![]() ![]() However, Grace’s anti-gay podcaster father, Levi Mitchell, has discovered MacKenzie’s books and launches a campaign against her. MacKenzie has been fearful of coming out since Brooke’s death, but a catharsis has made her brave enough to author an autobiography also, her queer student Grace has figured out her secret and befriends her. Over time, however, she feels that keeping her secret has “suffocated her life” her troubles are only exacerbated by the prison release of her dangerous brother, Austin, who seeks to settle an old score. Through her novels’ fearless female characters, she gives voice to her own truest desires and outspoken perspectives. She disguises herself with a pseudonym inspired by her former lover Brooke Skipstone, who was murdered in the 1970s (and who shares a name with the author of this novel). ![]() Her “greatest happiness” is to stealthily publish erotically charged lesbian romance novels loosely based on her own history. Taylor Baird MacKenzie is a long-term substitute teacher and writer in the conservative, rural Alaskan town of Clear.At 70, she remains closeted, and she’s been unhappily married to a man for four decades. An aging lesbian finally discovers and voices her truth in Skipstone’s novel. ![]()
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