After Everyone Else

"After Everyone Else is about how Bailey and her marriage are tested by a demanding job, a challenging child and murder charges of her ex-husband a famous TV chef who she hasn't seen in 20 years and yet her DNA is all over his apartment and his body. It's about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love After Everyone Else is told alternatively in now and then chapters. The book opens with Bailey facing murder charges for killing her ex-husband, Elliott, who has become a famous tv chef. The "then" portion explores the terrain of Bailey contemplating marriage and becoming a mother. She didn't have a mother growing up nor did she have a female role model. How will that influence her views of motherhood? Bailey quickly learns ... walls don't talk back but children do. Bailey tries and tries again to balance her burgeoning design business, with her challenging job as a mother. Bailey must also balance her husband and her enigmatic lawyer who have doubts about her innocence. After Everyone Else poses the provocative question "who do you put first, your husband or your children? At its core it is a story about how our past is never really gone, how forgiveness is hard but necessary, and the "resilient" love we save for the person we love after everyoneelse"--
In After Everyone Else, Bailey and her marriage are tested by a demanding job, new challenges in motherhood, and murder charges when her ex-husband who she hasn’t seen in 20 years turns up dead and she becomes the primary suspect in the investigation.
From the acclaimed author of Before Anyone Else comes a captivating new novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. Bailey thought she’d gotten her happy ending. She is married to the man she loves, she has started a family, and her design business is flourishing. But when Bailey’s ex-husband, a famous TV chef, is found murdered with her DNA all over his apartment and body, she is suddenly facing murder charges in a high-profile case. Already burdened by the demands and challenges of marriage, motherhood, and her career, Bailey now must do everything she can to prove her innocence. But it’s the ones she thought would surely be on her side—her enigmatic lawyer and her husband—who might be doubting her innocence the most. Alternating between the past and present, After Everyone Else chronicles the grip of the past, the challenges of forgiveness, and the resilient love we save for the person we love after everyone else.