In this new novel, Jo Piazza – the bestselling author ofThe Knock Off and her memoir, How to Be Married, explores what happens when a woman wants it all—political power, marriage, and happiness—but isn’t sure just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get it.

Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. Still reeling from a presidential election that shocked and divided the country and inspired by the chance to make a difference, she’s left behind her high-powered job in Silicon Valley and returned, with her husband Max and their three young daughters, to her Pennsylvania hometown to run for office. But once the campaign gets underway, Charlotte is blindsided by just how dirty her opponent is willing to fight, how harshly she is judged by the press and her peers, and how exhausting it becomes to navigate a marriage with an increasingly ambivalent and often resentful husband. When the opposition uncovers a secret that could threaten not just her campaign but everything Charlotte holds dear, she has to decide just how badly she wants to win and at what cost.

This is a searing, suspenseful story of political ambition, marriage, class, sexual politics, and infidelity – and a portrait of what it takes for a woman to run for national office today.

 

Jo Piazza is an award-winning journalist and editor who has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, New York Magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, Elle, and Salon. She has appeared on CNN, NPR, Fox News, BBC, and MSNBC. Jo received a Masters in Journalism from Columbia, a Masters in Religious Studies from NYU and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.