Victoria's Peace is a psychological thriller about a 15 yo boys escape from a stubborn religion with the help of an indomitable alter ego who sets him free
Imagine Huckleberry Finn, sold and subsequently adopted at birth through an underground market, waking up in an urban world of wealth, a dysfunctional family, ROTC prep schools, and trussed in a stubborn and unforgiving religion. Add to this an illicit love story, a mystery to resolve, a psychological thriller, and Victoria, an indomitable alter ego who abducts Huckleberry only to set him free in one of the cleverest escape adventures of all time.
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There was a freezing wind and a dull, gray sky overhead. The black, frozen trees appeared rigid as deformed corpses. He pulled the lamb’s wool collar of his jacket up and buried his hands in the deep side pockets. Oxley’s words snapped between his temples like static discharges: Who among you would trade a few moments selfish pleasure for an eternity in the fires of hell? Eternity was forever, and forever was a long time. The punishment and the crime seemed absurdly disproportionate but so was life and death. And why was pleasure selfish?
Book eight in my Belinda Lawrence Classic Mysteries. Mysteries confront amateur sleuths, Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in the Somerset village of Milford.
Among the eccentrics is the shadowy Madam Malefic.
