Sadeqa Johnson

In 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, the lives of 15-year-old Ruby Pearsall, whose taboo affair threatens her dreams of being the first in her family to attend college, and Eleanor Quarles, who hopes having a baby will gain her husband’s wealthy family’s acceptance, collide in the most unexpected of ways.

A stay at home mom contemplating the drudgery of her life receives a phone call that threatens everything she holds dear and must return to her childhood home to grapple with an ex-boyfriend and several old, buried secrets.