This year’s Summer Reading Challenge (#SRC2018) is lit! It’s officially week two of the biggest reading challenge ever and we’re here to keep you in the loop of what we’re reading each week. Check back each Monday as we dive into our weekly #SRC2018 pick.
Week of May 21: Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland
Abigail Milton’s family has recently come upon financial problems in Britain and have sent Abigail to America to stay with a family friend in order to ease their troubles. But when Abigail arrives in Charleston, she can’t shake the feeling that her new guardian, Douglas Elling, is less than excited to have her in his home. Soon learning to stick close to a governess, Abigail begins to enjoy her new surroundings but when she overhears Douglas’s plan to free a black man from slavery, she can’t help but take up interest in the man’s life. As the two juggle dangerous secrets between them and the consequences of freeing a slave, they’ll find that there’s more to each other than they had ever expected and that first impressions aren’t always what they seem.
Jacqueline Friedland graduated Magna Cum Laude from both the University of Pennsylvania and NYU Law School. She practiced as a commercial litigator at the New York law firms of Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP and Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP. After determining that office life did not suit her, Jacqueline began teaching Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan and working on her first book in her limited spare time. Finally deciding to embrace her passion and pursue writing full time, Jacqueline returned to school to earn her Masters of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, graduating from the program in 2016.
When not writing, Jacqueline is an avid reader of all things fiction. She loves to exercise, watch movies with her family, listen to music, make lists, and dream about exotic vacations. She lives in Westchester, New York with her husband, four children and a Cavalier King Charles. Trouble the Water is her first novel.
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Get a sneak peek at our lineup over on She Reads.
Get a sneak peek at our lineup over on She Reads.
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