Runaways: The Iniquities Trilogy III

Susannah Donaldson has not had an easy life, the selfishness of her mother had seen to that. As a 23 year old widow with four unwanted children, her life is given direction by an unexpected conversation. For the next 15 years she searches for solutions to problems that others tell her are her responsibility. Who is systematically manipulating and damaging the lives of every member of her family? How are these people connected to her grandfather and his wartime colleagues? And, most importantly, can she stop them?

More than once the progress of her investigations is interrupted by something far more important to her: which, if any, of the men in her life, could possibly be the soul mate she longs for? Frequently looking in the wrong direction and following false leads it is only when the two quests come together that Susannah finds her answers.

As in the previous two volumes of the Iniquities Trilogy (The Last Dance and Walking Alone) there are parallel themes; the manipulation of the lives of the members of the Donaldson family by men with pasts they are reluctant to discuss and a romance within that extended, dysfunctional, family.

At the end of each book the family is gathered for the reading of Max Fischer's will, the love story has been concluded and secrets of the manipulators are revealed. Although satisfying in their own perspective, however, the previous conclusions did not present the whole picture.

It is only in this, the final volume, that the true motives of the manipulators are revealed and the complexity of the family's relationships is resolved.