Now that her husband George is dead, middle-aged homemaker Alice Owens thinks his oppressive reign over her life has ended--but she is wrong. George thwarts her attempts at freedom, mentally and physically, from beyond the grave.
Back from a routine grocery-shopping trip, Alice discovers her husband George slumped over their kitchen table, as dead as her love for him. Hoping it's the beginning of bringing her strangled life to an end, she begins preparing for the arrival of her adult children--a daughter who hates her and a needy son--who will inevitably show up for the funeral. But while cleaning out George's belongings, Alice stumbles across enigmatic documents linking him to an African-American charity and a heinous crime committed over thirty years prior. Alice finds herself grappling not only with memories of her marriage's turbulent past, but with murder and infidelity from George's secret double life pushing themselves into her present. Will Alice finally gain the freedom she's always desired? Or will George's secrets take her over the edge?
Back from a routine grocery-shopping trip, Alice discovers her husband George slumped over their kitchen table, as dead as her love for him. Hoping it's the beginning of bringing her strangled life to an end, she begins preparing for the arrival of her adult children--a daughter who hates her and a needy son--who will inevitably show up for the funeral. But while cleaning out George's belongings, Alice stumbles across enigmatic documents linking him to an African-American charity and a heinous crime committed over thirty years prior.
Alice finds herself grappling not only with memories of her marriage's turbulent past, but with murder and infidelity from George's secret double life pushing themselves into her present.
Will Alice finally gain the freedom she's always desired? Or will George's secrets take her over the edge?