Woven into the story is an eye-opening look at what it is to fight all the -isms of being Black and female in America. Then comes danger, when she realizes something definitely illegal is going on within the company. The first-person narrative will hold the reader captive as Ellice struggles under a tremendous burden of moral and ethical issues, both personal and professional. What appears to be suicide is determined to be murder, and having been hastily promoted as his replacement, she becomes a prime suspect. One frosty January morning, she arrives for an early morning meeting and finds her boss dead. “Every lie you tell, every secret you keep, is a fragile little thing that must be protected and accounted for,” says Ellice. That’s a big lie to live, along with those she tells to keep her past hidden. Sometimes she shares those sheets with her married white boss. Now a corporate lawyer with an Ivy League law degree in midtown Atlanta, she luxuriates in Italian sheets and a Prada coat. Ellice Littlejohn grew up poor and Black in rural Chillicothe, Georgia, where she left a lot of secrets behind.
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