Laura Pruden

After a tumultuous breakup with her powerful wine importer ex, struggling wine rep Rachel fights to carve out her own place in New York’s cutthroat beverage world—all while battling a fragile sobriety, temptation, and the ghosts of her past.

On the eve of New York City’s controversial “No Dancing” Law getting repealed, the lives of several strangers are forever changed by a shooting at a historic jazz bar in Harlem.

A circle of thirty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to celebrate the same sex wedding of a member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to behave themselves, a series of surprise plans, unexpected arrivals and exposed secrets lead to an explosion of drama that, coupled with the flammable combination of hurt feelings, unresolved tensions, and lots of wine cannot be contained.

Things spiral out of control in a high school in Manhattan when a terrible accident involving a science experiment injures a kid for life.

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.