Author Jo Davis will be discussing her title Domestics

Jo is the author of Domestics and a short story titled Smoke. “Today there would be no slamming door. Keith’s grumbling is silenced. He and Brandy are both dead. Sarah Thomas was sitting alone in the middle of her clean home.” So begins the tale of a broken woman, struggling to move past a history of violence and loss. Soon, a new opportunity drops into her life, along with the promise of a fresh start. But, some new beginnings cannot happen until we let go of the past. Well, Sarah’s past is one that refuses to die. In fact, it is haunting her in the eyes of her new abusive employers. She sees herself in the abused women she meets. Sarah also sees a chance to stop the cycle of violence for good. Domestics chronicles a wounded woman’s struggle to end the silent suffering of domestic violence. She justifies the means by the ends, becoming an assassin in housekeeper’s clothing to avenge the victims. As Sarah brutally punishes the violent offenders, she becomes a freedom fighter for the abused. However, too late does she realize that she just may be the one who needs liberating. Smoke Have you ever wanted something so badly, that you’d die for it? Charlie Daniels does. He just doesn’t know it yet. “Smoke” throws a nicotine craving into a pot of madness, stir in incompetence, inflated egos and fear to get one darkly comedic story of a cigarette break, miles up in the blue skies.