Tarnished - (Paperback)

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Tarnished is a fictional saga which would be listed in the literary or general genre. The novel is

set in the small town of Branfield, NH, located just north of the Massachusetts bordedS. The plot

begins and ends with the tale of the disastrous fall from grace of its most respected family's good

guy, Hal Rollins. Along the way the reader is taken on a roller-coaster ride within the grit needed

to make a flourishing town from the 1840's to the 2018's. Rollinsford, the Rollins estate, and its

occupants often take front and center and the oldest son stands at the top of their respect.

Every small town in New England has a notable "family". In Tarnished, Ms. Massey takes us,

with the sure hand of insider knowledge, through the rise and fall of just such a family.

Conversations in the local shops, gossip over lunch by a fascinating trio of local ladies adds the

spice of a " who dunnit" With just enough historical background to give a solid picture of the

present time we are made to become involved and care about this town and this "family".

Hal Rollins has been the town's biggest success from days of sports heroics at BHS to the high

school's beloved principal. In 2016, now a shoo-in to be Superintendent of Schools in his county,

Hal becomes embroiled in a career-ending crime and Branfield's center of attention for all the

wrong reasons. That this could happen, a guessing game of who was involved, the innocence

often found in too much trust, are all paramount in making the book hard to put down.