The release date for the English version of 'Prom Mom' by
Laura Lippman is Jul 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The story of Amber Glass, who is compelled to return to her childhood city and the prom date who shattered all she was aiming for, is told in Laura Lippman's New York Times bestseller. Amber Glass is a desperate person who is trying to escape her tabloid past.
Throughout her adult life, Amber Glass has made every effort to keep her hometown of Baltimore at a distance. She fears that there, people will always refer to her as "Prom Mom"—the girl who killed her unborn child on prom night because her date, Joe Simpson, left her to go after the girl he really liked. However, when events force Amber to return to the city, she learns that there is hope for a second chance—as long as she avoids Joe, who is now a prosperous developer of commercial real estate and is dedicated to his wife Meredith, a plastic surgeon.
The issue is that Amber finds it impossible to avoid Joe. And Joe finds that, if nothing else, she remembers the boy he was and the man he promised to be, making it harder and harder for him to ignore Amber. The two are gradually drawn to one another and eventually breach the line they've been trying not to cross against the bizarre backdrop of 2020 and early 2021.
After that, Joe asks Amber to assist him in doing the unimaginable.