Spring boot with maven multi modules not working

I'm trying to create,parent pom which will hold all the child spring boot modules, But when i build parent pom, I'm getting the below error.

[ERROR] The project com.some.special:special-parent:0.0.1 (C:\Users\location\git\special-parent-pom\pom.xml) has 1 error [ERROR] Child module C:\Users\location\git\special-parent-pom..\special-security of C:\Users\location\git\special-parent-pom\pom.xml does not exist.

Below is my project structure:

--special-parent-pom

--special-security

both parent and child in same folder(C:\Users\location\git)

below is the parent pom.xml:

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
&lt;groupId&gt;com.some.special&lt;/groupId&gt;
&lt;artifactId&gt;special-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
&lt;version&gt;0.0.1&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;packaging&gt;pom&lt;/packaging&gt;

&lt;name&gt;special-parent&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;description&gt;special-parent&lt;/description&gt;
&lt;parent&gt;
&lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
&lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
&lt;version&gt;2.1.2.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/parent&gt;


    &lt;modules&gt;
        &lt;module&gt;../special-security&lt;/module&gt;
     &lt;/modules&gt;

Below is the child pom.xml:

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<artifactId>special-security</artifactId>

<packaging>jar</packaging>

&lt;parent&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;com.some.special&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;special-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;relativePath&gt;../special-parent/pom.xml&lt;/relativePath&gt;
&lt;/parent&gt;

I’m unable to identify where the mistake is, can someone help me on this or share any example.My final goal is when i build the parent pom, it should build all the child modules with jar, basically spring boot child modules.

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