the Signature in Family Bible: A Loughhaven Inheritance Mystery

A woman who died in 1900 signs a marriage register in 1903. Beneath a pasted railway ticket lies the only record of her child.When Samuel Vale leaves a Loughhaven apple orchard to "the lawful descendants of the child named only in the family Bible," probate genealogist Anna Harland is asked to identify an heir hidden for more than a century.The Bible says Alice Vale died of fever. A London register says she married three years later. A concealed line names Thomas Reed Vale-and adds three words that challenge the official record: Mother: Alice, who lived.As Anna and records manager Maya Singh trace the journey from Loughhaven to Liverpool and London, they uncover two sisters, a false death certificate, returned letters and two modern branches of the same divided family. But the orchard has already been promised to a developer, and the person most afraid of losing it may be one of the heirs Anna is trying to find.The Signature in the Family Bible is a clean British inheritance mystery about family secrets, corrected records and the courage to tell the truth without erasing compassion. It is Book Four of The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries and resolves its central case completely.