A candy-apple red Ford Mustang is parked outside my building. Unmistakable. My Aunt Daisy, the driver, is an audacious woman that no one in our family actually speaks to. They only speak about herâand not glowingly. Still, she is part of my escape plan âŚ
1928, Los Angeles:
The newly-built Hotel Somerville is the hotspot for the city's glittering African-American elite. It embodies prosperity and dreams of equality for allâespecially Daisy Washington. An up-and-coming journalist, Daisy anonymously chronicles fierce activism and behind-the-scenes Hollywood
scandals in order to save her family from poverty. But power in the City of Angels is also fueled by racism, greed, and betrayal. And even the most determined young woman can play too many secrets too far âŚ
1968, Chicago:
For Frankie Saunders, fleeing across America is her only escape from an abusive husband. But her rescuer is her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, still reeling from her own shattered past. Frankie doesn't want to know what her aunt is up to so long as Daisy can get her
to LAâand safety. But Frankie finds thereâs no hiding from long-held secretsâor her own surprising strength.
Daisy will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the pastâno matter the damage. And Frankie will come up against hard choices in the face of unexpected passion. Both must come to grips with what they need, what theyâve left behindâand all that lies ahead âŚ