It’s the spring of 1990. The Berlin Wall has fallen, the Cold War is over, and the world is reinventing itself. In Houston, Ginger and her husband Steve are riding high on ambition, status, and the promise of limitless wealth. But when Steve’s latest financial scheme collapses, the federal government comes knocking—and everything Ginger thought was secure slips away. On the run from her past, Ginger flees not only her career and marriage but even the trappings of her carefully built life. From a bohemian refuge in Knoxville to the moneyed allure of Zurich, from the ruins of Berlin to the stark gray of Moscow, she is forced to confront what she truly values. Is freedom found in luxury, in love, or in the courage to start over? Written in the 1990s, Ginger’s Reckoning has become an unexpected slice of history—a vivid portrait of the yuppie dream at the moment it began to crumble. For readers of women’s fiction, literary fiction, and historical drama, Ginger’s story is both a time capsule of the late twentieth century and a timeless exploration of ambition, loss, and resilience. Cynthia Coe is the author of several nonfiction books on spirituality, including her newest book, "Considering Birds & Lilies: Finding Peace & Harmony with the Everyday World Around Us." Her first novel is "Runaway Kitty." She lives and writes on her farm in Tennessee. Learn about her other books at www.sycamorecove.org.