Page-turning and propulsive, heartbreaking and hopeful in turn. An important and necessary book that will stay with me for a long time. --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures

From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets.

When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who is half-Black, half-white--yet feels neither--is amplified.

Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child during the politically charged Jamaican exodus in the 1980s, only to realize they'd come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion--a constant and pernicious reality Evelyn watches her husband and son navigate daily.

Years later, in the aftermath of her son's murder by the police, Evelyn's mother-in-law, Violet, moves in, offering young Kareela a link to the Jamaican heritage she had never fully known. Despite Violet's efforts to help them through their grief, the traumas they carry grow into a web of secrets that threatens the very family they all hold so dear.

In the present day, Kareela, prompted by fear and uncertainty about the new life she carries, must come to terms with the mysteries surrounding her family's past and the need to make sense of both her identity and her future.

Weaving the women's stories across multiple timelines, We Rip the World Apart reveals the ways that simple choices, made in the heat of the moment and with the best of intentions, can have deep and lasting repercussions--especially when people stay silent.

Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake.

Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfection--obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family--and her hard work has finally paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, and at last has the one thing she's wanted most of all. But one thing isn't quite perfect. Rose's pale skin doesn't match Katherine's complexion, and an irritating doubt begins to grow in Katherine's mind.

Tess never got the happy ending she wanted. She underwent IVF at the same clinic as Katherine, but after finally conceiving, Tess's daughter was stillborn. Now, nearly one year later, she's approaching rock bottom. Consumed by her grief and without hope for the future, Tess is divorced, broke, and stuck in a dead-end job beneath her skillset.

But shortly before Rose's first birthday, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic: Their eggs were switched.

As Katherine's carefully planned life begins to crumble around her, Tess finally sees the glimmer of hope she needed to get her life back on track. Motherhood has always been their dream, and neither woman is prepared to share that claim over Rose. It will take a tense custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, but it will also push them to the brink.

With themes of racial identity, loss, and betrayal, Hold My Girl is an emotional novel that will leave you contemplating: What makes a mother?

Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake.

Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfection--obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family--and her hard work has finally paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, and at last has the one thing she's wanted most of all. But one thing isn't quite perfect. Rose's pale skin doesn't match Katherine's complexion, and an irritating doubt begins to grow in Katherine's mind.

Tess never got the happy ending she wanted. She underwent IVF at the same clinic as Katherine, but after finally conceiving, Tess's daughter was stillborn. Now, nearly one year later, she's approaching rock bottom. Consumed by her grief and without hope for the future, Tess is divorced, broke, and stuck in a dead-end job beneath her skillset.

But shortly before Rose's first birthday, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic: Their eggs were switched.

As Katherine's carefully planned life begins to crumble around her, Tess finally sees the glimmer of hope she needed to get her life back on track. Motherhood has always been their dream, and neither woman is prepared to share that claim over Rose. It will take a tense custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, but it will also push them to the brink.

With themes of racial identity, loss, and betrayal, Hold My Girl is an emotional novel that will leave you contemplating: What makes a mother?

Secrets have consequences. If given the power, they will lead you into a life you never dreamed of or wanted.

Brooke Lake is a girl caught in a town and a life she yearns to escape. Full of anger, fear, and questions without answers, she runs from her problems only to lose herself in a world that's too much for her.

Molly Shirley is a woman without a past and no foreseeable future. Her body is her best commodity, so she does whatever she has to do to survive.

Broken by lies, Brooke and Molly must explore the parts of themselves they would rather keep secret. Only by confronting the past can they develop the strength to create a life of their own making--a life where love and forgiveness never come too late.

More than anything, Jennifer wants to be happy. But when she's embarrassed to step out her door, is happiness even possible?

At 27, Jennifer's out of work, her mom just died, and despite stellar qualifications, every job interview ends in rejection.

Haunted by the teasing, taunts, and fat jokes that defined her childhood, Jennifer blames her unhappiness on her ever-growing waist-band. And she's ready for change.

Messy and real.

Beautiful and harsh.

When Comes The Joy (previously titled Skinny Me) explores one woman's journey along the road of forgiveness, healing, and strength.

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From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets.

When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who is half-Black, half-white--yet feels neither--is amplified.

Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child during the politically charged Jamaican exodus in the 1980s, only to realize they'd come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion--a constant and pernicious reality Evelyn watches her husband and son navigate daily.

Years later, in the aftermath of her son's murder by the police, Evelyn's mother-in-law, Violet, moves in, offering young Kareela a link to the Jamaican heritage she had never fully known. Despite Violet's efforts to help them through their grief, the traumas they carry grow into a web of secrets that threatens the very family they all hold so dear.

In the present day, Kareela, prompted by fear and uncertainty about the new life she carries, must come to terms with the mysteries surrounding her family's past and the need to make sense of both her identity and her future.

Weaving the women's stories across multiple timelines, We Rip the World Apart reveals the ways that simple choices, made in the heat of the moment and with the best of intentions, can have dee and lasting repercussions--especially when people remain stay silent.

Joanna was brought up to believe life is meant to follow a certain path. You meet a wonderful man, get married, have children--all in that order. Maybe, if you're really ambitious, you have a career too. But a career isn't what Joanna wants. She wants a family.

In the early 1970s, at nineteen-years-old, Joanna was the first of her friends to complete steps one and two of the plan. She thought she'd be the first to complete step three as well. Now, thirteen years later, she's still holding onto her dream of having a child.

Of course, life sometimes offers us our dreams in ways we never would have expected.

Can Joanna let go of her expectations, even if it means estranging herself from the family who raised her and, perhaps, the man she loves? What will she do to fulfil the strongest wish of her heart?

His one wish? To escape. Cleanly. Beautifully. Without guilt or uncertainty. Without hurting anyone.

Broken by love, Lincoln Fraser is back in the city of his birth. He's been abandoned, betrayed, and doesn't see how he can ever trust again.

Kali Johnson is stuck in a world that feels too much for her. Her husband's gone, her son won't talk, and her apartment is full of rats. Fearful she's failing at life, all she wants is a second chance to make things right.

When a freak accident places Kali and her son in Lincoln's path, he feels compelled to help this single mother and her child.

Unprepared for the challenge of letting anyone back into his life, Lincoln is faced with a question--continue to shut himself out from the world or slowly let someone in?

Raw, heartbreaking, but full of hope, Behind Our Lives, Book One in the Behind Our Lives Trilogy, is a story that will leave you wanting more.

Her sight's fading. Her world's closing in. And nothing she can do will stop it.

Make it work. That's Kali Johnson's motto. But as each doctor's appointment steals more hope, making it work seems impossible.

When Lincoln Fraser steps back into Kali's world, refusing to step back out of it, Kali feels thrust into a life she never asked for.

As the weeks pass, Kali must make a choice. Will she let fear and frustration rule her, or determine to find beauty and purpose in tragedy?

Powerful and moving, What We See, Book Two in the Behind Our Lives Trilogy, is an honest portrayal of stubborn and complex characters who will draw you into their world and touch your heart.

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What We See is Book Two in a continuing three part story. Please don't read it without first reading Book One, Behind Our Lives. If you do, you'll probably be confused and frustrated.

After tragedy and betrayal, trust comes slowly, love takes work.

Lincoln and Kali are finally in a good place. A place of hope.

But as Kali starts to accept her present and look to the future, her past gets in the way, forcing her to question what she believes about her life and what she wants.

As Lincoln learns the truths Kali kept secret, he must decide whether love is stronger than fear and if forgiveness is worth the pain.

The finale to the Behind Our Lives Trilogy is a story about the power of love to conquer fear even when starting over feels impossible, the power of forgiveness, and the strength of the human heart.

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The Stories We Tell is Book Three in a continuing three part story. Please don't read it without first reading Book One, Behind Our Lives and Book Two, What We See. If you do, you'll probably be confused and frustrated and won't have a great reading experience.

What would you do if you woke up in a hospital bed, only to realize all your dreams were shattered?

Autumn forces her eyes open. Blinding light sends stabs of pain through her head. She blinks, trying to remember, trying to figure out where she is and why she can't move.

But she can't remember.

All she knows is pain, and the fact that her new husband is not by her side.

Evocative and complex.

Honest and emotional.

The second book in the A New Start stand-alone Series, Where There Is Life is a riveting story about love, loss, and finding your way.

The act every woman is supposed to be capable of, she's failing at, over and over again.

A year ago, Tracey Sampson met and married the man who helped her finally believe she is worthy of love, just as she is.

But she's yet to fulfill her greatest dream--to hold her own child in her arms.

Tracey's never been one to give up without a fight, but how far will she go to get her happily-ever-after?

Engrossing and inspiring.

Heart-wrenching and passionate.

As real as it gets.

Whisper of Hope, book 5 in the A New Start stand-alone series bares the heart and soul of a woman pursuing her life's dream despite heartache and disappointment.

Although each book in the series can be read alone, the books are best read chronologically. This is especially true for Whispers of Hope. It's part two of a two part story following Tracey's life. If you want Tracey's full story, start with Forever In My Heart.

Sometimes getting exactly what you want is the worst thing ever.

Dream job? Check. Man to make every woman you know stop and turn? Check. But when having one means giving up the other, what's a girl ... excuse me, woman to do?

Eloise Grant, a successful and driven Public Relations Consultant, has worked her whole life to make sure she never has to depend on anyone but herself.

But when she's offered the promotion of a lifetime, depending on herself means leaving her friends, her family, and the man she loves behind.

Whatever choice she makes, Eloise's life is about to unravel.

Smart and engaging.

Heart wrenching and unpredictable.

By What We Love, book 3 in the A New Start stand-alone series, is the story of a woman desperate to have it all, while battling with memories of a past she'd rather forget.

Tracey Sampson has finally met the man she's ready to start her life with. He's perfect.

But is she?

Struggling with the unknown and desperate for answers, Tracey embarks on a journey to reveal the secrets of a past she vowed she'd never explore.

Heartfelt and honest.

Courageous and compelling.

Forever In My Heart, book 4 in the A New Start stand-alone series, is a deep and passionate read about coming to terms with your imperfections and insecurities in order to let love in.