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ELLA, nurse and founder of DONATE, a nearly billion-dollar Women Owned Endeavor has it all, respect, prestige, and wealth. DONATE becomes a global phenomenon that everyone wants in on, then Ella’s world is capsized after she receives a blackmail letter demanding millions for something she did as a child, forcing her to delve into past trauma that marked her in the Spring of 1963, when she was just eight. Ella’s parents abandoned her and three-year-old brother Donnie, leaving them to fend for themselves on Galveston Island. Hidden secrets in Ella’s childhood threaten to upend her picture-perfect life and carefully crafted façade. All those years ago, she did the unthinkable, a fact she has buried in her subconscious. The blackmailer sends her increasingly menacing letters and taunting emails, upping the payment demand. She is desperate, hiring Private Investigator Brian Nickson, a retired cop who quickly recognizes Ella for the cunning liar that she is. PI Nickson gets the FBI involved and meets one roadblock after another in the decade’s old mystery to untangle a past that has more questions than answers. Ella suffers haunting dreams and flashbacks and again relies on her own childhood Psychiatrist, famed Dr. David Siegfried to help uncover a web of deceit to unlock answers in this twisty domestic thriller.