SOME FAMILIES CARRY MORE THAN A NAME.
HOW MUCH CAN A FAMILY LOSE BEFORE THEY STOP CALLING THEMSELVES ONE?
Nine brothers and sisters. Nine different lives. Raised together, yet no two remember their past in the same way. Love, loyalty and laughter sit alongside years of arguments, control and wounds that were never fully healed.
Their eldest brother has been absent for fifteen years. Others live with their own struggles, secrets and choices that continue to divide them. They fall out, take sides and hurt one another, yet through everything, the Famagustas remain a family - unique, complicated and impossible to ignore.
Until one night, everything changes.
A devastating act of violence shatters their world, leaving them grieving, frightened and desperate for answers. But as the shock begins to settle, a more disturbing truth emerges: whoever is behind their tragedy may not be finished.
In the streets of Yorkshire, where money changes hands behind closed doors, loyalty comes at a price and violence can reach even the most ordinary doorstep, each sibling must confront what has happened in their own way. Some will demand answers. Some will seek revenge. Others will fight to protect the people they love.
But the Famagustas' story did not begin with that night.
More than fifty years earlier, in a different country and a very different world, another generation was living, loving and making choices whose consequences could never have been imagined. Their story unfolds alongside the present, revealing the people, places and moments that shaped everything that follows.
Across generations, through the eyes of those who lived them, two timelines weave together to tell a powerful story of family, betrayal, exile, survival and the enduring bonds that can never truly be broken.
SOME SECRETS NEVER DIE.
WHITE ROSES UPON THE OLIVE TREE(TM) is the first book in an ambitious multi-book family saga of crime, love, loss and the extraordinary consequences that one generation can leave for the next.