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Born in 1954 in Easton, Maryland, Ruby Mae came of age in a world that had already decided what a Black girl's life was worth. What followed was a half-century journey through the darkest corridors of American life: the segregated back roads of the Eastern Shore, the locked wards of a state hospital, the sterile violence of forced sterilization. She loved men who couldn't stay. She left a daughter behind, repeating the only pattern she knew.

4J is a raw, unflinching novel about seven strangers who meet in the psychiatric ward of Sovah Health Hospital in Danville, Virginia, and form an unlikely family. Maya, Vanessa, Marcus, Cody, Tiffany, James, and Dr. Patricia Okonkwo each arrive at 4J carrying the weight of their own mental health struggles bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, addiction, and depression.

Emily Cotton, a CDC epidemiologist, and Charles Montgomery, a Naval Intelligence general, meet by chance in the thin mountain air of Aspen Creek, Colorado. Both are workaholics on forced vacation. Both are running from loneliness. Neither expects to fall in love. Five days later, they return to their separate lives—and the world changes forever.

What would you sacrifice for your best friend? And when does loyalty become enabling? Jake has it all—a six-figure job, a beautiful girlfriend, and a carefully planned future. His best friend Marcus has... well, Marcus has Jake. And another Venmo request. For twelve years, Jake has been Marcus's safety net. Late rent, car repairs, "emergency pizza situations"—Jake's always been there with his wallet open and no questions asked. That's what best friends do, right?

They share the same face, but their lives couldn't be more different and for Elena Castellano, that difference is destroying her from the inside out. Elena and Sophia are identical twins, mirror images in every physical way. But while Sophia glides through life collecting achievements, admirers, and opportunities with seemingly effortless grace, Elena struggles in her shadow overlooked, underestimated, and consumed by a jealousy so intense it threatens to poison everything she touches.