As their stories play out over the years in cities far apart, best-selling author Michael French fills the world of Alex and Jaleel with a cast of vivid characters both supporting and threatening their efforts to build a life that 'works' amid the expectancies of others and their own conflicting drives. Justice, Jaleel finds, can be a powerful-but dangerous-rock on which to build a life of honor and courage. Justice, Alex learns, can be a strange and nebulous thing, easily enmeshed in webs of loyalty and betrayal. While the forces of the law try to unravel the mysterious death-or at least find a scapegoat-the two youths see the trajectories of their lives entwine, unravel, and come together again. One day, a simple cup of lemonade unites their lives, leading to a maze of adultery and murder that shatters Alex's youthful innocence and Jaleel's struggle to reshape his life. French - Ghost With Two Hearts - WOW Tour. While selling lemonade he meets Alexandra, who has her own family problems.

A young black man, Jaleel, is wrongly accused of murdering his parents and this story follows his progression through life.

A world away, Alexandra 'Alex' Baten is growing up amid all the material comforts a wealthy Los Angeles lawyer can provide. After reading this book I am rethinking the clear definition between right and wrong. Once Upon A Lie written by Michael French is a wonderfully written novel about family and crime drama. Ernst Fischer literature moral Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion. Twelve-year-old Jaleel Robeson is on the run after the police in his tiny Texas town try to frame him for the death of his father. French, Once Upon a Lie time-flies raising-a-toddler time-travel albert-einstein parenting einstein toddler children they-grow-up-fast To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Once Upon a Lie by Michael R. French