A Clean Slate | Synopsis

A Clean Slate chronicles the days of Kelly McGraw, a woman who suddenly can't remember the last five months of her life, a time during which she was dumped by her soon-to-be fiancé and laid off by the company she thought would make her partner. Overwhelmed and confused but otherwise feeling wonderful, she begins to realize that she has A Clean Slate in life. She has more than enough money from the severance package she'd received after being laid off. She's not tied down by a relationship or anything else for that matter. She can do anything she wants, go anywhere she wants, be anything she wants to be, but what, exactly, does she want? The reader follows Kelly on an adventure that includes a shopping spree, a makeover, an internship with a bad-boy British photographer, her search to discover what caused her memory loss, her boyfriend's desire to come crawling back, a photo shoot in the Caribbean, her first one night stand ever, and, eventually, a brutal discovery that will cause her to reevaluate both her old and new lives. A Clean Slate was called a "page turner" by the Chicago Tribune and given a starred review by Booklist.