New York: MIRA, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosies daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willows bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosies divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosies behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed." Bound in is a printed letter from the author to the reader describing how this book was an attempt to understand the story of her own mother, who was much like the Rosie in the book, and who died when she was just nine. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp.