From Bustle:

A contemporary Sense and Sensibility retelling, Lauren Edmondson’s Ladies of the House centers on widowed mother Cricket and her adult daughters, Daisy and Wallis. While still mourning the death of Cricket’s husband, the late Sen. Gregory Richardson, the women learn that the man they loved was embezzling political donations to fund a lengthy extramarital affair. Pushed out of their home and reviled in D.C., the little family must find a way to reinvent themselves in this tender novel.