Julie and Scott Cutter made a deal: two years. Scott will spend two years working as a butler for a rich reality television star and then they will start the family Julie has always dreamed of. But Julie learns she’s approaching prenatal geriatric status, and what’s more, her husband lives in the basement of his celebrity boss’s Manhattan mansion instead of with her, across the East River in Queens. Oh, and Scott casually announces over brunch one morning he doesn’t want kids anymore. Convinced spending an idyllic Fourth of July weekend in the Hamptons will change his mind, Julie makes one last-ditch effort to salvage her dream, only to be confronted instead by her worst nightmare and a dirty little secret that would change the course of her life forever.
Award-Winning Finalist in the Women’s Fiction category of the 2022 American Fiction Awards
East of Manhattan Goodreads page
Mom’s Don’t Have Time to Write essay on Medium.com
Hear Us Roar podcast
Inside the Minds of Authors podcast
Women’s Fiction Day podcast with Women’s Fiction Writers Association
Jess, an inexperienced but eager female craft brewer, must enlist help from her estranged sister and face down sexism to save the family business and, ultimately, her son.
Currently in pre-production for a proof-of-concept short based on the series.