But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But desperation and fear leads her to hide out in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia, unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks.īack in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life.
It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. She is married, the mother of three and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country.but can they escape the secrets they left behind? As a former President of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, she established a signature female empowerment program known as the Women's Initiative. She is an accomplished presenter and leader. A corporate attorney, Wanda has worked in the legal departments of some of America's top Fortune 100 companies.
Wanda is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Crime Writers of Color. It was serialized in Entertainment Weekly and selected as a Marie Claire book club pick. It was named as one of the "Best Books of 2021" by Hudson Booksellers and selected as the #1 Top Pick for Library Reads by librarians across the country. Morris is the acclaimed author of All Her Little Secrets, which has been praised by Karin Slaughter as "brilliantly nuanced" and reviewed by the Boston Globe, LA Times, New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, and South Florida Sun Sentinel among others.
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