Cutting teeth
(Book)

"New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby feels like the past five years of her life have been deovted to nothing but her children, and she isn't sure she can take one more spilled sippy cup or wild tantrum. She and her best mommy friends, Mary Beth and Rhea, are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood--their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when, along with the usual sniffles and colds, an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy preschool: the kids are craving blood. Then a teacher is found dead, and the only potential witnesses are ten adorable, sweet, gap-toothed, bloodsucking four-year-olds. Soon it becomes clear that the children are not just witnesses, but also suspects . . . and so are their secret-keeping mothers. As the police begin to look more closely, the children's ability to bleed their parents dry becomes deadly serious. Part murder mystery, part motherhood manifesto, Cutting Teeth explores the standards society holds mothers to--along with the ones to which they hold themselves--and the things no one tells you about becoming a parent"--