Iris Evans

She's playing chess. They're playing checkers. Janet grew up watching her father rule the streets. The King taught her everything: how to think, how to move, how to survive. Then someone killed him.

Six months after Mitch’s unforgettable proposal, he and Mary begin their next chapter together as husband and wife. Five years later, Mitch is thriving in the NBA and Mary is opening her own art studio. Life looks picture-perfect…

It’s been ten months since Mary began therapy, slowly learning what healing looks like. With the support of those around her and Mitch still by her side, she’s finding her way back to herself. But their relationship is being tested in ways neither of them expected.

Mary has lived with a heavy secret, hiding the scars of an abusive past and struggling to navigate a world that doesn’t know the real her. At sixteen, she’s on the brink of unraveling, with everything she’s kept hidden threatening to surface. Mitch, her devoted best friend, has always...