Karen, a wife who has been cheating on her husband, fights to keep family together after her husband discovers her secret, but when tragedy strikes, Karen must decide if she is willing sacrifice her happiness for her husband's love.

"On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires ... But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a secret, his methods more so. No one besides him and his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that made him famous. For most of Henry's life, it hasn't been a problem....

A collection of seven critical essays on Hawthorne's novel, arranged in chronological order of original publication.

Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the Washington Post, FATAL DISTRACTION tells the untold story of the high-profile Georgia murder trial of Justin Ross Harris following the hot car death of his toddler son in 2014.

Brief encounter: A married social worker and a married doctor meet in a railway station and are captivated by each other. Tamarind seed: A man and woman from opposite sides of the Cold War fall for each other while on vacation in the Caribbean.

"Fixes an unflinching eye on the nearly perfect marriage of Flora and Simon Beaufort at the moment it goes haplessly awry."--Jacket.

Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails. Rumbling across America, Del is soon...

When her husband's indiscretion with a young staffer threatens to ruin everything she has accomplished, Jody Asher, the wife of a political icon, flips the narrative as the balance of power shifts when he suddenly dies, securing the future she's entitled to despite her secret.

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and the young wife of a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receives letters from her husband, they burn them together. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their affair, even when it causes a scandal. Instead, they can only hurtle towards...