Blurb：
After enduring decades of her son Mitchell's cruelty, sixty-year-old Constance Parrish makes a shocking escape from her gilded cage. But when the ivy-league educated Mitchell destroys her precious journals at his wife Jessica's urging, he unknowingly awakens a sleeping giant.
Discover how the "poor, uneducated woman" secretly built Hearth & Thread - a multi-million dollar quilting empire - while raising Mitchell and funding his BMW lifestyle. Watch as Constance teams up with Beverly "Bev" Dunn, the razor-sharp business magnate, to turn her grandson's baptism at the exclusive Black Creek Polo & Hunt Club into a scorching public reckoning.
This razor-sharp family drama answers:
- What dark secret connects Mitchell's Yale acceptance letter to Constance's calloused hands?
- Why does Edmund Pearce, Constance's ex-husband, panic when he discovers Hearth & Thread?
- How will Teddy Brandt react when his "Bad Nana" stops being the family punching bag?
A searing exploration of modern family power dynamics perfect for fans of tense mother/son confrontations and underdog revenge stories.
Content：
§PROLOGUEThe dress wasn't just a dress.
It was a peace offering.
A bridge.
A silent plea wrapped in silk and good intentions.
It hung before her, a whisper of dove-gray chiffon in the hushed, carpeted sanctuary of Nordstrom’s eveningwear department.
Constance Parrish reached out a hand, her fingers, worn from decades of creation, hesitating just before they could touch the delicate fabric.
This was for Leo’s christening.
Her grandson.
A milestone she refused to be erased from.
"Mom, don't."
The voice, sharp and cold as breaking glass, sliced through the quiet.
Her son, Mitchell, snatched the dress from its hanger.
He held it at arm's length as if it were contaminated.
His face, the one she had memorized from the moment he was born, was a mask of pure, undiluted contempt.
"Seriously? This? You look like you're going to a barn dance."
§01
The insult landed with the physical force of a slap.
Constance flinched, her hand retracting as if burned.
"Mitch, it's a lovely dress," she said, her voice smaller than she intended. "It's classic."
"It's dated," he snapped, his eyes darting around the department, checking to see if anyone was watching. "It's… you. And that’s the problem."
He shoved the dress back into the hands of a bewildered sales associate.
"We'll find something else," he said, though his tone made it clear that "we" did not include her input.
He grabbed her arm, his grip surprisingly tight. "Come on. Jessica’s mom is handling the toast. And for God's sake, don't talk to any of my partners from the firm. Just smile."
Every word was a nail hammered into the coffin of her hopes for the day.
She tried to pull her arm away. "Mitchell, let go of me."
The resistance, small as it was, seemed to enrage him.
He pushed her.
Not a gentle shove, but a hard, angry thrust that sent her stumbling backward.
Her heel caught on the plush carpeting, and the world tilted.
Constance fell.
She landed in a graceless heap on the floor, the dove-gray of the carpet a perfect match for the dress she would never wear.
The curated silence of Nordstrom shattered.
Every head turned.
Every pair of eyes—sales associates, wealthy women with shopping bags, a young couple admiring watches—was fixed on the old woman sprawled on the floor.
And on the handsome, well-dressed man who had just pushed her there.
Her son.
§02
The drive home was a monument to silence.
A thick, suffocating silence that felt heavier than any argument.
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