The Opposite of Everyone

A successful lawyer is forced to revisit her traumatic past when her estranged mother goes missing, in this new novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story. Paula Vauss had an unusual childhood, on the road with her free-wheeling, hippie mother. Kai was a roving storyteller who blended Hindu mythology with Southern Oral Tradition to re-invent their history every year. When she was eleven, Paula told the wrong truth at the wrong time, sending her mother to prison and landing herself in foster care. Paula hasn't seen her mother for fifteen years, but this is a Karmic debt, and she's still making all kinds of payments on it. In her current incarnation, she's a tough-as-nails Atlanta attorney with an impressive string of wins. She lives alone and likes it that way, happy with her career, her few close friends, and a string of gentlemen callers. But when her estranged mother goes missing out in Texas, a secret from the ever-mutable past lands on Paula's doorstep, literally, and Paula learns she's not an only child. It's the worst possible time; she's embroiled in a divorce case that will make or break her at her firm, and her client's husband has moved two steps past crazy into dangerous. She enlists the help of Zach Birdwine, an ex-cop and Paula's ex-lover. He hasn't spoken to her since she broke his heart, but with the case heating up, Kai in the wind, and ghosts of her past selves and her past decisions rising, Paula needs his skill set. THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYONE is a story about story itself, how the tales we tell connect us, break us, and define us, and how the endings and beginnings we choose can destroy us or make us whole.