When is it time to say goodbye?
For twelve years Ann McCray has not had a kiss from her husband or heard him say, “I love you.” He has been in a coma since a tragic car accident, and now Ann is approaching forty, childless in their dream house. When she took her vows of “in sickness and in health,” she never imagined this.
Tom Nash has just moved in next door with his teenaged daughter. Back in his glory days, Tom knew how to pitch a no-hitter, but he’s never been good with women. His purple-haired daughter Mer baffles him more than anyone. She needs some maternal guidance, and she’s not getting it from her self-absorbed mother.
As Ann finds herself drawn to Tom and his daughter, there may be hope for a new life with her new neighbor-if she can reconcile the dividing lines between love and loyalty.
Ellen Markham, as her best friend affirms, just got handed the dream of half of the wives in America: her husband just told her to have an affair.
With her CEO husband, her kids, and her house keeping her busy, passion was never Ellen’s first priority. But somehow her husband managed to make time in his schedule for it – with other women. Now he wants Ellen to believe that his reckless liaisons were nothing more than “just sex.” In fact, he’s so desperate to prove his point that he’s challenged her to find out for herself.
After so many years, Ellen is hauling out her rusty flirting skills and following her free-spirited best friend into a world she thought she’d left behind at the altar. She might not have any more faith in this marriage, but she’s about to find some in herself – and what starts out as “just sex” might end up being a second chance to find something better…
