I chose late August as the best time to release Let Us Begin because the long days of summer will soon end. The weather will change, and I love sitting inside when the weather is cool with a good book and a cup of tea. I imagined that my readers might feel the same.

I have shared that Let Us Begin is about the struggle to achieve the American dream, but I haven't shared that it is also a portrait of modern marriage. It begins as a love story of two young people with a common dream. But the pressures of daily life and the challenges of surviving can test even the best marriages.

You are invited to meet Salvador and Luisa and spend a rainy day rooting for them and their children in this story of love, loss, triumph, and betrayal as this American family fights for a place to belong and call home.