All Alice wants is to make it to retirement. Her boss has other ideas. As Alice’s team celebrates significant victories in bringing workplace discriminators to justice, their federal investigative unit is served a one-two punch. The head of the agency, angry that Alice plunged the EEOC into a brutal House subcommittee hearing, suspends her indefinitely without pay and closes the office, sending the staff to the four winds. Alice begins a self-spiral of regret and recriminations: her reputation in tatters—her self-esteem at an all-time low. Paralyzed, she watches as her coworkers struggle to pull themselves out of the pit of Alice’s making and forge a path to redemption and self-fulfillment. Will Alice manage to exact the revenge she needs to begin to live again?
Author
An award-winning author, Marie W. Watts, is living her dream of being a writer. Her novel, Tough Trail Home, has received acclaim as a winner of the 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Summer Competition for Fiction - Women’s Genre; Winner in the 2024 Storytrade Book Awards “Regional Fiction ‐ USA Southwest” category; 2024 Speak Up Talk Radio International Firebird Book Award Winner, and The Outstanding Creator Award for Best Fiction Book of Summer 2024 (2nd place). Her novel has garnered reviews such as “inspiring,” “fantastic read,” “beautiful scenery, heart, and hope,” and “a wonderful story about resilience and resourcefulness.” She and her husband live on a ranch in central Texas. In her spare time, she supports a historic house and hangs out with her grandsons. Follow Marie and her stories about life at www.mariewatts.com.
