A young woman unearths the heartbreaking truth about her mother’s past. The more January digs, the more she feels a connection with a woman she believed was lost forever. Hancock’s affecting story is about tearing open old wounds, discovering your roots, and the power of forgiveness.
“Bloodlines” is a work of fiction by Robert Hilliard. The story in this book traverses happenings in North America, Great Britain, Germany, and Israel. In America, Bentley Wellington is a two-time governor of Kentucky and an alcoholic. One day while drunk, he raped and impregnated his worker of color named Marci Davis. The governor, in a bid to cover up his atrocity, paid off Marci and had her sign a nondisclosure agreement to never disclose what transpired between them. This led Marci to change her name to Marci Davis-Jeffries. She gave birth to the governor’s son and named him Sean Davis-Jeffries.
