On the surface, Monique Pearson’s life appears ’picture-perfect’. Having lived through a traumatic childhood, Monique seems to have overcome her early hardships. She has her devoted husband, Reverend Neal Pearson, she is First Lady of their prominent church, and she is loved and respected by everyone in the congregation-everyone except her mother-in-law, who looks down on Monique’s humble background and has never felt that she was good enough for her son. There are ugly, sordid secrets lurking just beneath the surface of Monique’s storybook life. Things are not as they seem. Demons from Monique’s past and shameful secrets she now keeps threaten to destroy the perfect image she has worked so hard to portray. Monique may lose the life she enjoys and the man she loves when betrayal and violence come together to expose...The Secrets of a First Lady.