The Melting Season

A tender, provocative story about the power of friendship, the thrill of self-discovery, and the strength it takes to escape the past.

Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isnt hers. Shes just left the only home shes ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. Shes also left behind her deepest, most shameful secrets-among them a dysfunctional family shes never quite been able to escape and a marriage whose most intimate moments have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought.

But running away from the past isnt as easy as she had hoped. When Catherine reaches Las Vegas, she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she had sworn shed keep hidden, and teach her what human connection really means. Armed with this new knowledge, she is finally emboldened to uncover the truth about her family, come to understand what destroyed her marriage, and prevent her troubled sister from repeating her mistakes.

Deeply compassionate and unflinchingly bold, The Melting Season is the story of an indelible characters journey from isolation to belonging, as well as an honest look at the things we feel we deserve from our lives- and how far we will go to find them.