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Johanna is not a thief—and she is definitely not sorry.
In the back room at an elite gallery party, forty-something soccer mom Johanna Porter stands face to face with her younger self. The girl in the portrait, La Rosa Blanca, is fierce and fearless, and Johanna sees the great painter she almost was before her lover, the powerful artist Nestor Pinedo, torched her career.
When she cuts the million-dollar masterpiece out of its frame, rolls it up and walks out, it’s not a theft. It’s a rescue.
Hiding out in a shack on the Chesapeake Bay with La Rosa Blanca looking on, Johanna tries to paint again but encounters only the cringe-worthy atrophy of her talent. When she reluctantly goes sailing with the injured surgeon two houses away and chemistry flares between the struggling misanthropes, Johanna realizes that to fulfill the promise of her younger self, she’s got to quit playing it safe.
Battling novice-thief paranoia, impostor syndrome, and mom guilt, she can stay one step ahead of the law. But it will take an act of desperation to become the woman La Rosa Blanca was meant to be.
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“This witty, quick, and emotionally turbulent tale that will have readers cheering for Johanna well after the last page.”
— Booklist
“A fast read with a strong message about women learning to stand on their own, and powerful men who do as they please.”
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Sara Read is cofounder of #momswritersclub. Originally from Washington, DC, she tried the nine-to-five life before moving to rural Virginia to become a flute-maker’s apprentice and traditional fiddle player. A cancer survivor herself, she now has the distinct privilege of caring for cancer patients as a nurse.
January LaVoy, winner of numerous awards for narration, was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. She is an American actress best known for her character Noelle Ortiz on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. In addition to working extensively in narration and television, including roles on Law & Order and All My Children, she has worked on and off Broadway as well as in regional theater.