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by Leigh Seippel<\/p>\n
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This vivid story opens with every couple\u2019s nightmare\u2014the disappearance of their comfortable known world. Ruin\u2019s adventure explores the unpredictable progression of character and chance for Francy and Frank Campbell, newly destitute in their early thirties, along with their lovers and foes. And a murder investigator . . . .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Frank is another dreamer whose life is suddenly burned to the ground. More a disillusioned literature Ph.D. than an experienced financier, he had naively agreed to join his wife\u2019s inheritance with his own personal guarantee of a college friend\u2019s private equity partnership debt.<\/p>\n The business implosion and subsequent bankruptcy took all their assets. Francy, an orphaned European heiress, now finds herself homeless, still married to pleasant, witty Frank\u2014who had failed to protect them from disaster.<\/p>\n The couple flees Manhattan to live at a desolate non-working Hudson Valley farm. 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