PART 1 - Washington, DC 2018

Annie's fate becomes entwied with the wealthy Clark family's abusive history. Her first love is inturrupted at the end of a New England sumer when her handsome, sweet boyfriend's family falls apart and she is the target of destruction. She is drawn back into the Clarks' orbit years later. Violence and dark family secrets return after the birth of her second child and a devastating post partum psychosis. EDWARD, a contemporary novel, explores whether love can prevail against the force of generational violence and taboos.