Happy Native American Heritage Month, Historical Fiction Fans

Newlywed Ruth Applebaum is a law school graduate settling into married life in an upper-class Philly neighborhood, determined to endear herself to her exacting mother-in-law. But Ruth is also fiercely independent, honest, and intelligent, and when she discovers one of the housewives she’s befriended is hiding a dark secret, she encourages her fellow classmates at the etiquette school her mother-in-law signed her up for to finally push back against the status quo.

Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a teacher who spends her nights filling in at her family’s pub meets a married Protestant barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members and soon finds herself falling into an affair. She’s drawn into his sophisticated world, but when the father of one of her students is brutally beaten, it sets in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything and everyone Cushla holds dear.