New York: William H. Morrow, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's eighth novel - "a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality." One night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman - and now, shes having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the 38 year-olds life. Before Leia can break the news (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachels marriage implodes and she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, has been hiding her increasing dementia. Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmothers affairs in order, but in cleaning out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, she finds, tucked in the attic a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 341 pp.