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The Serpent I Carried

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The Serpent I Carried is a novel in English. Chapters 1 and 2 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

For eighteen years, a mother raised her adopted son, Leo, believing her devotion would be repaid. Instead, he hated her, convinced she had killed his birth mother. With her husband, Julian Ashworth, standing by, Leo arranged for a homeless man to destroy her reputation, then watched as she was driven to a lake house and forced into the freezing water to die for a crime she never committed.

When she opens her eyes again, she is not dead. She is Catherine, the fragile, sainted woman her husband and son mourned — and she is pregnant with Julian's child. Trapped in the body of the very woman whose memory doomed her, she must decide what to do with the life growing inside her, and with the man who destroyed her.

Julian swears he will marry her once the baby is born, but only after he is free of Eleanor, his vindictive wife whose family controls D.C. Catherine has no intention of waiting, or of forgiving. She has been given a second chance, and this time she will not be the one who drowns.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

For eighteen years, my adopted son hated me.

He was convinced I was the one who killed his birth mother.

So, he found a homeless man, riddled with sores from a life on the streets, to destroy me.

The day my husband drove me to the lake house to "end things," our son stood on the shore, watching me walk into the freezing water.

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Contents

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Which chapters of The Serpent I Carried are free?

Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

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What is The Serpent I Carried about?

For eighteen years, a mother raised her adopted son, Leo, believing her devotion would be repaid. Instead, he hated her, convinced she had killed his birth mother. With her husband, Julian Ashworth, standing by, Leo arranged for a homeless man to destroy her reputation, then watched as she was driven to a lake house and forced into the freezing water to die for a crime she never committed.

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