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Inspired
by actual events, Burning Secret is a dramatic and compelling tale of
ambition, lies, and betrayal.
Born in the
slums of Bristol in 1844, Enoch Price seems destined for a life of poverty and
hardship-but he’s determined not to accept his lot.
Enoch
becomes a bare-knuckle fighter in London’s criminal underworld. But in a city
where there’s no place for honest dealing, a cruel loan shark cheats him,
leaving Enoch penniless and facing imprisonment.
Undaunted, he escapes to a new life in America and embarks on a series of audacious exploits. But even as he helps shape history, Enoch is not content. Tormented by his past and the life he left behind, Enoch soon becomes entangled in a web of lies and secrets. Will he ever break free and find the happiness he craves?
Influenced
by real people and events, Enoch’s remarkable story
is one of adventure, daring, political power, deceit, and, in the end, the
search for redemption and forgiveness.
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R J Lloyd
After
retiring as a senior police officer, R J Lloyd turned his detective skills to
genealogy, tracing his family history to the 16th century. However, after fifteen years of extensive research, he couldn’t track
down his great-great-grandfather, Enoch Price, whose wife, Eliza, had, in
living memory, helped raise his mother.
It was his cousin Gillian who, after several more dead-ends, called one day to
say that she had found him through a fluke encounter. Susan Sperry from
California, who had recently retired, decided to explore the box of documents
given to her thirty years before by her mother, which she had never opened. In
the box, she found some references to her great-grandfather, Harry Mason, a
wealthy hotel owner from Florida who had died in 1919. It soon transpired that
Susan’s great-grandfather, Harry Mason, was, in fact, Enoch
Price.
From this
single thread, the extraordinary story of Harry Mason began to unravel, leading
R J Lloyd to visit the States to meet his newly discovered American cousins,
and it was Susan Sperry and Kimberly Mason, direct descendants, who persuaded R
J Lloyd to write the extraordinary story of their ancestor.
R J Lloyd
graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in Philosophy and
Psychology and a Masters in Marketing from UWE. Since leaving a thirty-year
career in policing, he’s been a non-executive director with the NHS, social
housing, and other charities. He lives with my wife in Bristol, spending his
time travelling, writing, and producing delicious plum jam from the trees on his
award-winning allotment.
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Thank you so much for hosting RJ Lloyd today, shining the spotlight on Burning Secret!
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My pleasure.
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