First published 2018
In the overgrown potting shed of his quaint retirement home, a former civil servant stumbles upon a mysterious box. As he delves into its contents, a tangle of family secrets and past misdeeds begins to unravel. Haunted by a lifetime of compromise and regret, the man must confront the dark realities he's long suppressed. With the stakes rising and old ghosts resurfacing, the potting shed becomes a battleground where the retired bureaucrat fights to uncover the truth and come to terms with his own flawed legacy.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, contemporary, adult-fiction, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-Century
125 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road Media