Katharine "Kate" Hughes is on the cusp of a dream come true, living as a working artist, when a pandemic shuts the world down, isolating her from her biggest support group: Alcoholics Anonymous. Pressure to create mounts, and Kate's relationship with her best friend and roommate begins to crumble; she spirals into the throes of addiction. As Kate nears rock bottom, she has two choices: seek help, or lose it all-including herself.

Before she became a full-time mom to two under two, Katherine Mansfield was a Golden Quill-nominated and Keystone Press Award-winning journalist for the local Observer-Reporter newspaper, where her byline still, occasionally, appears. She is the one-mamma writer and publisher behind the Substack "first drafts."Momming and writing are currently her whole personality, but Mansfield also enjoys watching classic films with her husband; a good, long coffee date with a friend; and leisurely strolls through cute downtowns. She celebrated seven years of sobriety in September. "Original Works by Katharine Hughes" is Mansfield's debut novel.