Family and Other Calamities

A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news in this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing life and the past, and its secrets, head-on. Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widows grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked her reputation. Not that Dawn dwells on the past. Well, hardly. When she returns to Baltimore with her husbands ashes, she cant avoid it. In fact, shes diving into decades of backstabbing and treachery for her first trip home in years. Shes looking at you, Joe Perkins. Her former mentor, whose explosive expos about big-city corruption is being turned into a slanderous movie, is also back in town. The villain of the piece? Dawn. The good news is that this could all be a chance to resetheal family wounds, admit to her own mistakes, and maybe even reconnect with the one who got away. Oh, and get even with Joe any way she can. With the surprising help of an up-and-coming journalist and a legendary R & B diva, Dawn will finally set the record straight. Returning home might just be the biggest story in Dawns life, a fresh startand happy endingshe never expected.