Reckonings

For eighteen years, Roxy has kept her family intact by keeping secrets. Now she is stretched thin by four children, a draining job, and a cramped apartment. Her one hope is a community theater production she is convinced could change her family's prospects. For her, the play is a personal reckoning as well as an escape, and the only route forward she can see.

Then the man who wrecked her life eighteen years ago returns to town. He has begun winning over her relatives and neighbors and acts as though the past is settled. Roxy knows exactly who he is, but nobody around her does. As pressure builds from every side, the silences she has maintained to shield her loved ones start to give way, putting her marriage, her daughter, and her family's stability at risk.

The novel follows a woman who is running out of time and a truth that will not stay hidden. It explores survival, the cost of staying quiet, and the endurance of hope, with the stage as the one place where Roxy might finally be heard.