SISTERLY DECEPTION
Author offers tips for how to avoid an inheritance nightmare
Novel Weaves Tale of Familial Jealousy, Greed, and Treachery
Author offers tips for how to avoid an inheritance nightmare
2009-01-12
LONGWOOD, FL--Xulon Press author Joseph Pitt's Sisterly Deception ($13.99, paperback, 978-1-60791-142-5) is a true story of an inheritance nightmare involving two sisters whose jealousy, faith, and greed go mad. When Wicee ("the bear") is searching through her recently departed mother's belongings, her youngest sister Evilena ("the snake") bursts into the room and screams, "When he dies I'm gonna get all of his money!" referring to their surviving stepfather. What follows is a fiendish ploy by both sisters to abscond with hundreds of thousands of dollars of the inheritance that is to be lawfully divided between their family members. Their older brother Daniel ("the lamb") discovers his sisters have no limits to their scheming, deceptions, and treachery, used against him for no cause other than to satisfy their greed of obtaining their parents' largest inheritance for themselves.
This story is unfortunately common, but as it unfolds the author observes the unethical methods employed by the sisters, reflects on the loss of their Christian faith, and makes suggestions for a will that may help prevent something similar from occurring to readers in the future. Having honorably served both in the US military and federal government--and having had exposure to the study of personality disorders in college courses--led to the author's writing this story in the hopes that the author might possibly curtail a future negative inheritance situation in families.
Says Pitt, "The lessons herein cannot be learned too early by an adult man or woman. In the often unforeseen times of a loved one or an elderly person passing, I hope this true story invokes awareness to be better prepared in dealing with an inheritance situation."