About the Book

After surviving a dysfunctional childhood caring for her alcohol and drug addicted mother while her father buried himself in his criminal law practice, thirty-nine-year-old attorney Maeve Shaw has painstakingly constructed the perfect life. Her husband, Patrick, is a handsome senior manager at a prestigious consulting firm. They have two adorable boys, Declan and Seamus. And if Maeve just keeps her billable hours up and her mouth shut, she could actually have a shot at making partner at her male-run law firm.

But things begin to fall apart when Maeve discovers her perfect marriage may be a sham. She is determined to keep her family together, but her efforts to bring the sexy back in her marriage are thwarted by her latest case: Maeve must represent a mother accused of killing her opioid-addicted daughter. Will Maeve be able to save her marriage and keep secret the childhood demons the trial threatens to expose? Or will everything she has worked for crumble as darkness overtakes Maeve once again

About the Author

Melissa Manning first caught the writing bug when she took fourth place in a city-wide writing competition in elementary school. Though she succumbed to the pressure to choose a safe, lucrative career, her desire to write never left. She is now a recovering lawyer writing and living in Chicago with her husband, three children, and cat Kermit. Darkness Drops Again is her first novel.