The Unholy Family

John D. Loscher

May 2022 · AuthorHouse

About this ebook

There is a saying: “Blood Is Thicker Than Water.” But at what point will this proverb become a lie? With the family business in sharp decline due to poor leadership from her mother and brother, Dr. Anastasia Machado, M.D., and her husband, Dr. Julio Machado, D.V.M., the moment has arrived for both to join forces to keep the family business from failing. But for them to do so will forever disprove the axiom. Splintering a family in the process. For Julio and Anastasia, taking that fateful step would ensue a drama will result in a husband and wife team igniting a bitter family feud. One that will pit a mother and her son against this physician and veterinarian. Yes, it is well known how power corrupts. Money even more so. However, pit a household where both money and power are at stake? The outcome creates a clan that will be forever be truly known by its signature name: The Unholy Family.

About the author

John “J.D.” Loscher holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and is a State of Illinois Certified Teacher. He turned to writing after serving in the United States Air Force as both enlisted airman and commissioned officer. His novel, Three Cheers for Father Donovan, along with the epic two-volume narrative, The Bolsheviks, put him at the forefront as an author of historical fiction. His novels also include The Pontchartrain Connection, The Heart of the Matter, and The Maltese Messiah. Writing under the penname of J.D. Cooper, he penned the novel Window to the Soul. The novels Coming Out of the Dark, The Black Madonna, and In the Hands of the Gods, comprise the first of the Rearchek family trilogy. The novel To Slay a Dragon is the first book of that second trilogy. Having published The Unholy Family, he is currently hard at work researching and writing, The Run for the Roses, the final book comprising that second trilogy as his next novel.