
A Compelling Drama of Life between birth and death . .
In the pages of this historical novel, the readers find a dying man stretched out on a fiber filled mattress, supported by an iron cast frame.
Frightened, this man, John Simpson was holding onto his feather pillow, as his nephew Chance Manning loomed above his weakened and shaking body.
In an instant, the younger man, inebriated and angry, turned away from the dying man's bedside. Reaching the back door, he pushed it open forcefully and began running down the stairs.
Almost colliding with Payton Simpson, John Simpson's beloved son and cousin to Chance Manning, he grunted as the two simultaneously moved away from the other.
This scene is only the beginning of the deep seeded rivalry between the two men, as one of them is expected to take the helm of Simpson Industries upon the dying man's death.
Although the inheritance of this position is disputed by Margaret and Cecil Manning, mother and father to Chance Manning, John Simpson bequeaths control of the company to Payton.
Stubbornly denying his sister's claim of incest, he refused to acknowledge Chance was actually his son and not his nephew. Superficially, this appears to be the reason for the Simpson's family hatred towards both father and son.
On a more socioeconomic and political level, they hated John Simpson because of his betrayal and rejection of Mary Simpson his wife, Mary, for a young native girl, Dalia Mendonza.
Ignoring the expected consequences, he travels to Cayenne, French Guiana with the fifteen year old Dalia, who, nine months later, gave birth to their son, Payton.
In this family, hatred, greed and rivalry over the Simpson sugarcane fortune, ran as deeply as the blood which was shed to procure the very ground from which this commodity arose.
Excerpt
In the pages of this exotic novel, the readers experience the collision between two vastly different cultures: Their languages, love, money and politics.
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