Anna Sugg

Sarah Shapiro searches through the ruins of her grandmother’s deteriorating farmhouse and discovers a metal box and a Tommy gun buried beneath the floorboards.
While trying to unravel the mystery of her grandmother’s secret past with the contents inside the box, Sarah take pleasure in the charming, flirtatious Morgan Mills, who helps her investigate the clues left behind by her grandmother. But it’s Clifford Ketchum the man with an attitude, who boils her blood and contradicts her emotional reactions with his nearness.
Danger closes in on her when the Tommy gun disappears, her soon to be ex-husband is killed, and how could she possibly fall in love with a deceiving contractor, who happens to have a wife.

“…it was really intriguing and likeable. It had complex and interesting characters and a story from her grandmother’s past that connects with hers and a Tommy gun was also thrown in the mix. You liked Sarah and the journey she went on when she went on her trip minus her better half. The characters you liked, you really liked and there were a few that needed to be despised and they were. Give it a chance you might be very surprised.” Review by Cassandra Graham, BTSemag Book Reviews

“The action and suspense in "Secret Past" begins as soon as a Double Eagle gold coin minted in 1933 is mentioned in the Prologue. Two generations later Sarah Shapiro stumbles upon the famed coin as she searches her grandmother's abandoned and dilapidated farm house in Tennessee and discovers a metal box and a Tommy gun buried beneath the wooden floor. The contents of the metal box reveal that her grandmother took a fantastic secret to her grave. I found myself breathless and turning the pages almost before I read to the bottom!!!! "Secret Past" is the best mystery I've read in quite some time.” A Page Turner! by Shelia Bolt Rudesill, author.