| Author/Contributor(s): | Kandle, Tawdra |
| Publisher: | Grapevine |
| Date: | 7/6/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Cassandra Tradd is a woman who knows her place.
For more than twenty years, she’s occupied the same pew at the First Baptist church, filled the same water glasses at her mother-in-law's Sunday suppers, and kept the library in Belle Glade, Florida, running. She has two grown children and an adoring, patient man who cooks dinner for her every week. But by the end of one tumultuous summer, Cass is no longer comfortable at Sunday supper, the town she calls home feels like it’s full of strangers, and the man she loves is packing for New York.
The seismic shift begins on a dark stretch of county highway, where a sheriff's deputy shoots a young Black man during a routine traffic stop. Cass's daughter, home from college, is ready to march in protest. Her brothers-in-law, part of the same police department that once included her late husband, close ranks. Belle Glade divides along unsurprising — but nonetheless frustrating — fault lines.
And Cass, the girl from up north who stayed in Belle Glade first for love, then out of grief, gratitude, and habit, learns she can no longer keep the peace by keeping quiet.
But if she isn't Walker’s widow and Loretta’s daughter-in-law, who is she? What does she owe the family that held her up when her world fell apart? And after a lifetime of giving everyone else what they want, what if the answer she needs is something nobody — not even Cass — saw coming?