Some Family Secrets are Best Left Untold Misery has followed artist and writer, Carrie Jamieson, her entire life. Until now. Suddenly, she finds herself in the middle of inexplicable happiness, happiness she had never before dared hope for. She loves her new home and new friends in Honduras. Paloma, a rescued prostitute, and her children have become the family she could never have, and her first book, a best-seller, has been awarded a prestigious prize. The cherry on the sundae is an impending visit from her favorite niece. Could it get any better? But just when she feels she's shaken off the past and its ugliness, Carrie receives a phone call. Her father, who has always despised her, is dying, and unbelievably, he wants to see her. Reluctantly, Carrie agrees to go, opening a Pandora's box of secrets and lies, challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. But not even her father knows about the old picture she has found and the darkest secret of all. Carrie's niece, Bekah Harper, is a recent nursing school graduate who has accepted an internship in Honduras. She's ready for adventure and romance away from her mother's watchful eye. But while Carrie is away, she is abducted, and the efforts to rescue her draw Carrie's friends into a deadly game with a ring of narcotraffickers, the survival of all of them at stake. Does Carrie have the faith and courage to face the past and deal with the menace threatening to destroy those she loves most?