They Are the Atkins

A historical fantasy novel!

It is 1950 and a year since seventeen-year-old Ace Atkins and his mother escaped the web of their pervasive family of pirates and marauders. Though he lives freely, Ace’s pickpocketing skills in rural Scotland aren’t enough to survive on—Especially now that his mother has contracted an incurable disease. But when his older brother, Dickie, is murdered, Ace is thrustback into a life that he and his mother tried to evade—He is next in line for the Atkins crown.

Ace must once again put up with his family’s dysfunction and finds that his brother hid the family wealth within the tragic magnificence of the estate. Ace is once again entangled in family secrets; everyone has something to hide, and the hidden Atkins treasure may not be all that it seems.

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