Viewing the past through her now adult eyes, MICHELLE can’t unsee her marriage for what it is––a crime that hijacked her life. Desperate to rewind their relationship to a time before her husband PHILIP isolated her, before he invited lovers into their bed, before she felt like another thing he owns, they return to the small Texas town, to the very house, where it all began.

Set in Austin and central Texas, the story follows Michelle from a lonely, naïve teenager in 1987 to the tightly leashed housewife she becomes when she can no longer compartmentalize the unfiltered truth that Philip was her middle-aged, married, Mormon Sunday school teacher and she only fifteen when their relationship began. Her new perception taints the small kindnesses Philip shows their contractor’s fourteen-year-old daughter, and as Michelle’s suspicions fester, she’s forced to choose between staying cocooned in denial or taking responsibility for the shameful choices she’s made to survive and risking a consequential fallout.

"And the Day Came," a 100,000-word work of literary/upmarket fiction, will appeal to readers who enjoyed delving into Mormon subculture and family dysfunction in "Educated" by Tara Westover and the confusion experienced by sexual abuse survivors in "My Dark Vanessa" by Kate Elizabeth Russell.