Soft Money

Four Black San Francisco native women built an empire together: a wine label, a downtown members club, and a skincare line.

Marie Calloway grew up on Harbor Road in Hunters Point. Her mama cleaned houses in Sea Cliff. Her daddy drove the 29-Sunset for thirty-eight years. Marie was always the good one - the church one, the patient one, the one who saved every tip from her shifts at the Top of the Mark and put it into a stock account because a regular told her to. Eight years later she's worth seventy-four million dollars and lives in a Pacific Heights penthouse with a view of the bridge. But she still eats at Frisco Fried. Still sends her mama money every Sunday. Still believes in God, in good men, and in keeping her circle tight.

Her circle is three women: Angel, Ebony, and Imani. Together they call themselves the Glow Girls.

Then a sleazy private banker named Willie Pierce - who pitched them an investment vehicle that afternoon - turns up dead in a Fairmont suite three hours after they walked out of it. With Marie's lipstick on the wine glass. A note in her handwriting that Marie did not write. Four point two million dollars missing from an account only the four of them could touch.

Someone is framing her.

In seventy-two hours Marie has to figure out who and why before the next move on the board hits one of the other three. The villain is outside the circle. The sisterhood is the unkillable thing.

From the steps of a pink Victorian on Andover Street to the bench outside Bob's on Innes Avenue, from a federal courthouse on Golden Gate Avenue to a Sacramento hotel suite at four in the morning, SOFT MONEY is the first novel in The Glow Girls series - a steamy, smart, San Francisco-set literary thriller about Black women who walk into everything on their feet.

For readers of Tia Williams, Brit Bennett, Zakiya Dalila Harris, and Liane Moriarty.

Book 1 of The Glow Girls series. A novel of San Francisco and Black women and the things they do not, in this lifetime, let go of.