Sweet Jane – Book One in the Unbreakable Texas Women Series

The hardest person to forgive is the one who made you.

By six, Janie already knows what most children never have to learn: vodka doesn’t just make Mama mean—it devastates a childhood. In the dust of 1950s Odessa, Texas, she vows she will never become her mother.

At sixteen she runs west as the Summer of Love begins. Freedom is what she chases. The same old patterns of pain are what she finds.

Seventeen years later, Jane looks like she has won. Sober. Married. Working toward her graduate degree. A life rebuilt from the ground up. Then her estranged mother’s death pulls her back to Odessa, and the past she has spent years outrunning finally finds her. Old wounds. Buried truths. A discovery that forces her to question everything she believed about the woman who raised her—and the woman she has become.

Sweet Jane is a dual-timeline novel of family secrets, generational wounds, and the long, unglamorous work of healing. For readers of Kristin Hannah, Sue Monk Kidd, and Jeannette Walls.