Continuing from where Volume One leaves off, Damp Legacy Part Two ‘FRUITION’ takes up the mining communities’ story as it comes to terms with the tragic events and looks towards a brighter future. Life must go on; their strength of human spirit enables them to surmount all obstacles. FRUITION leaves behind the melancholy. At the coalmine, unscrupulous men descend upon the scene to take advantage of the situation, by so doing they incur the interest of covert government officials, a secretive organisation and of a high-ranking influential Knight of the Realm with a score to settle. Mentored by the feisty Antoinette a naïve,innocent girl blossoms into womanhood, whilst Henry moves a step closer to his heart’s desire, and his former partner’s mistress learns she is still protected from beyond the grave.

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