Sagebrush Baby

Violet’s real life sucks.

While her golden-boy brother collects milestones like trophies—We bought a house! We got married! We’re expecting!—Violet is stuck.
Stuck working at Dollar General.
Stuck in a single-wide trailer with her vodka-soaked mother.
And stuck with a boyfriend who refuses to have children…with her.

To escape, Violet becomes someone else. Online, she’s DreamsWilted1: a tragic yet noble mother of two autistic children, dishing out grim warnings about the horrors of marriage and motherhood to a small internet audience.
It’s all a lie, of course. But for once, Violet is seen.

So when a new man moves into her dead-end town, she sees an opportunity to bring her wilted dreams to life. She becomes pregnant. And this time, she goes viral. Suddenly, she’s no longer faking a story, she’s living it.

But when the past catches up—and one of her followers gets too close to the truth—Violet is forced to do the unthinkable to keep her story alive.