Haverford Author Debuting New Novel March 15 In Wayne

UPDATE: The launch party for "When Enemies Offend Thee" has been postponed.

HAVERFORD, PA — A Haverford author will have her new book released this weekend and is hosting a launch party at a Main Line book store.

Haverford's Sally Whitney — author of "Surface and Shadow" — is debuting her second novel "When Enemies Offend Thee" on Sunday, March 15.

The novel was published March 1 by Pen-L Publishing.

The new thriller explores the conviction of a woman determined to punish the man who assaulted her.

See a synopsis of the novel below:

Recently widowed, Clementine Loftis returns to her hometown in North Carolina looking for comfort and peace. Instead, she finds an angry former high-school classmate who sexually assaults her in a bizarre attempt to settle an old score.

When her lack of evidence prevents police from charging him, Clementine vows to get even on her own. After her first attempt doesn’t pan out, she escalates her effort. When that fails, she escalates again ... and again.

Clementine’s determination to make her attacker pay for what he’s done drives her to walk a fine, dangerous line between vengeance and justice, making her question who she really is and whether she can ever again be the woman she wants to be.

For now, she has the righteous furor of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo plus the cunning persistence of Amy Dunne in Gone Girl.

Whitney is hosting a launch party for her new novel on Sunday, March 15 in Wayne.

The party will be held at 2 p.m. at Main Point Books, 116 N. Wayne Ave. in Wayne.

Whitney will give a reading from the novel and lead a discussion.

Whitney has spent most of her adult life in other parts of the United States, but her imagination has always lived in the South, homeland of her childhood. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2017.

As a freelance journalist, she’s published articles in magazines and newspapers, including St. Anthony Messenger, The Kansas City Star, and Antique Week. Her website is SallyWhitney.com.