Penny Hill wrestles with her feelings toward her mother. She finds herself gravitating toward similar life choices despite lack of physical proximity to one another. She fails in the end to avoid the same pitfalls that have spoiled her mother's outlook on life.

A murder shatters the tranquility of small town Picayune, MS. Penny Hill struggles with the details of the ordeal, a man taking the life of the woman he loves. She wrestles to understand the role her family plays in leading up to the murder.

In the sequel to Would Be Twins, Penny continues to cross paths with Booker. She steps into the shoes her grandmother left behind to help ease his brother’s anguish, Bunk left to sit on death row.