num_pages: 349
description: From the New York Times USA Today and internationally bestselling author of the Angelology series comes a bewitching gothic novel of suspense that plunges readers into a world of dark family secrets the mysteries of human genetics and the burden of family inheritance. It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta Bert Monte receives a letter addressed to Countess Alberta Montebianco at her Hudson Valley New York home that claims shes inherited a noble title money and a castle in Italy. While Bert is more than a little skeptical the mystery of her aristocratic familys past and the chance to escape her stressful life for a luxury holiday in Italy is too good to pass up.At first her inheritance seems like a dream come true: a champagne-drenched trip on a private jet to Turin Italy; lawyers with lists of artwork and jewels bequeathed to Bert; a helicopter ride to an ancestral castle nestled in the Italian Alps below Mont Blanc; a portrait gallery of ancestors Bert never knew existed; and a cellar of expensive vintage wine for Bert to drink.But her ancestry has a dark side and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of ancestral treasures but in her very genes.
language: English
title: The Ancestor
publisher: William Morrow