Rapture By Revenge: Warriors for Equal Rights

by Marie W. Watts

All Alice wants is to make it to retirement. Her boss has other ideas.

As Alice’s team celebrates significant victories in bringing workplace discriminators to justice, their federal investigative unit is served a one-two punch. The head of the agency, angry that Alice plunged the EEOC into a brutal House subcommittee hearing, suspends her indefinitely without pay and closes the office, sending the staff to the four winds.

Alice begins a self-spiral of regret and recriminations: her reputation in tatters—her self-esteem at an all-time low. Paralyzed, she watches as her coworkers struggle to pull themselves out of the pit of Alice’s making and forge a path to redemption and self-fulfillment.

Will Alice manage to exact the revenge she needs to begin to live again?

Genres: Fiction

330 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2022

About the author

An award-winning author, Marie W. Watts, is living her dream of being a writer. Her novel, Tough Trail Home, has received acclaim as a winner of the 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Summer Competition for Fiction - Women’s Genre; Winner in the 2024 Storytrade Book Awards “Regional Fiction ‐ USA Southwest” category; 2024 Speak Up Talk Radio International Firebird Book Award Winner, and The Outstanding Creator Award for Best Fiction Book of Summer 2024 (2nd place).

Her novel has garnered reviews such as “inspiring,” “fantastic read,” “beautiful scenery, heart, and hope,” and “a wonderful story about resilience and resourcefulness.”

She and her husband live on a ranch in central Texas. In her spare time, she supports a historic house and hangs out with her grandsons.

Follow Marie and her stories about life at www.mariewatts.com.

Reviews

[T.A. Munroe · Rating 5 out of 5]

This interesting book assembles a uniquely diverse cast of characters who often struggle with finding their place in the real world, especially after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office they work in is closed. They are forced to leave an environment where they were professionally and personally supported and are challenged to relocate in some cases and find new jobs or personal relationships.

The situation denies Alice the retirement she worked so long for despite her physical disability.

Quiana struggles with social anxiety to the extent she finds it necessary to physically hide herself.

Royce is a trans man working through the stages ao sexual affirmation.

JJ has a prison record.

And there are several others.

Woven throughout are the cases they work such as jobsite discrimination and various forms of sexual harassment.

The main characters are written to be sympathetic but not pitied as they strive to build lives where they can thrive.

[Virginia McCullough · Rating 5 out of 5]

With a ripped from the headlines quality, Watt's offers an insider's peek into a complicated and controversial quest to right past wrongs in workplace conditions, as well as prevent new blocks to equality. Her characters are complex and never stereotyped and show readers the complexity and "ordinariness" of the problems. Because working for equality on all levels has never been a straight uphill climb, the characters themselves are buffeted about by the politics of the moment. I just became aware of the previous books in the series, but this book is a standalone, and the characters will hook you from page one. Highly recommended for readers interested in contemporary novels about contemporary struggles.

[Janet Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Workplace discrimination brought to light, based on true cases, but fictionalized to protect the innocent. An exciting conclusion to this eye-opening series featuring a strong female lead and a cast of quirky characters who all work for a federal investigation agency.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting read