Her Father's Secret

Book two in Blaedel's "Family Secrets" series picks up directly after the events of The Undertaker's Daughter. When Denmark-born and raised Ilka is called to Racine, WI, to close her father's estate and funeral home business, she is surprised and angry. This is the father who deserted Ilka and her mother when Ilka was still a child. They knew he came to the United States to manage a stable of racing horses and a mortuary. This odd combination of careers is made more complicated by his second marriage and additional two daughters. The previously successful funeral home is now bankrupt and blacklisted. Something isn't right, but what? Ilka's first meeting with her father's second family doesn't go well—his wife meets her with a shotgun. But Ilka perseveres, trying to find out what happened to her father's business and, more important, why he left Denmark in the first place. With the help of her father's employees Artie and Sister Eileen, Ilka stubbornly sets out to solve the mysteries of her father's desertion and his death.