Sins of the Father

The Sequel to "A Private Affair"

Paris and England, 1920.
The war has ended—but the private choices that shaped the past are no longer willing to remain hidden.

In A Private Affair, Louisa Avigny chose independence over scandal, raising her son alone and building a life defined by work, discipline, and restraint. Decades later, her son Jean-Paul—now a veteran of the Great War—returns to Paris carrying questions that were never meant to be asked.

Across the Channel, George Swinton, heir to a brittle English world exhausted by war and denial, uncovers a resemblance his family has long refused to acknowledge. A photograph from Paris. A portrait hidden at an English estate. A year erased from polite memory.

What begins as quiet inquiry becomes an ethical reckoning.

As Jean-Paul presses for the truth of his father’s identity, Louisa must confront the consequences of a silence chosen for protection rather than shame. And Sir Edward Hastings—the man who once chose duty over courage—faces the son he never claimed, and the life that followed without him.

Set between Paris, London, and the fading grandeur of an English manor, Sins of the Father continues the emotional and moral arc begun in A Private Affair, examining what one generation hides and the next refuses to inherit. This is not a story of romantic restoration, but of clarity, accountability, and the quiet courage required to live honestly after survival.

For readers who value literary historical fiction with emotional realism, Sins of the Father explores love shaped by time, legacy chosen rather than bestowed, and why the future cannot be built on silence—even when silence once kept people safe.