the color of Chair

She built her whole life proving she could survive anything. She never planned on having to survive him. Tori Marshall is the strong friend. The one who answers the 2 a.m. call, absorbs everyone else's crisis, and walks into her federal office every morning without a hair out of place. She has a doctorate, a director's title, and fifteen years of a flawless career ... and a bruise she covers every day before anyone can see it. Marcus is charming, ambitious, and dangerous in a way she never let herself name. When his abuse and his financial crimes collide, Tori is forced into an impossible position: protect the image she's spent a lifetime building, or tell the truth and lose everything. The Color of the Chair is a gripping, emotionally raw psychological novel about the women who hold everyone else together ... and what it costs them. It's a story about the difference between surviving and healing, about the family members who'd rather look away than look closely, and about the one small, stubborn act of finally sitting down. Told with the same unflinching honesty that defines the Pavement Psychology series, this debut novel asks the question at the center of all of them: what happens when you refuse to take the seat you've been offered? For readers of Tayari Jones's An American Marriage and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies ... a story about the lie that perfection tells, and the truth that finally breaks it open.