Now a successful actress, Joe Sue’s background is anything but glamorous. Abandoned at birth and shuffled through foster homes, she got her break late one night while she was waitressing at a diner. She won her first Academy Award in a dress she bought at a thrift store.
Even though she’s left her past behind, Joe Sue’s life is anything but perfect. She’s more famous than her actor husband, Syd, and he’s gone constantly chasing fame. Joe Sue is desperate for a child, thinking that will keep her husband home. But miscarriage after miscarriage just leaves her broken and her husband no closer.
There are two constants in Joe’s life: MacThomas Pockets, the former Scottish Special Forces soldier who now serves as her bodyguard and protects her in a way that no one in her life ever has, and the pills that are her nemesis. An addiction brought on by her revolving need to stay up for filming and sleep before the next day of work, Joe Sue knows she’s spiraling out of control. After several unsuccessful stints in rehab, Joe knows she’s dangling by the merest thread, and now her surrogate has disappeared with her baby and is trying to ransom it back to her.
When Joe Sue wakes up in one of her chemically induced hazes in an unfamiliar room, she assumes someone has put her in rehab. But as she keeps telling the voice on the other side of the speaker, cold turkey isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. But that voice has only one concern: helping her get clean in a way they’ve never been able to . . . helping her be the version of herself she wants.
Joe Sue is being offered a gift. And the depths of the sacrifice that is being made on her behalf will shift the axis of her world in ways she could never fathom.