One Drop

by Alice Wilson-Fried

Ladonis Washington, a bold, smart, and ambitious Black woman, dreams of becoming the first female vice president of the Floating Palace Steamboat Company in New Orleans where she works as the director of public relations. The charter sales coordinator and Ladonis's workplace nemesis, Bunnie Sinclair, is accused of killing the richest man in town. Now, Ladonis has to protect her company from the tarnish of a high-profile murder case. She asks an old friend, who is a renowned lawyer to defend Bunnie. The lawyer in turn asks Ladonis to take on the role of private investigator to secure the evidence he believes will clear Bunnie. In the midst of this mess, Ladonis learns her mother is deathly ill and hurricane Katrina is bearing down on New Orleans. Now, more than ever, Ladonis has to call upon that steely determination that helped her attain her corporate ambitions to face these new life and death obstacles.

206 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2020

About the author

Born and raised in New Orleans. Worked in Public Relations at the Delta Queen Steamboat Company before moving to the Bay Area where I remarried. I have two children, three stepchildren and eight grandchildren. I enjoy tennis and reading. My first published title is a nonfiction, entitled, Menopause, Sisterhood and Tennis. Outside Child:A Novel of Murder and New Orleas is my first published work of fiction and is the first of a trilogy set in modern day, pre-Katrina New Orleans. The second takes place during Katrina and third will have my two main characters solving a mystery while adjusting to their hometown post Katrina. Just recieved word that Outiside Child is a semifinalist for the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award in the South-Best Regional Fiction category."