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The Founding Heir : A Nora Calloway Novel. Dead Roots, #1
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- ISBN8235086944
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- Date de parution21/04/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
The DNA test said Tom Weller shared 25% of his genome with one of America's most revered founding families. The problem? That family has no unknown heirs. Genetic genealogist Nora Calloway has spent eleven years following the threads that families unravel in their sleep - misattributed fathers, sealed adoptions, heirs sent away under other names. She knows that DNA doesn't lie. She also knows the people who left it were experts at exactly that.
What begins as a quiet client inquiry in Charlottesville pulls Nora into a sealed document from 1789: the night a founding patriarch ordered his illegitimate son raised under a different name, in a different county - with nine hundred acres of Virginia land as the price of silence. Two hundred and thirty-six years of institutional burial. A law firm that has been renewing that seal across generations.
And a sitting U. S. Senator whose family name threads through every document she opens. Someone is watching her work. Someone has already tried to stop it. As Nora reconstructs the hidden branch of the Thornwood line - using centimorgans, triangulation, and archives from Richmond to Charleston - she cannot ignore what the DNA matches are also beginning to tell her: the secret she is pulling open may reach all the way back to the unopened kit in the bottom drawer of her own desk.
The Ancestry test her adoptive mother gave her three years ago. The one she has never been willing to open. THE FOUNDING HEIR is Book One of the Dead Roots series - a six-book sequence following Nora Calloway as she uses real forensic DNA techniques to unravel the inheritances that America sealed, suppressed, and quietly sent west. GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, centimorgan analysis, triangulation - the methodology is real, drawn from the discipline that caught the Golden State Killer.
The archives are real. The silences are real. The secret buried in 1789 is fiction. The kind of silence that kept it is not."The blood remembers what the family agreed to forget."Perfect for readers who love Kate Atkinson, Ann Cleeves, and Barbara Kingsolver - and for anyone who has ever spit into a tube and wondered what the results might undo.
What begins as a quiet client inquiry in Charlottesville pulls Nora into a sealed document from 1789: the night a founding patriarch ordered his illegitimate son raised under a different name, in a different county - with nine hundred acres of Virginia land as the price of silence. Two hundred and thirty-six years of institutional burial. A law firm that has been renewing that seal across generations.
And a sitting U. S. Senator whose family name threads through every document she opens. Someone is watching her work. Someone has already tried to stop it. As Nora reconstructs the hidden branch of the Thornwood line - using centimorgans, triangulation, and archives from Richmond to Charleston - she cannot ignore what the DNA matches are also beginning to tell her: the secret she is pulling open may reach all the way back to the unopened kit in the bottom drawer of her own desk.
The Ancestry test her adoptive mother gave her three years ago. The one she has never been willing to open. THE FOUNDING HEIR is Book One of the Dead Roots series - a six-book sequence following Nora Calloway as she uses real forensic DNA techniques to unravel the inheritances that America sealed, suppressed, and quietly sent west. GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, centimorgan analysis, triangulation - the methodology is real, drawn from the discipline that caught the Golden State Killer.
The archives are real. The silences are real. The secret buried in 1789 is fiction. The kind of silence that kept it is not."The blood remembers what the family agreed to forget."Perfect for readers who love Kate Atkinson, Ann Cleeves, and Barbara Kingsolver - and for anyone who has ever spit into a tube and wondered what the results might undo.
