Welcome to the home of RiverQuest Publishing. I am Gary Feinstein, and Under the Family Tree is my debut novel. It’s a raw, emotionally charged story about a courageous teen girl wading through a murky world of family secrets and murder, while searching for the truth about he identity.
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What would you do if the life you knew was not what you thought it was?
Living with a single mother who receives annual Christmas cards from the bartenders in town, high school sophomore Dakota Lodi is used to a bumpy ride in life. To cope, she keeps a low profile, obsessed over her awesome music playlists, and hangs out with her only friend, Rosie Peña. It’s a recipe for survival, at least. Until her mother is sentenced to four years in prison on drug charges, and her world is shattered.
How far would you go to learn the truth?
Forced to live with her estranged grandmother, Dakota must find a way to pick up the pieces of her life. She decides to search for the father she’s never known. With the help of Rosie, they track down her mother’s old friends to gather intel, but most of them aren’t interested in reliving the past. And when the girls unearth a cold-case homicide, tensions in the community ramp up. Dakota suspects the case is related to her fathers story, but to learn the truth, she’ll have to keep digging. Even if what she finds might change everything she thought she knew about her family.