After the Rotting

Sydney is a vibrant young woman looking forward to her wedding despite the fact she would never have considered inviting her dad, Ed, to attend, let alone walk her down the aisle. He has been absent her entire life, and this is no different. Her mom opens a fissure in her world when she divulges that she is illegitimate and the name on her birth certificate is wrong. Thrown into a tailspin of battling the knowledge that her mom, brother, and sister knew this secret, as well as re-orienting her entire childhood in light of this revelation, Syd is consumed with untangling the confusing labyrinth of trying to remember knowing her biological dad up until she was five and the violent circumstances that tore him from her. Even with the faith she found as a young girl as her anchor, Sydney fears she will lose her path and her fiancé as she tries to understand how her family could have lied to her for decades and how her dad could have left her to endure Ed’s indifference and her step-dad’s abuse because if she can’t find a way to forgive her family and move forward with her life, this will destroy her future too.