It's 1965 and Sophie Clark is living on a farm in Maryland. Without her family's knowledge, she applies for is awarded a scholarship to an elite boarding school, joining a small group of Black students. Despite her mother's wishes for her to remain home and work on the farm, Sophie seeks a better life, aware that she will need to confront the prejudices and racism of her fellow students. The story then shifts to 1950, where American Ethel Gather is living with her military hu

Catharine West lives in New York City and is a successful copywriter. Other than her friend Stella, she keeps most people at a distance, focusing on her work and her health and fitness. No one is aware that she spent her childhood living in a cult led by her father. The family's central Florida tomato farm had attracted people seeking a healthy lifestyle with communal living, impressed by its charismatic leader. It's been ten years since Catharine broke free of the farm, yet

Hazel Scott was an American jazz and classical pianist and singer who was a superstar in the 1940s and 1950s. Her story is told in ReShonda Tate's biographical historical fiction, With Love from Harlem . It begins in 1943, with Hazel performing at Harlem's Café Society, a unique club because of its integrated audience. It is there that she meets the charismatic and married Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., a local preacher with great political aspirations. Their attraction is immedia

Have you ever accidently sent an email or text to the wrong person? Susan O'Donnell, a new mother living in the South Dublin neighborhood of Oakpark, mistakenly sent a text intended for her two sisters to her community WhatApp group. The message, filled with juicy gossip, quickly went viral, causing a major uproar. In addition to a rock sailing through her window, Susan finds herself linked to not one but three possible murders. More shocking  revelations follow including...