After Everyone Else
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781684428403
Description: "After Everyone Else is about how Bailey and her marriage are tested by a demanding job, a challenging child and murder charges of her ex-husband a famous TV chef who she hasn't seen in 20 years and yet her DNA is all over his apartment and his body. It's about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love After Everyone Else is told alternatively in now and then chapters. The book opens with Bailey facing murder charges for killing her ex-husband, Elliott, who has become a famous tv chef. The "then" portion explores the terrain of Bailey contemplating marriage and becoming a mother. She didn't have a mother growing up nor did she have a female role model. How will that influence her views of motherhood? Bailey quickly learns ... walls don't talk back but children do. Bailey tries and tries again to balance her burgeoning design business, with her challenging job as a mother. Bailey must also balance her husband and her enigmatic lawyer who have doubts about her innocence. After Everyone Else poses the provocative question "who do you put first, your husband or your children? At its core it is a story about how our past is never really gone, how forgiveness is hard but necessary, and the "resilient" love we save for the person we love after everyone else"--