The Second Name
A story passed down
A fictional world inspired by family history.
A family tree can tell us names and dates. Fiction asks what those lives might have felt like.
Inspired by research into her own Simard and Seymour ancestry, Melody Laughlin brings generations of family history to life through historical fiction. The Second Name begins with a fascination for the people who came before and imagines the secrets that might travel alongside a family name.
The novels blend ancestral inspiration with invented characters’ experiences and a fictional mystery. Historical records and imagined storytelling remain distinct.
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