Nancy E. Johnson

A promise could betray you. It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to - and was forced to abandon - when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward,...