Don’t Eat With Your Mouth Open

After betrayal destroys her company and turns her private pain into a public scandal, Nia Harper returns to the Chicago family that has always underestimated her.Broke but determined to rebuild, Nia quietly develops Common Table-a shared-kitchen business designed to give neighborhood cooks, bakers, and entrepreneurs an opportunity to succeed. She has the plan, the numbers, and the ambition. What she does not have is room for another betrayal.As Common Table grows, old family wounds reopen and buried secrets threaten everything Nia has worked to create. Guided by her grandmother's warning-"Don't eat with your mouth open"-Nia must learn when silence protects a blessing and when it protects the wrong people.Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open is a powerful literary drama about ambition, family, betrayal, resilience, and the discipline of building in silence. It is an inspiring story for anyone who has ever been overlooked, counted out, or forced to rebuild after losing everything.