Claire Dalton, a maestro of reputation management in Chicago’s PR world, moves through life with wit, competence, and carefully earned ease. With her close circle of friends, she navigates scandals and triumphs, ambition and intimacy, in a rhythm of social scenes and quieter moments of reckoning.

Living With Caution Cones is a novel about companionship, personal recalibration, and the subtle art of paying attention—where love, loyalty, and laughter endure even as the path forward shifts.