Friends 2 Lovers: A Seat at the Table

A year after the operating room, Claude and Kelly Richards are expecting their third child and learning to live with the truth about the man who raised Claude. Then an invitation arrives that Anthony cannot refuse: Father's Day dinner on Key Biscayne, at the home of the silver-haired man the family knows only as Papa, the man whose favors once brought Kelly home alive.

The table is beautiful. The booster seats are already set out. Little Lori runs straight to the old man with her arms up, and Valerie Dixon realizes her daughter has been here before. Reggie will not look at Julian, the grandson who quietly sets every chair. And in a library at the end of a long hall, Anthony is told that the debt is paid, and given advice that sounds a great deal like an order: when the grand jury asks who this man is, he is to say what he always has. He does not know.

But Anthony promised his family no more lies, and a federal subpoena is coming. With Claude standing beside him, Kelly guarding the children, and Clinton preparing for a rematch the whole city is watching, the Richards family has to decide what honesty will cost. In A Seat at the Table, how do you tell the truth about a man who has never told anyone his name?