In Their Place

Six novellas. Six days of a wedding week. One family's carefully constructed life begins to unravel.

The Espositos have always been experts at appearances: a polished front of suburban comfort stitched over decades of secrets, coercion, and violence. When Gina Esposito returns to her parents' house to marry, the week meant to bless her new life instead loosens a chain of histories: secret parentages, buried crimes, Soviet spies who never truly left, and a set of women who must decide whether to inherit the empire or burn it down.

At once intimate and panoramic, In Their Place is a novel about what women inherit—names, secrets, loyalties—and what they choose to do with them. If the world taught them to survive by silence, these women answer with noise.