After the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, but decades before #MeToo, Lily Stokes grows up in a small North Carolina town caught between a flamboyant Southern belle mother and a rebellious half-sister. The mother has a loaded past and a wayward boyfriend. All of them have secret lovers. Sleeping with Patty Hearst is an edgy look at small-town North Carolina during the 1970s, exploring love, loss and what it means to miss someone forever.

Moore, who lives in Raleigh, is a former fiction editor of Carolina Wren Press (now Blair). A native of NC, she is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. For more than 25 years, Moore has ghost-written for various clients in the Triangle. This is her debut novel.

“Sleeping with Patty Hearst is a dark, engrossing novel, spiked with humor … This is a masterfully written story of hope, love, lust and revenge that kept me engaged right up to the satisfying denouement.” – Anna Jean Mayhew, award-winning author of The Dry Grass of August