Two sisters on the run-one from the law, the other from social shame. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. After news of Huxley’s murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. 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-two-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. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? (Nov.From the acclaimed 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. Agent: Lori Galvin, Aevitas Creative Management. The fast pacing doesn’t overwhelm the deep dive into Ellice’s inner life. Morris gives her flawed lead plenty to struggle with, including a secret, ex-con brother workplace sexism and racism and an awkward encounter with her lover’s widow. She becomes increasingly anxious when she’s interviewed by the police, who are treating the death as a homicide. She’s further stunned to be immediately promoted to fill Michael’s role before she has a chance to decide whether she wants the position. Freaked out, Ellice doesn’t report her grim discovery and acts surprised when the news reaches her. But that all changes when she arrives for an early morning meeting with her white boss, Houghton’s general counsel and her lover, Michael Sayles, and finds him dead from a gunshot to the head, apparently self-inflicted. Ellice Littlejohn, a 40-something Black woman, is relatively content as a senior member of the legal department at Atlanta’s Houghton Transportation Company. Attorney Morris puts her experiences as a Black woman navigating the corridors of corporate power to good use in her strong debut, a legal thriller.

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