Warm, funny, and deeply satisfying women's fiction — set in the places summer was made for.
First Came Us
They had the perfect life. Then the past came knocking — and everything changed.
Jack and Ellie Miller have built exactly the life they wanted. Eighteen years of marriage. Three children. A beautiful home in an idyllic Connecticut town. A Yale professorship and a thriving yoga studio. Carpools, soccer games, and bedtimes are their biggest concerns.
Until they aren't.
Jack gets an unwelcome visit from a ghost he thought was long buried — and the secret he's been keeping threatens to unravel everything he's spent eighteen years building.
Ellie receives shocking news that requires immediate action, pulling her attention away from the cracks forming in her marriage before she even knows they're there.
Sydney, their sixteen-year-old daughter, is quietly careening downward in her own dangerous spiral — and her parents are too consumed by their own crises to notice until it may be too late.
Three people. One family. And a series of unexpected challenges that will test everything they thought they knew about each other.
Because a perfect life isn't something you build once. It's something you choose to fight for, every single day.
First Came Us is a deeply felt novel about long-term marriage, the secrets that threaten it, and the family bonds that — if you're lucky — hold even when everything else falls apart.