"Years ago Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn't date. Her carefully cultivated world is upended when her childhood hero, Francis Keen, is brutally murdered. Francis was the woman behind the famous advice column, Dear Constance, and her words helped Alex through some of her darkest times. When Alex...

"When a publisher of a struggling independent weekly newspaper in Florida's Panhandle exposes his friend and beloved Pensacola philanthropist as an embezzler, he's gone too far in his uncovering of secrets of the town's feuding members and their corruption, racism, and injustice. He's blamed when someone is found dead, and more than his reputation is at stake"--Provided by the publisher.