REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES

FORMAT: Novel
GENRE: Psychological domestic suspense

East coast novelist, Telli, is overwhelmed. She’s navigated a move, a proposal, a shotgun elopement, and the unexpected loss of her partner, Tom, all in the space of a month. Believing his suicide was her fault, she questions whether to bring their baby into the world at all, especially after learning about the childhood trauma he revealed before his death. What disturbing personality traits would be passed on to their child?

When Anna, Tom’s domineering mother, misses his funeral, Telli puts aside their tenuous relationship to check on her and discovers the dementia that she and Tom had merely suspected has advanced almost overnight. Anna struggles to keep the wall of denial she’s built around their harrowing family tragedy from cracking and crumbling, but even her trusted escape – her houseplants – can’t stop the memories from surfacing.

The more Anna reveals, the more Telli can’t shake the feeling that something is amiss about Tom’s death. With a writer’s instinct for piecing stories together, she retraces Tom’s final hours and finds a truth she isn’t prepared for.Told through intimate family dynamics using a past and present format, Rock Paper Scissors explores what drives a person to become an antagonist.